Founding Product Designer

Traba is using AI and the internet to modernize the light industrial industry. Today, we're using our marketplace to connect manufacturing and distribution facilities throughout the US with reliable and hard working temp labor. This creates more profitable and productive businesses, and better career opportunities for our workers. We’re proud to be backed by the world’s best investors: Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial and experienced product designer to help us reimagine the antiquated staffing industry. Our product isn’t an app; it’s the labor we deploy into warehouses and manufacturing facilities throughout the country (and eventually, the world). In addition to collaborating with software engineers, you’ll also work closely with our field teams to design practical on-the-floor solutions for our light industrial customers. This role reports to our Head of Product (who is also a designer) and brings over 20 years of Series A through D experience from some of the world’s most iconic and successful tech brands. You will also partner closely with our founders and leadership team to bring our product vision to life.

About You:

• Champion the user. You speak in journeys, slay friction, and always love adding a good default to form. You are a fierce advocate for Usability and Accessibility

• First-principles thinking. You spend as much time thinking about “why” as you do “how.”

• Impeccable design craft. You have excellent taste and attention to detail. You appreciate how small nuanced interactions can create seamless and intuitive interfaces.

• Systems thinker. You’ll be an author of our design system, defining the foundational UI patterns, governance and process for our FE engineering and design teams.

• Inventive and scrappy. You can use design to solve any problem: hardware, software, service, and some good ol’ fashioned tape and glue. 

• Deeply collaborative. You’ll work closely with everyone around the company, as well as our users, to form and solve a wide variety of ideas and problems.

• Intuitive, adaptable, humble. You thrive in a fast-paced, always-growing environment. You structure ambiguity, iterating quickly and without ego to the best solution.

You Will:

• Architect and steward our design system and brand identity

• Solve operational problems with a mix of hardware, software and service design

• Push a lot of pixels in Figma - software is the primary lever for scaling manual ops

• Quickly prototype your work to help your colleagues evaluate your designs

• Evolve the business and worker experience in our native and web apps

• Scale manual ops efforts using our Ops Console (internal-facing software)

• Deeply understand, frame and visualize the needs of our businesses and workers

• Visualize abstractions (like the flow of data in our systems) to facilitate input and action

• Bootstrap user research to quickly validate concepts and usability

• Socialize your work feely and solicit plenty of feedback

You Have:

• 5-15 years of in-house software design experience.

• A demonstrable track record of solving complex UX and UI problems.

• Mastery of software design tools (e.g., Figma).

• Built and/or significantly contributed to multiple design systems.

• Strong understanding of how software is built (ideally, you can code).

• Experience validating your designs with informal usability testing.

• Evidence of shipping features and user experiences that have moved the needle.

• Desire to work at a startup and cover a very large surface.

• A strong and ambitious work ethic, ideally the drive to make a dent.

• Eternally optimistic and pleasant to work with.

Benefits:

• 📈 Start-up equity

• 💰 Competitive Salary

• 🩺 100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage

• 🍽️ Dinner Provided via Grubhub & stocked kitchen for NY employees

• 🚍 Commuter benefit

• 🎤 Team building events

• 🏋🏽 Gympass Benefit

• 🌴 Flexible PTO

• ✚✚ Additional: One Medical Membership, Gympass, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health

Salary Range Details

The compensation range for this position is set between $150,000-$200,000, reflecting our market analysis and other relevant considerations. However, exceptions may be made for candidates with qualifications that significantly differ from those outlined in the job description.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Traba is dedicated to promoting Equal Opportunity employment practices. We evaluate all applicants without discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristics that are legally protected by local, state, or federal regulations. We encourage applicants from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets.

What is light industrial labor?

15% of the world's workforce is engaged in the light industrial sector. These workers are involved in the production, assembly, and quality control of consumer goods and components. Their tasks often include operating machinery, assembling products, inspecting goods for defects, and packaging finished items. This work typically occurs in factories or manufacturing facilities and involves less heavy machinery and raw materials compared to heavy industry. The focus is on producing goods efficiently and maintaining high standards of quality.
Our Core Values:

Dream Big
We are on a path to change the world for the better. We create and communicate a bold direction that inspires a life-changing vision. We don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results.
Customer Obsession
We go the extra mile for our workers and businesses. We remain focused on delivering high-quality products and services that solve this massive and overlooked industries’ problems.
Growth Mindset
We confront the toughest challenges head-on and persevere. Sometimes we fail, but we brush ourselves off, adapt, learn, and push forward with resilience.

Olympian’s Work Ethic
Changing the world never comes easy. We work harder, longer, and smarter, not just two out of three. We put everything we have on the field.

Compensation Range: $150K - $200K