About Pelles
Pelles transforms trade contractors' knowledge, documents, and workflows into AI-powered systems. We're hiring our first product designer to set the design direction for the whole platform — every product surface, every agent interaction, every moment a customer trusts the software to make a decision.
Key Responsibilities
Own the design system and the product's overall visual and interaction language
Design AI-native interactions: citation chips, source previews, streaming responses, confirmation flows
Partner with engineering to ship high-craft features that hold up to real use on a jobsite
Build a research practice grounded in real customer time, not lab studies
Set the bar for craft as we hire more designers
Requirements
6+ years of product design experience, including senior IC work on technical products
A portfolio that shows real craft and a real point of view
Comfort working closely with engineering and AI research
Confidence picking up a new domain — construction — and learning it deeply
Bonus
Experience designing for technical or vertical industries
Design-system architecture experience
Familiarity with AI-native interaction patterns
What we offer
A founding role with meaningful equity
Real influence over the platform's design direction
A small team that takes design seriously
