Product Designer

Join Tavus, a fast-paced startup dedicated to bridging the human-machine divide. As a Product Designer, you will evolve our product suite and own the Tavus design systems. Your focus will be on consolidating, architecting, and elevating the design system, with the potential to evolve into ownership of a product area. You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and leadership, and drive adoption of the design system.

• Consolidate, architect, and elevate the design system into something stable, distinct, and built to scale.
• Establish the standards, documentation, and contribution model that keep the design system coherent as more designers and engineers touch it.
• Work hand-in-hand with frontend engineers to ensure the design system is implemented faithfully and effectively.
• This is a Product Design role that demands exceptional VisD skills and experience
• We need someone with exceptional eye and hand for typography, color, spacing, and detail, who can bring real motion craft to how our system feels in use. But the design system doesn't exist in a vacuum: It has to hold up under real product and UX problems, across a growing portfolio of products, so strong product design judgment is a must
• Original, not just tasteful. We're not looking for someone who can recognize good design when they see it; we're looking for someone who can produce something distinct that hasn't been seen before. If your portfolio could pass for a dozen other SaaS products, this isn't the right fit. We'll ask you to walk us through specific decisions and the reasoning behind them, and the results those decisions yielded
• Built for startup pace: You can operate with minimal specs and shifting priorities, protecting the highest quality bar while moving fast
• An indefatigable visual designer, with an exceptional, well-trained eye for typography, color, layout, and detail, plus real motion design chops
• Principled and able to defend it. You’re especially adept at articulating why a decision is correct. You push back on your own instincts as readily as you push back on others'
• Experienced building and governing design systems at scale. You can point to a system you've architected and evolved, not just contributed to, with bonus points for work both within an existing component framework as well as from-scratch builds
• Technically fluent: You're comfortable working close to code: reviewing implementation, catching and stopping drift between design and build, and speaking the language of the engineers who ship your system
• A genuinely capable product designer, with 6+ years of experience and solid UX judgment. You understand user flows, interaction patterns, and product tradeoffs well enough that your systems hold up with elegance under real product pressure
• Decisive in ambiguity: You don't need permission to make a call. When a system decision has no clean answer, you weigh the tradeoffs, make a defensible choice, and move, while staying meticulous about the details within that decision