Staff Product Designer

Who We Are

We started our company to help others launch and run their own businesses, at any stage. The way we help is by keeping it simple and supporting entrepreneurs one step at a time. Put simply: our mission is to enable anyone to start, run, and grow their business while avoiding the common pitfalls that derail hopeful entrepreneurs. No more having to wade through forms, taxes, or ongoing state compliance. 

We are a remote company based in Austin, Texas. We have team members from Florida to Oregon and all points in-between. Take pride in your work knowing that it shapes how people all across the country reach their goal of starting, running, and growing their business.  

If the idea of helping people and working with a genuinely caring, supportive team excites you, then you’ve come to the right place.

The Role

We're looking for a Staff Product Designer to help shape the future of how we design and build at ZenBusiness—someone who brings deep technical fluency, design systems thinking, and a genuine curiosity about emerging technology.

This role is ideal for a designer who is energized by the intersection of craft and capability—someone who sees AI and automation not as replacements for design judgment, but as amplifiers of it. You're comfortable with code, excited by experimentation, and believe the best design tools and systems are the ones that get out of the way so teams can focus on solving real problems.

Initially, you'll focus on scaffolding AI-driven automation for our design system—working closely with the VP of Design and Engineering partners to build workflows that increase quality, consistency, and velocity across teams. As this work stabilizes, you'll shift toward product innovation, applying the same technical depth and strategic thinking to evolving our platform experience through rapid prototyping and enhancing our tooling.

This role is hands-on, collaborative, and forward-looking — with space to mentor others, shape how we work, and influence the practice of design at ZenBusiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of AI-driven automation and tooling for our design system — including automated component generation, design-to-code workflows, token management, accessibility checking, and other innovations that improve efficiency and quality
• Partner closely with Engineering to build and implement technical solutions, bringing a strong understanding of front-end development (HTML/CSS/JS) and implementation constraints to design decisions
• Experiment extensively with generative AI, identifying opportunities to integrate emerging technologies into design workflows, rapid prototyping, and product features
• Contribute to ZenBusiness's AI-powered product offerings, bringing a design perspective and technical understanding to shape experiences that feel coherent and thoughtful
• Collaborate with Design Systems and Brand partners to ensure automation and tooling reinforce brand guidelines, personality, and coherence across the platform
• Mentor designers and share knowledge across the team — helping others understand new tools, workflows, and approaches while fostering a culture of curiosity and continuous improvement
• Bring clarity to ambiguity by defining thoughtful paths forward, identifying opportunities, and rallying cross-functional partners around shared direction
• Advocate for experience quality and technical excellence, setting a high bar for craft, judgment, and innovation
• Explore and evaluate emerging technologies, forming opinionated views on how to incorporate them effectively into day-to-day work
• Build and maintain Figma plugins or similar tools that extend our design capabilities and streamline workflows

What We’re Looking For

• A designer with strong technical fluency — comfortable with code (HTML/CSS/JS) and able to work at the intersection of design and implementation
• Extensive experience experimenting with generative AI and a deep understanding of how to leverage it for design system automation, productivity gains, and rapid prototyping
• A track record of building or contributing to design systems, tooling, and workflows that scale across teams
• Genuine curiosity about emerging technologies, with the ability to separate signal from noise and apply new capabilities thoughtfully
• A bias for action paired with strategic thinking — someone who addresses challenges head-on with a plan rather than waiting for direction
• Strong design judgment and craft sensibility, ensuring technical solutions elevate rather than compromise experience quality
• A collaborative mindset and desire to mentor others, sharing knowledge, and helping elevate the overall capability and standards of the team
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and leading through influence, building trust and momentum across Product, Engineering, Brand, and Design partners
• Experience with Figma plugins, design-to-code tools, or similar technical design tooling is a strong plus
• Prior experience in UI engineering, design technology, or front-end development is highly valued

Why This Role Matters

ZenBusiness is at an inflection point — evolving our platform, deepening trust with customers, and integrating new capabilities across the product. This role plays a pivotal part in ensuring our product experience remains clear, human, and cohesive as we grow.

You’ll have meaningful ownership, strong partnership, and the opportunity to shape how design shows up — not just in what we build, but in how we work together.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a senior product designer shipping complex, user-centered digital products
• Demonstrated ability to build or significantly contribute to design systems and technical design infrastructure
• Strong portfolio showing both design craft and technical problem-solving — ideally including examples of tooling, automation, or system-level thinking
• A history of working closely with Engineering partners to deliver thoughtful, high-quality experiences
• Hands-on experience with generative AI tools and a clear perspective on their effective application in design practice

Remote Culture. A great company culture leads to happy employees, and happy employees lead to happy customers. We provide our employees with good salaries, benefits, equity, and interesting challenges that have a positive impact. 

Let’s stay connected! We believe in staying connected, and we have a weekly “All Hands” meeting every week. We also have a social committee that hosts frequent events. We’ve held a virtual talent show, costume competitions, monthly lunch and learn series, Hackathons and more! 

Benefits.  The company offers various benefits to employees and their dependents, including medical, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance, as well as parental and military leave. Other benefits include an employee assistance program, 401k + match, annual bonus, pet insurance, and RSUs. Paid parking* and 10 paid holidays are also provided. 

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. We believe in diversity, equity & inclusion. At ZenBusiness, every voice counts no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, location, or background. We celebrate the diversity of our teams, knowing that our products, services, and customers thrive best when we lean into and celebrate our differences.

Please check out our careers' page to learn more about our culture, benefits, and open opportunities.

*applicable to in-office employees