Product Designer

Overview

Gather AI is seeking a Product Designer to be its first and only designer, owning design end to end for a new category of Physical AI software used by warehouse floor teams, from field research and information architecture to visual craft and working prototypes.

What you'll do

• Own design for the MHEV app: ramp fast and propose a v2 concept by month 3, then take full ownership of the product line.
• Design interfaces for people working directly with drones and forklifts, including tablet experiences used mid-shift, in noisy environments and under time pressure.
• Expand into the Sage dashboard as a second product line, shaping an AI insights product.
• Build on the foundations of the Gather design system and own it across dashboards and apps.
• Travel to customer sites to observe how people use the products in the field, and bring that context into design decisions.
• Partner closely with mobile and front-end engineering in Pittsburgh and Noida, from MHEV stand-ups and weekly requirements planning through handoffs.
• Use Claude and other AI tools to move from concept to functioning prototype, and design with an eye to how engineers will use your work with AI to build front ends faster.
• Over time, extend work to internal tools and the occasional piece of marketing material.

What you'll need

• A portfolio with strong, simple, modern design that holds up in data-dense interfaces, with close attention to typography and layout.
• Analytical rigor: turning data and requirements into clear information hierarchy, and showing how you knew a design worked through measures like task time, error rates or training time.
• Experience shipping real products at scale, with users in real workflows, where the thinking behind the screens can be seen.
• A desire to be the only designer, owning design end to end without a larger design team.
• Comfort using Claude or other AI tools to build working prototypes, not just static Figma designs.
• Experience designing through user research, having watched people work and changed what you built because of it.
• Figma fluency, or deep experience with a comparable design and prototyping tool.
• The ability to work without a lot of structure: spot what needs designing before being asked, and ask good questions when stuck.
• Willingness to travel about 20% of the time (roughly one trip a month) to customer warehouses and the Pittsburgh office.

Nice to have

• Experience designing interfaces for physical systems such as robotics, drones, industrial machinery or other non-desk environments.
• Founding or sole designer experience, ideally building 0-to-1 at a startup.
• A blend of consumer-grade polish and enterprise analytical depth.
• Experience building or maintaining a design system.
• Background in warehouse, logistics or fulfillment.
• 5 to 10 years of product or UX design experience. Strong candidates with less tenure who have shipped real products at scale are encouraged to apply.
• Experience with generative UI tools beyond Claude, or a software development background.

Details

• Location: open to remote within the USA; Pittsburgh, PA office.
• Travel: about 20%, roughly one trip a month, to customer sites in Houston and Dallas and to the Pittsburgh office.