About the position
Pilot is seeking a Senior Product Designer to help shape the future of our product experiences. In this role, you’ll take ownership of key product areas, collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, and Operations, as well as design elegant, user-centered solutions that solve real problems. You’ll be instrumental in raising the quality of our design work and will contribute to both strategy and execution. Our team is building products that solve meaningful problems for startups and small businesses every day: giving them real-time insights into the health of their business, giving them close control and visibility into their books, and providing tools for making strategic business and financial decisions that help them save or make money. Pilot’s aim is to provide our customers with the same superpowers as large companies with full finance teams — superpowers that include having a deep understanding of financial health of the business, the machinery to constantly improve it, and the predictive abilities to thoughtfully plan for the future. We do this at a fraction of the cost a large company would pay for this, by delivering these capabilities through powerful software. This is a hybrid position with the expectation to work in the San Francisco office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations leadership, to drive product decisions and roadmap priorities.
- Take ownership of the entire product design process, ensuring seamless and delightful interactions across all touchpoints within your product and service areas.
- Design within an established design system and contribute to the evolution of new design standards across Pilot.
- Deliver thoughtful solutions and detailed specs that are ready for implementation.
- Collaborate with internal/external users to conduct interviews and gather data to inform design decisions as needed.
- Maintain unparalleled excellence in visual and interaction design, encompassing information architecture, visual hierarchy, accessibility, and thoughtful layout.
Requirements
- 5+ years of impactful experience in product/UX design or a related field.
- Previous experience with accounting, finance, tax tools, small business SaaS, or a background in founding/designing within early-stage product environments is highly preferred.
- Skilled at simplifying complex systems to achieve human-centric solutions that balance simplicity and functionality.
- Strong attention to detail in information architecture, visual hierarchy, typography, and layout.
- You understand how exceptional design directly drives key product metrics, elevates customer satisfaction, and ultimately achieves impactful company outcomes.
- You are inherently collaborative, a natural communicator, insatiably curious, genuinely humble—and possess a natural talent for influencing effectively across diverse functions.
Benefits
- Flexible vacation/time-off policy
- All federal holidays are observed
- Competitive benefits package including wellness benefits such as Modern Health, Headscape, One Medical, Aaptiv and Rightway
- Parental leave for birthing or non-birthing parents – 100% pay for 12 weeks
- 401(k) plan
- Equity options for full-time regular positions
