Staff Product Designer

🏗️ About PermitFlow

PermitFlow is redefining how America builds. Pre-construction remains one of the most broken and manual parts of the $1.6T construction industry, causing massive delays, wasted capital, and lost opportunity across the built world. Our AI workforce delivers unprecedented speed, accuracy, and visibility to pre-construction — accelerating housing development, enabling clean-energy projects, and driving economic growth in communities nationwide. To date, we’ve powered over $20B in real estate development, helping builders and contractors move faster, reduce risk, and scale with confidence.

We’re entering hypergrowth with clear product-market fit and a world-class team from top AI and construction companies. We’ve raised over $36.5M from Kleiner Perkins, Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, Felicis Ventures, and Altos Ventures, alongside backers from OpenAI, Google, Procore, ServiceTitan, Zillow, PlanGrid, and Uber. We are on a mission is to modernize how the built world operates.

Our HQ is in New York City with a hybrid schedule (3 in-office days per week). We prefer NYC-based candidates or those open to relocation.

✅ What You’ll Do:

• Dive into the world of construction permitting and learn from our internal resources and team about how permitting works. Success requires our team becoming experts in construction permitting.
• Identify and assess opportunities for UX and visual improvements in the PF application
• Contribute to overall strategy and decision-making about product direction
• Lead end-to-end design projects and work closely with our customers, engineering, and other teams to design internal and customer-facing applications
• Help establish our early processes that advocate for a design-centric approach
• Collaborate with the sales and marketing team to produce sales collateral and branding material as needed
• Help us design a really amazing permitting product that is not only beautiful, but works and scales

✋ Requirements

• All applications must link to or include a portfolio. We’re looking for your ability to craft design solutions in relevant or related product areas and an ability to deliver high-quality design thinking and product design in a fast-paced environment
• 4+ years of experience designing software; we're especially looking for experience with B2B products and complex workflows but any experience building software interfaces applies.
• Our team primarily uses Figma, Notion, Linear. You should be comfortable with those or similar tooling.
• High tolerance for ambiguity. We are moving fast, and our design, product, and engineering processes are constantly in flux. We value team members that can roll with this messiness and contribute to discussions on how to constantly improve.
• Strong communication skills. Both designers and engineers and Permitflow spend time talking to internal and external stakeholders. 
• Technical competence. You don’t need to know how to code (although it’s a bonus) – but we value the ability to effectively communicate designs and decisions with engineers. It’s certainly not a requirement for the job, but the product team is very collaborative and being able to understand technical implications and trade-offs is a valuable skill.

💙 Benefits

• 📈 Equity packages
• 💰 Competitive Salary
• 🩺 100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage
• 💻 Company issued laptop
• 🎧 Home office & equipment stipend
• 🍽️ Lunch & Dinner provided via UberEats w/ a fully stocked kitchen
• 🚍 Commuter benefits
• 🎤 Team building events
• 🌴 Unlimited PTO