Senior Product Designer

About Smartcat

Smartcat is on a mission to become the wall-to-wall Language AI platform, addressing the diverse needs in multilingual content for various user personas within global enterprises.

Smartcat is uniquely positioned within the $100+ billion multilingual content industry, which is currently served by tens of thousands of agencies. This results in a highly fragmented and inefficient supply chain, high costs, unacceptable turnaround times, and quality issues. Using highly qualified internal resources to translate or create multilingual content (insourcing) solves the quality problem for enterprises, but if done manually, it can't solve for scalability, high cost, and slow turnaround.

Smartcat changes the ROI equation in favor of insourcing with its Language AI platform for enterprise end-users. It delivers high-quality, instantaneous AI translations or generates new content in any language by tapping into a customer-specific multilingual content library. The AI output is further refined through human editing by the client's internal reviewers or experts from the Smartcat's embedded global marketplace of linguists and content editors. This AI output continuously improves through the editing feedback loop, ensuring consistent and customer-tailored results.

More than 1,000 global companies including ~20% of the Fortune 1,000 trust Smartcat to communicate their innovations and ideas all over the world.

As a dynamic Series C company, Smartcat is growing at 130% YoY, thanks to the high and quick ROI it delivers to global enterprises. It's well-funded by notable VCs, and is capital efficient, offering a unique blend of hyper-growth potential with downside protection and the capacity for long-term planning and strategy.

Why You Should Join Our Team

As a Product Designer at Smartcat, you won’t just create UI — you’ll be a key strategic partner in an empowered product team. You'll drive the future of user experience for a platform that reshapes how global content is created, localized, and delivered. This is your chance to leave your mark on a $100B+ industry and help shape a category-defining product alongside an ambitious, highly skilled, and globally distributed team.

Mission

To redefine and elevate the experience of multilingual content creation by partnering with product and engineering to build intuitive, intelligent, and scalable solutions that our users love.

Outcomes

• Partner deeply with Product Managers and Engineers as a key member of an empowered product team — from problem discovery to solution delivery — contributing to strategy, shaping outcomes, and ensuring exceptional user experience.
• Conduct in-depth user research, run usability tests, and gather feedback to inform and validate design decisions.
• Create wireframes, low-fidelity drafts, and interactive prototypes that bring design concepts to life.
• Build and maintain a design system and style guide to ensure consistency and a seamless experience across the platform.
• Deliver high-quality, pixel-perfect designs for web and mobile that engage and delight users.
• Iterate rapidly based on user insights, feedback, and changing project needs.
• Proactively explore and apply new tools and technologies — including AI — to improve design quality, speed, and user understanding.
• Continuously evolve our design practices and bring fresh, creative approaches to problem-solving.

How You’ll Ramp

By Day 30

• Understand our product, customers, and business goals.
• Get up to speed on our design system, tools, and processes.
• Partner with your PM and Engineering leads to align on current priorities and areas of focus.

By Day 60

• Lead user research and validation activities for your area.
• Start delivering design artifacts for upcoming product initiatives.
• Proactively suggest improvements to design process or tools.

By Day 90

• Own design execution in your product area end-to-end.
• Contribute to shaping product strategy with insights and design perspective.
• Introduce or pilot one new tool, method, or workflow that helps level up design quality or velocity.

What You’ve Accomplished (Qualifications)

• Proven Product Designer with a portfolio that sets the industry standard.
• Expert-level skills in Figma.
• Strong advocate for user-centered design and deep understanding of usability principles.
• Ability to clearly communicate design decisions to both designers and non-designers.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Familiarity with UI animation, HTML, CSS, and front-end development is a plus.
• Data-driven mindset with the ability to support design choices with metrics and research.
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate design, prototyping, or research is a plus.
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for experimenting with new tools and technologies, especially AI.
• High integrity and full commitment to quality and outcomes.
• Growth-oriented, product-focused mindset.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment with a strong sense of ownership.
• Receptive to feedback and open to diverse perspectives.

Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far

• Fully remote team
  We are a global team of 200+ enthusiastic people spread across 30+ countries. We have been fully remote since 2020, with some locations populated with more Smartcaters than others, such as Boston, NYC, SF, the Bay Area, London, and Lisbon.
• Innovating a $100 Billion industry
  Smartcat’s innovative approach towards multilingual content, taps into a $100B industry. Our platform enables enterprise end users to stop using traditional outsourcing methods, and start enjoying an easy-to-use, AI-powered SaaS, that delivers immediate high-quality results, at a fraction of the cost.
• High impact role enabling innovation and inclusion in organizations
  You will enjoy building with us. You will drive changes in how an old-fashioned global language industry operates while improving how hundreds of thousands of people work and millions of people exchange knowledge and ideas worldwide.
• Join the rocketship to scale-up 10x and beyond together
  We are looking for someone to become an integral part of our team and play a crucial role in the most exciting part of our journey: transitioning from a post-Series C startup to a company exceeding $100M in ARR and $1B in valuation. Our journey isn’t for the faint of heart. We are growing at 130% YoY, thanks to our strong product-market fit and high-performing team, and plan to accelerate from here.
• Smartcat Culture: Where Diversity Meets High PerformanceAt Smartcat, we are committed to building a culture that highlights respect and appreciation for each individual's unique background and perspective, while maintaining a strong focus on results and clear, honest and direct communication. We believe in welcoming everyone and fostering an inclusive environment where team members can be their authentic selves at work. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is steadfast, and we stand firmly against discrimination and harassment.