Product Designer

Chalk is a data platform focused on enhancing machine learning applications, recently raising a $50 million Series A. They are seeking a Product Designer to define user interactions across their web and CLI tools, collaborating closely with engineers and founders to create intuitive interfaces.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with engineers and founders to navigate the problem space, define requirements, prototype solutions, and ship polished experiences (we do not have product managers)
• Own UI/UX end-to-end, from concept to high-fidelity mocks to implementation
• Actively gather feedback from peers and users (mostly engineers and data scientists) to validate designs and rapidly iterate
• Balance speed and polish, with a bias to making pragmatic trade-offs to ship fast and learn
• Help start the design system: components, patterns, and principles that scale with the team
• Within your first 7 days, ship designs ready for implementation

Requirements:

• 5+ years of full-time design experience
• Portfolio that showcases shipped work
• Comfort building for an engineering persona, with enough technical literacy to discuss APIs, data flows, and constraints
• A collaborative mindset – low ego about your designs and open to feedback
• Strong communication skills – articulate design decisions clearly and ask clarifying questions to align on context or feedback
• Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment, where 'just enough process' is the goal and without a formal PM structure or formal product documentation
• Fluent in Figma
• Experience designing for developer tools or data-heavy B2B products
• Familiarity with SQL, Python, data engineering, or machine-learning workflows
• Dabbled with front-end code (HTML/CSS, React, or TypeScript)