Product Designer/Sr. Product Designer

Matterworks is focused on making the invisible aspects of human biology legible through innovative technology. As a Product Designer/Sr. Product Designer, you will shape the user experience of their application layer for biochemical data, collaborating closely with scientists and engineers to create intuitive designs and reusable components.

Responsibilities:

• Iterate at high velocity: Produce dozens of design explorations through sketching, Figma, and coded prototypes in tools like Claude and v0
• Craft beautiful final designs: Bring final work to a high bar of polish in typography, hierarchy, and interaction
• Build reusable components: Turn recurring patterns into components that compose across the web app, MCP, and agentic surfaces
• Understand users deeply: Stay close to scientists through user interviews, customer calls, and session replay reviews
• Collaborate across the team: Work with PM, engineers, and scientists to align on user needs and tradeoffs

Requirements:

• A portfolio that demonstrates end-to-end ownership of complex product surfaces alongside systems thinking (reusable patterns, components, or design primitives). Please include a portfolio link with your application
• Genuine love for the craft of design. You sweat the details because you can't help yourself, study products you admire, and find joy in the work itself
• Strong self-direction. You can take a brief, run with it independently, and come back with credible progress without close supervision
• Experience designing data-dense interfaces (tables, plots, dashboards)
• Curiosity about scientific domains. You don't need a biology background, but you should be excited to learn about mass spectrometry, omics, and the workflows of lab scientists
• Comfort pairing with engineers through implementation, not just at handoff
• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias for shipping. You'd rather get something in front of users in a day and iterate than design in isolation for a week
• Fluency in Figma, rapid-prototyping tools (Claude, v0, Cursor, or similar), and clear written communication
• Experience designing AI-powered, agentic, or model-driven products is a plus, especially work that spans multiple surfaces or modalities