Sr Product Designer

Kantata is building modern software for the professional services industry, and they are seeking a contract Senior Product Designer for a part-time engagement. This role focuses on executing high-impact design tasks, delivering polished design solutions, and collaborating with product management and engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver high-fidelity, spec-ready designs for defined features from user flow to final polish
• Work closely with PMs and Engineering to translate pre-defined project requirements into functional, scalable solutions
• Implement and leverage our established design system patterns to ensure consistency across your assigned product areas
• Design highly functional, net-new AI-driven workflows and improve targeted core product flows
• Create clear, comprehensive interaction models, UI states, edge cases, and handoff-ready specifications
• Use, adapt, and implement our existing Figma design system components efficiently without needing to rebuild or re-architect the system
• Collaborate closely with PMs and Engineers to rapidly resolve implementation details and edge cases
• Take a hands-on, self-directed approach to completing project deliverables with minimal oversight
• Focus on execution and delivery speed while maintaining a high standard of visual and interaction quality

Requirements:

• Strong command of UI states, complex multi-step workflows, and edge cases
• Deep expertise in mapping clear user intent to precise system responses
• Ability to organize complex, data-dense features into clear, intuitive hierarchies
• Expertise in structured navigation and mapping conceptual workflow models
• Ability to quickly master and work within an established, highly complex product ecosystem
• Skill in identifying and utilizing existing UI patterns to solve new design challenges
• Ability to clearly present design solutions and justify design decisions based on interaction best practices
• Strong portfolio demonstrating execution of complex B2B SaaS, data-dense, or platform products
• Advanced proficiency in Figma, with a strong background in utilizing established component libraries
• Familiarity with modern frontend concepts (React, components) to ensure seamless engineering handoffs
• Direct experience designing user interfaces for AI workflows (understanding deterministic vs. probabilistic system behavior)
• Experience working in high-velocity, contract, or agency environments where rapid onboarding and execution are required