Product Designer (Contract)

Poka Labs builds AI agents for chemical and industrial manufacturers that support quoting, product discovery, and pricing decisions. The contract product designer will design intuitive workflows and features for quoting and pricing products, translating requirements and customer feedback into implementation-ready designs while collaborating with founders and engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Build enough understanding of our product and customers to make decisions in context
• Turn requirements, customer feedback, and conversations into clear user flows and concrete designs
• Identify missing requirements, edge cases, and tradeoffs before engineering starts building
• Produce implementation-ready screens, prototypes, and concise interaction notes
• Work with engineers through implementation and refine designs based on feedback
• Establish reusable patterns where they help us build more consistently

Requirements:

• You're an experienced product designer with strong UX judgment and a track record of making complex software easier to use
• Experience designing B2B software with substantial workflows, tables, approvals, or other information-heavy interfaces
• The ability to reason through an ambiguous product problem and explain your decisions
• Good instincts for hierarchy, progressive disclosure, and helping users understand what to do next
• A practical approach to working with a small engineering team: you know where detail matters and when a straightforward solution is enough
• The independence to get up to speed, ask focused questions, and move work forward
• Comfort using AI tools to explore ideas and accelerate delivery while applying your own design judgment
• Chemical industry experience isn't required
• Experience with AI products or early-stage startups is helpful