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Principal Product Designer

PermitFlow· Design
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Hybrid (New York City, NY)$250k - $300kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior individual contributor responsible for setting vision and craft for high-impact product surfaces, leading design for complex, AI-enabled permitting workflows and building scalable design systems.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design vision for our highest-impact product areas, from framing the problem through pixel-perfect execution.
  • Set the strategic direction for how permitting workflows, automation, and AI-assisted decisions are designed, ensuring users can read, trust, and guide the product's output.
  • Partner with the Head of Design, product, and engineering leadership to shape the roadmap, bringing a strong and well-reasoned point of view on where the product should go.
  • Raise the craft bar across the whole design team by modeling exceptional work, strengthening critique culture, and mentoring designers without managing them.
  • Evolve the design language and systems thinking to ship cohesive, scalable experiences as surface area grows.
  • Move between deep detail and big-picture direction while maintaining high quality and fast pace of execution.
  • Become a functional expert on construction permitting, licensing, and inspections, leading with curiosity.
  • Collaborate with sales and marketing on collateral and branding as needed to build a scalable permitting product that is beautiful and effective.

Qualifications

  • Portfolio link or inclusion is required with application.
  • 10+ years designing dense B2B software, with experience in workflow-heavy products and real complexity.
  • Ability to elevate the work of other designers, define what great looks like, and bring structure to undefined problem spaces.
  • Strong systems thinking with exceptional interaction and visual craft.
  • Experience designing AI-powered or highly technical products, or ability to make AI legible, trustworthy, and controllable for users.
  • High tolerance for ambiguity and ability to thrive in fast-moving environments.
  • Excellent communication and storytelling to align designers, engineers, executives, and customers.
  • Technical fluency and willingness to partner deeply with engineers; hands-on coding comfort is a plus.
  • Familiarity with Figma, Notion, Linear or similar tooling; ability to recommend tooling as horizon models emerge.

Skills

Required:Portfolio-driven design leadershipB2B product design for workflow-heavy softwareAI-powered product design

Benefits

  • Equal employment opportunities and inclusive workforce commitment (EEO)
  • Hybrid work schedule with NYC HQ
  • Compensation: $250K – $300K plus equity; actual compensation varies by location, level, experience, and skill set.
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About PermitFlow

TurboTax for Construction Permitting

Intuitive workflow software that helps general contractors and developers identify the optimal permitting process and needed application forms for a particular project, and then easily fill the relevant paperwork to prepare a robust application package.

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