Poka Labs, San Francisco, California
We want to be able to explain what a feature needs to accomplish and trust you to lead the design work, without requiring a founder to direct every screen.
Who we’re looking for
You’re an experienced product designer with strong UX judgment and a track record of making complex software easier to use.
Experience with AI products or early-stage startups is helpful. Chemical industry experience isn’t required.
How we’ll work together
This is a hands-on design role with direct access to the founders and engineers. We expect a weekly design touchpoint, with most collaboration happening asynchronously.
We prefer a monthly retainer based on an agreed scope and expected capacity. The starting commitment is approximately 10–15 hours per week, with scope and compensation agreed together. From there we can be more flexible!
Poka Labs · Remote · Part-time, approximately 10–15 hours per week
Poka Labs builds AI agents for chemical and industrial manufacturers. We help commercial teams turn customer requests into quotes, find the right products in large catalogs, and make better pricing decisions.
We’re a YC Summer 2024 company with a small engineering team and a growing product. We’re looking for an experienced contract product designer who can take a complicated workflow, ask the right questions, and turn it into something intuitive that our engineers can build.
We expect an initial engagement of one to two months, with the potential to continue or expand.
The work
Our customers work with tens of thousands of products, complex pricing, and multiple layers of review. We need to make that complexity manageable.
You’ll work directly with our technical co-founder, Andrew, to design new features and improve important workflows across our quoting and pricing products. Examples include:
The immediate priority is getting new features and core interactions right. Targeted improvements to the existing product will also be part of the work.
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