Founding Product Designer

Join GovWell, a fast-growing startup focused on improving government operations through technology. As the Founding Product Designer, you will be responsible for ensuring product coherence and usability as the platform scales. You will define shared interaction patterns, terminology, workflow foundations, and design systems that allow teams to execute quickly without fragmenting the user experience. This role requires a strong background in designing complex, workflow-heavy SaaS products and a passion for improving government operations.

Missions

• Assurer la cohérence et l'utilisabilité du produit à mesure que la plateforme se développe, en définissant des modèles d'interaction partagés, des flux de travail de référence et des systèmes de conception.
• Collaborer étroitement avec la gestion de produit et l'ingénierie pour façonner les flux de travail principaux, réduire la complexité pour les utilisateurs gouvernementaux et garantir que la rapidité n'entrave pas la clarté ou l'utilisabilité.
• Concevoir des flux de travail gouvernementaux clés de bout en bout, en comprenant profondément comment le personnel opère dans des domaines tels que les permis, les inspections, les licences, la planification et les paiements.

Profil recherché

- Proven ability to design and ship quickly alongside empowered engineers, shaping solutions early, iterating in tight loops, and creating design foundations that scale across teams

- Strong product judgment and bias toward simplicity, consistently identifying the highest-leverage usability and coherence problems and reducing complexity in high-stakes operational software

- 5+ years designing complex, workflow-heavy SaaS products, with experience owning end-to-end flows across interconnected surfaces rather than isolated screens

- Strong systems-level designer with a track record of defining reusable interaction patterns, workflow primitives, and design systems that prevent fragmentation as products scale

- Interest or experience in govtech or public-sector workflows is a strong plus; demonstrated ability to learn complex operational domains quickly is required

- Highly fluent in AI-native design and prototyping workflows; actively uses modern AI tools to explore ideas quickly, validate workflows, and unblock engineering with lightweight design assets