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For the last 40 years, we have been developing software to help construction companies streamline their operations.Based in Sugar Land, TX, our mission is helping customers achieve excellence through our proven customer-centric, end-to-end solutions and exceptionally helpful service, while providing a great life for our employees. With this mission at the core of everything we do, HCSS is a pioneer and leader in the construction software space and a consistently recognized employer. We have earned Best Companies to Work for in Texashonors for 18consecutive years and have been named a USA Today Top Workplace. HCSS has also been recognized by Built Inas a Best Place to Work in Greater Houstonand by Construction Executivefor our technology innovation, reflecting our strong culture, industry leadership, and commitment to excellence.\nWHO WE NEED:\nAs a Product Designer I at HCSS, you are the primary advocate for our users and a core strategic partner within our Product team. You are driven by a strong curiosity to understand the complex workflows of the heavy civil construction and utilities industry, and you are passionate about designing solutions that make a tangible impact on the people building our world's infrastructure.\nIn this role, you will focus on discovering and validating the right problems to solve. You will partner directly with Group Product Managers, Product Managers, Technical Product Managers (TPMs), and other UX peers to conduct UX discovery and validation research as well as ideate solutions via wireframing, whiteboard, and proofs-of-concept.\nYou will advocate for the user's voice throughout the product lifecycle to ensure our solutions are highly valuable, impactful, and usable. You are empowered to focus on product strategy, user advocacy, and workflow validation.\nQualifications:\nA portfolio that demonstrates your critical thinking process, showing how you moved from an ambiguous user problem to validated structural wireframes (e.g., how you approach problem-solving, not UI).\nHigh comfort level with \"messy\" whiteboarding, rough sketching, and throwaway design work over high-fidelity polish.\nStrong proficiency in using AI tools alongside modern whiteboarding tools to rapidly generate proofs-of-concept and visualize ideas at a high velocity.\nExcellent communication and facilitation skills to collaborate effectively with Product members, actively participating in defining and gathering product requirements alongside them as well as presenting research findings clearly\nSolid understanding of user-centered design methodologies, including how to structure and synthesize user interviews and usability tests\nStrong proficiency in modern design and whiteboarding tools to rapidly visualize concepts\nA natural curiosity and willingness to dive deep into the highly technical and complex workflows of the heavy civil construction and utilities industry\nDemonstrates foundational UX discovery and workflow mapping skills, and thrives in the ambiguity of early-stage product definition\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Design, Psychology, HCI (or equivalent academic/bootcamp background) or ~2 years of relevant work experience \nExperience using research repositories or product discovery tools \nRole Responsibilities:\nPartner closely with Group Product Managers, Product Managers, and Technical Product Managers to understand business requirements, define user problems, and participate in upstream product strategy discussions.\nAssist in planning and conducting generative and evaluative research (e.g., user interviews, contextual inquiries, discovery interviews). Synthesize qualitative data to uncover actionable insights about heavy civil construction and utilities workflows.\nTranslate complex logic into structural wireframes, user flows, and low-to-mid fidelity proofs-of-concept to quickly visualize and test ideas.\nAct as the collaborative UX strategy and solutions partner with Product Management to help them visually map out their business logic.\nDesign and run usability tests on proposed workflows to validate that the solution is both valuable and intuitive for the end-user before any code is written.\nPackage validated user flows and research insights to collaborate with UX peers to ensure the core UX strategy is maintained as they review and curate the final design and specifications.\nContinuously build strong empathy for our unique user base (e.g., estimators, project managers, foremen, field personnel, mechanics, etc.), and advocate for their needs in every product conversation.\nTravel Requirements:\nInitial Onboarding: During the first 3 months of employment, employees (in the Houston area) must work on-site at the Sugar Land office 3 days per week to ensure comprehensive training and integration.\nHybrid RequirementsFollowing the initial onboarding phase, employees transition to a flexible hybrid work model. \nIf an on-site workspace is requested, employees are expected to work from the Sugar Land office up to 2 days per week, subject to team needs and manager discretion.\n\nRemote RequirementsFully remote employees are expected to visit the Sugar Land office periodically up to once a Quarter\nEmployees will be expected to attend HCSS-sponsored events per the manager’s discretion (e.g., UGM).\n\nBENEFITS & PERKS:\nPart of our mission is to provide a great life for our employees. We believe that when our people are happy, they do their best work. Some of the benefits and perks we offer include:\nFlexibility to work Remotely\nMedical, dental, and vision coverage with company-paid and employee-paid options\nPaid holidays, sick days, and personal time off\nEmployee Resource Groups (ERGs) that foster connection and inclusion\nOn-site amenities including a covered basketball court, soccer field, track, pickleball/tennis courts, gym, etc.\nDog-friendly campus and WiFi-accessible courtyards\n401(k) with a 5% company match\nCoverage for employee professional development and wellness\nAnd more!","description_format":"text","description_chars":6003,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"Polish","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Hybrid work","Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Fleet Management","Construction Management Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-23T00:02:51Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":87,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.869,"p_room":1,"age_days":9,"expected_fill_days":27,"reasons":["conf:3","velocity","win:early","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/hcss-product-designer-i","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/hcss-product-designer-i.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-25T11:20:05Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":16401,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-26T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":179869},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=179869"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fhcss-product-designer-i"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fhcss-product-designer-i"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fhcss-product-designer-i"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/hcss-product-designer-i\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fhcss-product-designer-i"}]}