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Our links use eye-safe lasers propagating between two terminals to transmit high-speed data wirelessly. Lead the charge in bringing our groundbreaking wireless optical communication to the world. Join us to light the way toward bridging the digital divide and illuminating the future.\nAbout the Role\nThis role will shape how field technicians, partners, and internal teams interact with Taara’s products. UX Designer at Taara will bring structure to ambiguity, define user journeys and workflows, and ensure our products are intuitive, efficient, and grounded in real user needs. You’ll work closely with product and engineering to translate complex technical concepts into clear experiences that reduce friction, build trust and create delight.\nIn this role, success looks like making Taara’s tools simpler and clearer despite underlying tech complexity, establishing UX as a strategic function, and maintaining a design system that acts as a single source of truth to accelerate development. Additionally, you will drive a data-informed culture through research and usability findings, ensuring Taara’s products and marketing deliver a cohesive experience for customers and partners.\nHow you will make 10x impact:\nDesign clear, end-to-end workflows for complex technical tasks.\n\nConduct user research to understand real-world needs, pain points, and mental models; turn insights into actionable design direction.\n\nAdvocate for the full user experience. This includes understanding and addressing the real workflows around ordering, receiving, installation, setup, configuration, usage, monitoring, troubleshooting, support, and ongoing management.\n\nContribute to and maintain Taara’s design system, including components, patterns, templates, interactions, and visual guidelines that ensure consistency across products and support future development efficiency.\n\nDevelop information architecture, interaction models, and navigation that make technical processes understandable and predictable for all user roles.\n\nCollaborate with product and engineering to clarify requirements, refine workflows, validate feasibility, and ensure UX decisions reflect real-world behaviors and constraints.\n\nRun usability testing to validate assumptions and data-based design decisions.\n\nSupport cross-product and cross-team alignment, helping maintain consistency between Taara’s software tools, operational workflows, and marketing/customer-facing materials.\n\nCommunicate UX direction through flows, prototypes, wireframes, narratives, and design artifacts that help teams understand the problem, the user, and the solution.\n\nBring an AI-native approach to the work, using AI where appropriate for research synthesis, content, and rapid iteration, and collaborating with engineers inside the same AI tooling.\n\nWhat you should have:\n5+ years of UX design experience\n\nAbility to create information architecture, workflow diagrams, user journeys, and prototypes.\n\nStrong experience with design systems, including building, maintaining, and driving adoption.\n\nAbility to conduct user research and usability testing and synthesize findings into actionable insights.\n\nSkilled in prototyping, low- to high-fidelity, for both exploration and communication.\n\nExperience applying data-driven decision making and running structured feedback loops.\n\nSkilled in presenting design rationale, facilitating cross-functional working sessions, and communicating UX decisions through clear storytelling\n\nIt would be great if you also had these:\nFamiliarity with startup environments, managing ambiguity, and adapting quickly to new information.\n\nLocation & Compensation:\nAbility to work in the Sunnyvale office at least 3 days per week.\n\nThe US base salary range for this full-time position is $140,000-$160,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. 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