Senior Product Designer, Driverless Operations

This is not a typical product design role. Youll design workflows where a human decision can pull a 40-ton truck off the road or send it back into traffic. The tension between operational tools speed and safety-critical decision-making is what makes this seat unique.

Youll join as the second product designer at Waabi working closely with the first (your hiring manager) to establish design culture systems and processes as the team grows. Youll ship designs in code from your first week. And will grow to own the full human-to-robot experience designing everything from fleet management software to the interior and exterior interfaces of our AVs.

You will

- Design fleet management and remote assistance workflows: Define and design the end-to-end workflows that operations staff use to monitor dispatch and intervene with AVs in real time. This includes dashboards pre-mission checks remote assistance and the operational procedures that connect them.

- Observe users in their actual environment: Take a first-principles approach to design by stepping out of the office. You will observe users terminal staff and fleet operators in their actual environments to gain deep insights into their workflows and streamline processes.

- Design for AI and Automation: Define how humans interact with highly capable AI systems creating intuitive workflows for fleet tracking vehicle dispatch remote assistance and on-the-ground operational exception handling.

- Build and extend our design system: Contribute to and expand Waabis shared system to maintain consistency and scalability across all product surfaces.

- Ship directly in code:Youll contribute to production React codebases using AI-assisted tools (Copilot Cursor) not hand off static specs. The shipped product is the deliverable.

Collaborate across product engineering and operations: Work with PMs engineers researchers and operations teams to define requirements and translate them into effective design solutions.

Qualifications:

- Experience building complex tools: 5 years experience designing for information dense complex ecosystems (e.g. healthtech dev tools or logistics). We value your ability to untangle complexity over your specific industry background.

- Own complexity and execute end-to-end: You can break down messy problems and drive from discovery through delivery with clear user-centric thinking.

- First-principles thinker: You dont just rely on standard patterns. You strip problems down to their fundamental truths to build intuitive tools for entirely new paradigms.

- Hands-on and curious: You are comfortable in ambiguous environments and excited to build in domains you may not be familiar with. You are eager to understand the realities of logistics hardware integrations and autonomous tech.

- Strong design craft and judgment: You raise the bar push for excellence and balance visual polish with usability making smart user-centered tradeoffs.

- A builders mindset: You design in code are comfortable with component libraries and see AI-assisted coding as a natural way of iterating. You know the shipped product is a key measure of success.

Bonus:

- AV / Robotics / Logistics Background: Prior experience in autonomous vehicles robotics or logistics operations (e.g. time at Waymo Cruise Aurora Nuro or a freight/logistics company).

- Real-time Interfaces: Experience designing for real-time monitoring dispatch or command-and-control interfaces.

- Physical Operations: Background that touches industrial design hardware interfaces or physical operations environments (terminals warehouses test tracks).

- Scaling Products Externally: Experience designing products that transitioned from prototype/internal usage to customer/external-facing demonstrating the ability to scale designs for broader user adoption.