About the Role
We are hiring a primary creative lead for FDM. As a Product Designer, you will own our visual identity and product design end-to-end, working closely with leadership, engineers, and customers. This includes leading the overall design and creative direction, building and launching marketing websites, and executing the full design lifecycle from concepting to shipping front-end interfaces.
Responsibilities
- Lead the overall design and creative direction of our company, from logos, brand identity, and marketing sites to our software products.
- Build, launch, and maintain marketing websites and landing pages using modern web technologies.
- Execute the full design lifecycle in a self-motivated and self-managed way, including: brand concepting, UI/UX discovery, rapid prototyping, and shipping front-end interfaces.
- Design our products at every level — from high-level conceptual design and landing pages to the microscopic aesthetics of software interfaces.
- Balance short-term priorities to solve immediate customer needs with long-term product strategy.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience across product design, web engineering, graphic design, or design consultancy environments.
- Great intuition for what users want and how to translate this into intuitive products and web experiences.
- Excellent sense of aesthetics, branding, typography, and attention to detail.
- Proficiency in design and motion tools (e.g., Figma, paper wireframes, Rive/Lottie) as well as modern front-end web tech (e.g., HTML/CSS, React, Next.js, Framer, Webflow).
- Exceptional ability demonstrated in work, school, side projects, or elsewhere.
- Excellent communication skills, both in speech and writing.
- Conscientiousness and a desire to do good work, regardless of oversight.
- Excited to have freedom to work without too much process and friction, but also excited to share ideas and work closely with others.
- Excited to work in the heavy industries.
- Comfortable working in uncertain and dynamic environments.
Skills
- Product design
- Web engineering
- Graphic design
- Design consultancy
- Figma
- Paper wireframes
- Rive/Lottie
- HTML/CSS
- React
- Next.js
- Framer
- Webflow
- UI/UX
- Brand identity
- Visual design
- Motion design
Location
- Austin, Texas
Work Type
- In-office
- Occasional travel
Experience Level
- 2+ years
About the Company
- We build AI technology for the heavy industries.
- Our products work reliably in high-volume production environments 24/7, making decisions worth billions of dollars.
- We solve problems involving manufacturing operations, physics and chemistry, software engineering, AI, and product design.
- We work to bring AI into the physical world to unlock real value for our customers.
- Our teams spend time understanding customer problems firsthand and iterating quickly to solve them.
- We operate across two primary hubs in London, United Kingdom and Austin, Texas.
- We try to work with minimal process and permission, but ample support and collaboration.
- We rarely have a scheduled meeting, but we all work in the office, discussions occur continuously throughout the day, and no request for help goes unanswered for more than a few minutes.
- Features get shipped to production every day.
- Many are designed, developed, and shipped on the customer's site, without a central planning process.
