Lead Product Designer

The role :

At Mach9, Product Designers craft the core experience that brings the power of AI and geospatial data to civil engineers around the world. You'll work closely with engineering, product, and customers to translate deeply technical problems into clear, intuitive tools that accelerate infrastructure design.

This role is ideal for designers with experience designing for complex systems and technical users, working across the design stack, and the flexibility to move quickly when it matters.

You'll lead the design for a modern 2D / 3D web-based environment that blends CAD-like precision with the usability of modern consumer tools, striking the right balance between rigorous design process and rapid product iteration.

Where you will make an impact :

Lead design for core product workflows, from 3D feature extraction to quality assurance and geospatial review

Partner with product, engineering, and marketing leadership to decide priorties, and ensure the shipping of quality and impactful features and products

Grow and mentor the design team at Mach9

Collaborate closely with engineers to refine prototypes into polished, high-performance user interfaces

Own the evolution of our design system and visual language, ensuring consistency across a growing product surface area

Navigate technical constraints and real-world edge cases without sacrificing user experience

Balance multiple priorities across customer needs, technical feasibility, and speed to value

Drive both long-term UX vision and fast-moving delivery in a startup environment

What you bring :

4+ years of product design experience, ideally in technical, data-heavy, or 3D product environments

Experience working on complex products with constraints related to spatial data, design precision, or engineering-driven interfaces

Strong visual design, interaction design, and systems thinking skills

Fluency in Figma and comfort working with and evolving robust design systems

Demonstrated ability to work hand-in-hand with engineers to ship high-quality, thoughtful interfaces

Comfortable moving between deep design exploration and pragmatic, iterative delivery

Bonus experience :

Prior work with CAD, BIM, 3D modeling tools, or geospatial interfaces

Familiarity with frontend technologies (e.g., React, Three.js, TailwindCSS)

Experience conducting or synthesizing user research with highly specialized users

An eye for visual clarity and information hierarchy in high-density UIs

About Mach9

Mach9 is transforming civil infrastructure design with AI-powered geospatial tools. Our platform accelerates the creation of engineering deliverables from raw data, cutting manual drafting time by 96×. Trusted by global leaders in engineering and construction, we're backed by Y Combinator, Quiet Capital, and top founders and executives from Cruise, Autodesk, Adobe, and DoorDash.

We believe the needs of a startup benefit from an in-person culture. The team works out of our office in SoMa, with the flexibility to work from home when needed.