Staff Product Designer

PermitFlow is an applied AI company redefining construction by accelerating permitting, licensing, inspections, and project closeouts. They use an AI agent workforce to tackle information challenges in the $1.6T construction industry, having powered over $20B in real estate development. The company is in hypergrowth, backed by over $90M from top-tier investors, and is building AI at the heart of future construction projects.

Must Have

• Dive into construction permitting and learn its processes.
• Identify and assess opportunities for UX and visual improvements.
• Contribute to overall strategy and decision-making for product direction.
• Lead end-to-end design projects, collaborating with customers, engineering, and other teams.
• Establish early processes advocating for a design-centric approach.
• Collaborate with sales and marketing for collateral and branding material.
• Design a beautiful, functional, and scalable permitting product.
• All applications must link to or include a portfolio.
• 6+ years of experience designing software, especially B2B products and complex workflows.
• Comfortable with Figma, Notion, Linear, or similar tooling.
• High tolerance for ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills with internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrate technical competence to effectively communicate designs with engineers.

Good to Have

• Ability to code (bonus)

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a high-growth company
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO and paid family leave
• Home office & equipment stipend
• Hybrid NYC office culture (3 days in-office/week) with direct access to leadership
• In-Office Lunch & Dinner Provided

PermitFlow is redefining how America builds. Pre-construction remains one of the most broken and manual parts of the $1.6T construction industry, causing massive delays, wasted capital, and lost opportunity across the built world. Our AI workforce delivers unprecedented speed, accuracy, and visibility to pre-construction — accelerating housing development, enabling clean-energy projects, and driving economic growth in communities nationwide. To date, we’ve powered over $20B in real estate development, helping builders and contractors move faster, reduce risk, and scale with confidence.

We’re entering hypergrowth with clear product-market fit and a world-class team from top AI and construction companies. We’ve raised over $36.5M from Kleiner Perkins, Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, Felicis Ventures, and Altos Ventures, alongside backers from OpenAI, Google, Procore, ServiceTitan, Zillow, PlanGrid, and Uber. We are on a mission is to modernize how the built world operates.

PermitFlow is redefining how America builds. We’re an applied AI company serving the nation’s builders, tackling one of the largest information challenges in the economy: understanding what can be built, where, and how. Our AI agent workforce helps the fastest-growing construction companies navigate everything from permitting and licensing to inspections and project closeouts – accelerating housing, clean-energy, and infrastructure development across the country.

Despite being a $1.6T industry, construction still suffers from massive delays, wasted capital, and lost opportunity. PermitFlow has already delivered unprecedented speed, accuracy, and visibility to over $20B in development, helping contractors reduce compliance time, de-risk projects, and scale with confidence.

America is entering a CAPEX super-cycle, from data centers and factories to housing and renewables, and joining PermitFlow is building the AI at the heart of every construction project powering the next wave of re-industrialization.

We’ve raised over $90M, most recently completing our Series B,

from top-tier investors including Accel, Kleiner Perkins, Initialized, Y Combinator, Felicis, and Altos Ventures, with backing from leaders at OpenAI, Google, Procore, ServiceTitan, Zillow, PlanGrid, and Uber.

Our HQ is in New York City with a hybrid schedule (3 in-office days per week). We prefer NYC-based candidates or those open to relocation.

What You’ll Do:

• Dive into the world of construction permitting and learn from our internal resources and team about how permitting works. Success requires our team becoming experts in construction permitting.
• Identify and assess opportunities for UX and visual improvements in the PF application
• Contribute to overall strategy and decision-making about product direction
• Lead end-to-end design projects and work closely with our customers, engineering, and other teams to design internal and customer-facing applications
• Help establish our early processes that advocate for a design-centric approach
• Collaborate with the sales and marketing team to produce sales collateral and branding material as needed
• Help us design a really amazing permitting product that is not only beautiful, but works and scales

Requirements

• All applications must link to or include a portfolio. We’re looking for your ability to craft design solutions in relevant or related product areas and an ability to deliver high-quality design thinking and product design in a fast-paced environment
• 6+ years of experience designing software ; we're especially looking for experience with B2B products and complex workflows but any experience building software interfaces applies.
• Our team primarily uses Figma, Notion, Linear. You should be comfortable with those or similar tooling.
• High tolerance for ambiguity. We are moving fast, and our design, product, and engineering processes are constantly in flux. We value team members that can roll with this messiness and contribute to discussions on how to constantly improve.
• Strong communication skills. Both designers and engineers and Permitflow spend time talking to internal and external stakeholders.
• Technical competence. You don’t need to know how to code (although it’s a bonus) – but we value the ability to effectively communicate designs and decisions with engineers. It’s certainly not a requirement for the job, but the product team is very collaborative and being able to understand technical implications and trade-offs is a valuable skill.

What We Offer (Full Time Roles Only)

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a high-growth company
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO and paid family leave
• Home office & equipment stipend
• Hybrid NYC office culture (3 days in-office/week) with direct access to leadership
• In-Office Lunch & Dinner Provided