Senior Product Designer, Autonomy Data & Tooling

These are the workflows where a human expert and an automated system have to move together: data labeling, map annotation, track testing, and release testing. Your job is to design the environments that make that collaboration fast and high-signal, and then bring shared patterns into the design system for compounding returns across every internal and partner-facing surface.

You'll join as the third product designer at Waabi, sitting on the Product, Design & TPM team. You'll be the systems-minded builder who turns one-off UI work into compounding returns across the whole platform.

You will…

• Data-centric workflow designer who builds in code. 5-8+ years designing complex, data-rich tools where the primary interface is structured data: tables, filters, search, dashboards, maps, or annotation tools. You see the cross-tool workflow as your unit of work, not the single screen. You can make dense information scannable and actionable without dumbing it down, and you validate by building working prototypes on real data, not static mocks.

• Design-system builder. You think in components, tokens, patterns, and infrastructure, and see the reusable primitive inside every one-off request. You've built or significantly grown a design system, and you understand the difference between a component library and a design system: tokens, documentation, governance, adoption, and the political work of supporting engineers to use it.

• AI-native builder. You use AI-assisted coding (Cursor, Claude Code, or a similar agentic setup) as a default part of how you prototype and ship, not a novelty. It's how you get from idea to working software fast.

• First-principles thinker. You strip problems down to their fundamentals. The tools you'll design have no off-the-shelf pattern to copy. Curation workflows, map annotation, track test playlist management, data lineage visualization: these require you to understand the domain deeply and invent the right interaction model.

• Strong front-end intuition. You don't need to be a senior React engineer, but you understand component architecture, state management, and the constraints of web-based data visualization well enough to design things that are buildable and performant.

• Infrastructure mindset. You're energized by the meta-problem: how do we make everyone faster? You see AGENTS.md files, context documentation, and component APIs as design deliverables, not overhead.

• Advanced AI-assisted workflows. Custom agentic setups, and real opinions about how AI changes the relationship between design systems and self-service UI.

• GIS or mapping tools background. Experience with map annotation, geospatial data, or tools like Mapbox, QGIS, or proprietary mapping tools.

• Data platform or ML tooling experience. Prior work designing labeling tools, data curation interfaces, dataset management, or ML experiment tracking.

• Design system at scale. You've maintained a system used by 10+ engineers across multiple product surfaces and dealt with the versioning, adoption, and governance challenges that come with it.

• AV, robotics, or safety-critical domains. Prior experience where the quality of tooling directly impacts physical safety.

• Competitive compensation and equity awards.
• Health and Wellness benefits encompassing Medical, Dental and Vision coverage (for full-time employees only).
• Unlimited Vacation.
• Flexible hours and Work from Home support.
• Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (when in office).
• Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events both on-site, off-site & virtually.
• As we grow, this list continues to evolve!