资深设计师 - 设计系统
Staff Designer - Design Systems
PermitFlow 正在重新定义美国的建设方式。我们是一家应用人工智能公司，为全国的建设者服务，解决经济中最大的信息挑战之一：了解什么可以建设、在哪里建设以及如何建设。我们的 AI 代理团队帮助增长最快的建筑公司处理从许可和执照到检查和项目收尾的所有事项——加速住房、清洁能源和基础设施的发展。
尽管建筑行业规模达到 1.6 万亿美元，但仍面临严重的延误、浪费的资金和失去的机会。PermitFlow 已经为超过 200 亿美元的开发项目带来了前所未有的速度、准确性和可见性，帮助承包商减少合规时间、降低项目风险，并自信地进行扩展。
随着美国进入数据中心、工厂、住房和可再生能源领域的新的资本支出超级周期，加入 PermitFlow 意味着构建每个推动下一轮再工业化的建设项目的 AI 基础设施核心。
我们已筹集超过 9000 万美元，最近完成了 B 轮融资，https://www.permitflow.com/blog/permitflow-series-b，投资方包括顶级机构 Accel、Kleiner Perkins https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7401703305569275904/、Initialized、Y Combinator、Felicis 和 Altos Ventures，同时还有来自 OpenAI、Google、Procore、ServiceTitan、Zillow、PlanGrid 和 Uber 的领导者支持。
我们的总部位于纽约市，采用混合办公制度（每周 3 天在办公室）。我们更倾向于纽约市本地候选人或愿意搬迁的人选。
关于职位
我们正在招聘第一位设计系统设计师和架构师，以打造 Cornerstone：视觉和交互基础，使设计、工程和日益智能化的产品保持一致。这不是一个维护型岗位。你将建立 PermitFlow 下一阶段产品复杂度所依赖的标准。
我们需要一位能够全面掌握整个系统，同时还能发现四像素的错位而不失节奏的人，对品牌和视觉质量有坚定的信念，每项工作都融入其中。你将与前端和平台工程领导并肩工作，设计、发布并迭代产品所依赖的组件、模式和标记，并且随着 Cornerstone 覆盖范围的扩大，你将有权力围绕这一实践组建团队。
我们的团队能多快完成开发、产品行为的一致性以及用户对高可信度功能的信任程度，都将取决于你的工作。
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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.
As the U.S. enters a new capex supercycle across data centers, factories, housing, and renewables, joining PermitFlow means building the AI infrastructure at the core of every construction project driving the next wave of reindustrialization.
We’ve raised over $90M, most recently completing our Series B, https://www.permitflow.com/blog/permitflow-series-b from top-tier investors including Accel, Kleiner Perkins https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7401703305569275904/, 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.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We're hiring our first Design Systems Designer and Architect to build Cornerstone: the visual and interaction foundation that keeps design, engineering, and an increasingly AI-driven product moving as one. This isn't a maintenance role. You're establishing the standards PermitFlow's next stage of product complexity gets built on.
We need someone who can hold the full system in their head and still catch a four-pixel misalignment without missing a beat, with real conviction about brand and visual quality baked into every call. You'll work side by side with frontend and platform engineering leadership to design, ship, and iterate on the components, patterns, and tokens the product runs on, and you'll have the mandate to grow a team around this practice as Cornerstone's footprint expands.
How fast our teams can build, how consistently the product behaves, and how much trust our users place in high-stakes permitting, licensing, and inspection workflows all trace back to this foundation.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build and continually refine Cornerstone's core building blocks, components, patterns, and tokens designed for complex, workflow-heavy, AI-enabled experiences, with a strong eye for brand cohesion and polish.
- Set a multi-year direction for the design system and turn it into a roadmap that design, engineering, and product leadership can develop in concert.
- Design, prototype, and ship production-ready components hand in hand with a dedic
- Define how contribution, governance, and deprecation work in an AI-native working environment; balance shipping speed against system integrity; and adjust the model as the org grows.
- Bake accessibility, responsiveness, and performance into every part of the system from day one.
- Create the documentation, onboarding materials, and reference resources that make Cornerstone the quickest route to shipping well.
- Advocate for the system & guild in planning, design reviews, and roadmap conversations, and hold firm when speed and integrity are in tension.
- Mentor others in design systems craft as the practice grows, shaping what that craft looks like at PermitFlow for years ahead.
- Build real expertise in construction permitting, licensing, and inspections, leading with curiosity even if pre-construction is new territory for you.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- A portfolio with real point of view, not just system diagrams: craft, quality, accessibility, and visual cohesion are all a must.
- 10+ years in product design, with meaningful ownership of a design system across a multi-product environment; brand or visual design background is a plus.
- Strong command of component architecture, design tokens, and what it takes for a system to total adoption across teams and surfaces.
- A history of working shoulder to shoulder with frontend engineers to ship production-grade systems, not just handing off specs and moving on.
- A track record of setting & reinforcing accessibility standards.
- Clear communication about system tradeoffs, whether you're talking to designers, engineers, or executives.
- Mastery of Figma, Notion, and Linear; actively experimenting with the next best tool to add to our stack.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a high-growth company
- 100% company-paid base medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees + healthcare FSA
- 401(k) savings plan
- Unlimited PTO and paid family leave
- Home office & equipment stipend
- Daily in-office lunch and dinner provided
- Commuter benefits (pre-tax transit and parking)
PermitFlow provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or family status, as protected by applicable law.
We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities. All employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs.