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Staff Product Designer

Coast · New York, NY · On-site

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About Coast

The first AI-powered demo platform designed to sell, market and implement technical products with ease. Backed by Accel, Insight and ICONIQ.

About the role

As a Staff Product Designer, you are accountable for business outcomes, not just design quality and customer delight. You work with product managers, engineers, and other designers to define the right problems, explore and validate solutions, and ship product experiences that change customer behavior. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Minimum 6 years of experience as a product designer working on complex products
  • A portfolio that shows strong product thinking and design craft (i.e., interaction design, visual design, information architecture, ux writing, and user research)
  • Ability to distill problems and feedback, then design clear, focused solutions
  • Courage to ask questions, experiment, and advocate for what you feel is right
  • Humility to accept feedback, adapt your thinking, and iterate toward the best solution
  • Active use of LLMs (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) in your design workflow
More about this role

Founded in 2020, Coast has become the payments and expense management platform of choice for the 500,000 fleets and 40 million vehicles that keep the country moving by giving fleet owners and operators control, visibility, and trust over how their businesses spend.

In an industry where complexity is the norm, we're building something simple yet opinionated and focused: software that field owners, managers, and workers actually want to use. Every member of our fully co-located team is a builder who demonstrates high agency, ownership, and urgency every day. We also care deeply about bringing modern, well-crafted tools to the trades; an industry that's been underserved for too long. This mindset drives everything we do, from product decisions to hiring choices.

As a Staff Product Designer, you are accountable for business outcomes, not just design quality and customer delight. You work with product managers, engineers, and other designers to define the right problems, explore and validate solutions, and ship product experiences that change customer behavior.

Design at Coast is AI first and builder-led. Work starts in an LLM, moves into tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex to...

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