Senior Designer

About Us

Zoo is building the next generation of hardware design tools redefining how hardware products are designed, developed, and built. Our platform combines a modern, cloud-native CAD environment with AI-powered engineering workflows, helping teams design, iterate, and manufacture products faster than ever before. We are headquartered in Los Angeles, CA with both a local and remote team. We were founded and incubated by Embedded Ventures in 2021.

About You

We’re looking for curious, innovative, and ambitious self-starters to join our growing team to help us bring our mission to life. We think you’ll thrive on our team if you’re:

• Curious at your core, with an eagerness to learn and do things differently
• Customer-focused, always thinking about ways to improve the user experience
• Able to operate autonomously and work asynchronously, while also being an effective team player 

About The Role

As a Senior Designer at Zoo, you will own design across our product experiences, core workflows, as well as our website, tutorials, and brand systems assets. This is a broad, high-impact role for a versatile designer who thrives moving between product design, web design, visual storytelling, and user education.

You will help shape how customers experience Zoo at every stage: discovering the company, learning the platform, using complex technical tools, and engaging with the brand over time. Our products include Zoo Design Studio- our 3D CAD modeling app, Zookeeper- our AI agent, and infrastructure tools, so we need a designer who can bring clarity, usability, and visual excellence to highly sophisticated technology. You will partner closely with engineering and leadership to establish a world-class design standard across every touchpoint.

What You’ll Do

• Own our next phase of design across Zoo’s full ecosystem, including product, website, tutorials, documentation, brand, and marketing surfaces
• Design intuitive product experiences and workflows for complex technical tools 
• Support website design and optimization, improving storytelling, conversion, visual polish, and brand consistency
• Create tutorials, onboarding flows, product education assets, and visual learning content that help users adopt the platform quickly
• Build, maintain, and evolve a scalable design system in Figma across product and web experiences
• Design wireframes, prototypes, polished UI, graphics, presentations, and launch assets as needed
• Partner closely with engineering to ensure designs are implemented with high quality and strong user experience standards
• Collaborate with leadership on brand direction, creative strategy, and company-wide visual identity
• Gather user feedback, run usability testing, and continuously improve experiences across customer touchpoints
• Document systems, workflows, and design processes to create leverage as the company scales
• Raise the quality bar across the company through strong taste, thoughtful execution, and user-centered thinking

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Marketing, Design, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience 
• 5+ years of experience in a broad design role spanning product design, web design, brand, or growth design for a technical product 
• Strong portfolio demonstrating versatility across software products, websites, and visual design systems
• Exceptional UI/UX instincts with the ability to simplify complex workflows into intuitive experiences
• Professional expertise with Figma creating and maintaining design systems 
• Experience using AI tools to automate design workflows
• Experience collaborating closely with engineering teams and shipping high-quality digital products
• Strong visual design skills including typography, layout, hierarchy, and brand consistency
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment with ambiguity and shifting priorities
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple parallel design workstreams

Nice to Have

• Experience designing technical products such as developer tools, CAD software, 3D tools, or B2B SaaS platforms
• Experience creating tutorials, onboarding systems, or educational product content
• Familiarity with front-end technologies such as React or TypeScript
• Experience with motion design, illustration, or video content
• Interest in hardware, engineering, manufacturing, or computational design
• Experience working with open-source communities or technical users