Product Designer

About BlastPoint

BlastPoint is a B2B data analytics startup located in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. We give companies the power to engage with customers more effectively by discovering the humans in their data and understanding customer journeys. Serving diverse industries including energy, finance, retail, and transportation, BlastPoint’s Customer Intelligence Platform makes data accessible to business users so they can plan solutions to customer-facing challenges, from encouraging green behavior to managing customers’ financial stress. Founded in 2016 by Carnegie Mellon Alumni, we are a tight-knit, forward-thinking team.

Why You Should Work for Us

• Solve Challenging Problems: BlastPoint’s platform incorporates cutting-edge approaches to geospatial data, psychographic clustering, data enrichment and a dynamic visualization environment, all at scale. We’re working to break new ground by pulling insights from high-dimensional data. And we’re pushing ourselves to try new and better ways to approach every step of our process.

• Have An Impact: Small but mighty, BlastPoint’s growth is due to big companies increasingly trusting us with supporting key decisions using their most sensitive data. What we do positively impacts the lives of millions of Americans (and beyond).

• Make Positive Change in the World: Our solutions reduce paper consumption, help struggling families pay their bills, and promote clean energy. We also offer our platform for free to nonprofits and civic-oriented organizations.

• Employee-Focused Culture: We support the individual needs of our team, offering schedule and work-from-home flexibility, health insurance, 401K, and three weeks of PTO. We also tailor growth opportunities, from skills training to industry conferences.

• Equal Opportunity Employer: BlastPoint is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace, ensuring equal employment opportunities for individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.

Our Values

Everybody matters
We beat expectations
Innovation built on a foundation
Cards on the table, always
"The smartest systems from the most
comprehensive data built by the best people”

Job Description

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Product Designer to join our growing Platform Engineering team. The ideal candidate for this position has a solid understanding of component-based design principles and is eager to support the design team in implementing these methodologies effectively throughout the product development process.

Salary Range: $70,000-$95,000

Primary duties for this position include:

• Translate high-level business needs into detailed designs with guidance from senior designers.

• Optimize designs for implementation in iterative vertical slices.

• Gather feedback and gain buy-in from leadership, sales, and customer success teams.

• Actively participate in feature ideation and contribute from conception to implementation.

• Assist in the maturation of BlastPoint's UI framework by contributing to our component-based design system.

• Proactively identify opportunities for component reuse and new component requirements early in the design process.

• Contribute to enhancing the beauty, consistency, and intuitiveness of BlastPoint’s UI.

Professional Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field of study.

• 1+ year of work experience designing interactive digital products.

• Proficiency in modern interactive design tools such as Figma (preferred), Sketch, etc.

• Familiarity with the basics of web technologies and their design implications.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

• Employment is subject to a background check.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Interest in current trends in UX/UI for interacting with AI models.

• Experience assisting in designing UIs centered around data and geospatial visualizations.

• Experience contributing to user experience testing or feedback sessions.

• Familiarity with user behavior tracking tools like Pendo.

• Basic knowledge of modern UI frameworks (e.g., React).

• Ability to support multiple ongoing concurrent projects in cadence with our product teams.

• Attention to detail.

• A willingness to travel to the Pittsburgh, PA office periodically (roughly 2-4 times per year), provided that it is safe to do so