Senior Product Designer

The best infrastructure is invisible. You only notice it when it fails. For decades the people responsible for our roads bridges and sidewalks have been asked to manage the physical world with tools that cant see it.

CYVL is the Physical AI company changing that. We help governments build infrastructure faster with hardware software and AI turning street-level capture into living intelligence that 500 cities and towns across the country use to see whats out there direct the work and fix problems before they fail.

We believe in a future where infrastructure keeps up with society. Every street sidewalk bridge everywhere. The proof isnt a dashboard. Its a smoother commute a safer walk to school public dollars going where they matter most.

Were a fast-moving team in Boston building for the real world. If you believe technologys highest calling is public good come build with us.

Youll be Cyvls only product designer and youll own how customers experience Cyvl from the sensor on their vehicle to the platform on their screen. Reporting to our VP of Product youll work daily with PMs and engineers in pitch-based build cycles. PMs frame the problem; you get in front of public works teams shape the answer and ship it. As we grow youll build and lead Cyvls design function. This is pure product design not marketing or brand: what you ship is what public works crews use to fix real streets.

• Run discovery with public works teams to learn what theyre trying to get done and where our product gets in their way.

• Build pitches with product and engineering and take them all the way to production often in the code yourself.

• Turn LiDAR imagery and condition data into interfaces a busy public works director gets in seconds. Prototype fast with Claude Code or similar tools.

• Dig into product analytics and customer data to find friction and make the call on what to fix.

• Own the design system and the platforms future look and feel and help shape the field-capture experience with our hardware team.

• Startup experience. 5 years designing B2B enterprise software with real time inside a high-growth VC-backed startup. Have 3 years plus a background in PM engineering or industrial design Lets talk.

• Customer obsession. Youd rather watch a public works crew in the field than guess in Figma. You turn what you hear into sharp business decisions and customers trust you in the room.

• You build and ship. You push UX changes to production code yourself not just hand off files.

• A portfolio that shows you take messy complex systems and make them feel effortless.

• Fluency in data and AI. Comfortable in a codebase at home in the analytics and you understand data models and AI/ML well enough to design for them. We use Figma Claude Code or PostHog but we care about the outcomes not the tool.

• Youve designed across hardware and software or you bring an industrial design sense.

• Youve designed agentic or AI-driven experiences and ready to build for what comes next.

Hard tech. Real streets. Your name on it.

• Hard problems in the real world. You build end-to-end: our own hardware software and AI with work that shows up on the street in the real world.

• Ownership that compounds. You own outcomes not tasks. You work directly with customers and across our team and youll own more sooner than almost anywhere else.

• Intense with heart. Were building a category so its not a place to coast. We also take care of each other have genuine fun together and believe in what we are doing.

• Cross lanes. Not my job doesnt exist here.

• Own without a playbook. The plan is still being written often by you.

• Try miss try again. We make big bets. Some wont land and we learn fast.

• Be in the room. Were on-site in Somerville about 90% of the time.

Were a startup building a category. If that sounds like the draw not the risk wed love to talk.

• Equity. Youll own a piece of what youre building.

• Health dental and vision. Cyvl covers most of the premium for you and your family.

• 401k with a real match vested day one. Your money is yours from the start.

• Generous PTO & Paid Parental leave. Doing hard work well includes stepping away from it.

• Learning stipend. Spend it on whatever makes you sharper.

• Paid to live close. A monthly bonus for living near our Boston office.

• Team events. Time together in Boston with a team youll love working with.

• Real: Authentic and transparent. Focused on solving real problems with simple effective solutions.

• All Out: Bold driven and committed to delivering results that matter.

• Accelerating: Always learning growing and moving with intention.

• Reliable: We follow through and deliver at a consistently high bar.

• Empowering: We lift each other up and help governments build infrastructure they can be proud of.

• How Atlanta cut downtown potholes by 60%

• How Buffalo turned a campaign promise into a paving plan

• How to rebuild US infrastructure smarter

We build for every community so we hire from all of them. The best people for this work come from different backgrounds paths and places and many of them dont check every box. If this role excites you apply anyway. If you need an adjustment to our interview process tell us and well make it work.

Required Experience:

Senior IC