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
