Head of Design, PermitFlow
$250-300k
+ Offers Equity
3 days a week in office
AI pre-construction platform built for construction and trades
Posted today
AI pre-construction platform built for construction and trades
101-200 employees
Posted today
$250-300k
+ Offers Equity
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make pre-construction seamless, empowering builders to start projects faster with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of product design experience, with deep expertise in B2B SaaS. Experience designing complex workflow products with data-dense interfaces and domain-expert users
- 3+ years of experience leading and managing design teams, ideally in a high-growth startup or technology company
- Proven experience building design teams and functions from early-stage to scale
- Exceptional craft across typography, layout, spacing, hierarchy, color, interaction, and polish. Systems thinking, not just good-looking screens
- Player-coach mentality with the ability to do hands-on design work while simultaneously building and scaling a team
- Active AI fluency, with AI tools integrated into your daily design workflow. Strong opinions on how AI is changing the way designers work and a track record of evolving your own process accordingly
- Strong experience standing up design processes, including critique rituals, quality gates, design-eng collaboration, and design system governance
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership and hold your own in strategic and technical conversations
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution in a fast-moving environment
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced and hands-on Head of Design to build and lead PermitFlow's design function
- In this role, you will define how our product looks, feels, and works
- You will evolve our design capabilities from a small team into a well-staffed, strategic organization that partners closely with Product, Engineering, and the founding team to ship work that directly moves the business
- You'll be responsible for hiring and developing a team of product and brand designers, defining the company's design strategy and quality standards, and building the systems and processes that enable great design at scale
- This is a player-coach leadership role that requires exceptional craft, strong product judgment, and the ability to operate both strategically and hands-on in a fast-paced startup environment
- Build and lead PermitFlow's design organization, evolving it into a strategic partner embedded across the business
- Hire and develop a team of product and brand designers to support stakeholders across Product, Engineering, GTM, Customer Success, Operations, and more
- Define PermitFlow's design strategy, including design system architecture, quality standards, critique processes, and cross-functional collaboration models
- Do hands-on design work yourself, particularly on the workflows and product areas that set the quality bar for the rest of the team
- Own and evolve the design system to ensure consistency, scalability, and coherence across the product as the company grows
- Establish consistent quality standards and review processes across the organization, ensuring what ships to production matches design intent
- Partner closely with leadership to drive design quality that directly impacts business metrics, including activation, retention, and customer satisfaction
- Set the vision for how AI transforms the design function, driving adoption of AI tools and evolving workflows across the team
Our take
Aiming to release value in the construction market, PermitFlow is an AI-powered construction permit application and management platform. It exists to simplify the pre-construction process for builders and owners, enabling them to move forward with projects more easily.
The company offers a standardized permit application workflow through which users can easily prepare and submit permit applications, receive approvals, and respond to municipal comments on one single platform. This saves time, reduces errors and shortens municipal review cycles, ultimately speeding up the time taken to permit.
Through the deployment of advanced technologies, PermitFlow has kept up with the needs of a changing market, benefitting builders and stakeholders across the nation. As AI has advanced, so too have the company's algorithms, bringing in new functionalities such as voice AI agents that can schedule an inspection as soon as a project is permitted.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2025
$54m
SERIES B
Feb 2024
$31m
SERIES A
Total funding: $90.7m
Company benefits
- Equity packages
- 100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage
- Company issued laptop
- Home office & equipment stipend
- Lunch & Dinner provides via UberEats w/ a fully stocked kitchen
- Commuter benefits
- Team building events
- Unlimited PTO
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Francis Thumpasery
(CEO)Previously served as Senior Business Analyst for McKinsey & Company. Co-founded mBulance.
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