Product/User Experience Designer, Kodiak Robotics
Contract
$100-125k
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Self-driving technology for long-haul trucks
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Self-driving technology for long-haul trucks
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$100-125k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
Kodiak Robotics' mission is to carry freight forward—so people, partners, and the planet thrive.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of product design experience in a product-driven company, with a compelling portfolio showcasing your work on shipped consumer or enterprise products, particularly those involving complex workflows
- Demonstrated ability to lead end-to-end design for complex products in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, with a strong aptitude for navigating complexity and translating user needs into clear, actionable, and creative solutions
- Deep expertise in interaction design, visual design, and user experience principles, consistently upholding a high bar for quality and craftsmanship
- Proficiency in Figma and other modern design and prototyping tools, with experience contributing to a design system in an iterative software development environment
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design rationale, present work compellingly to diverse audiences (including cross-functional teams and stakeholders), and effectively advocate for the user in a room with engineering, product, and leadership teams
- A proactive, builder mindset with a desire to influence the design process and culture
- Experience conducting user interviews and usability testing to gather user feedback and insights
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You know how to facilitate tradeoffs between engineering and product requirements, but always maintain high safety standards
- Passion. You are passionate about autonomous vehicles and their potential impact on humanity
What the job involves
- We are seeking a talented and pragmatic Product/User Experience Designer to join our team on a contract basis. In this role, you will design and deliver intuitive, efficient workflows that support the operation, management, and scaling of Kodiak’s autonomous trucking and logistics ecosystem
- You will work closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to create user-centered experiences across internal tools and operator workflows—including mission control, routing, and remote assistance. Your work will directly impact how our teams and partners manage autonomous vehicles in real time
- You will build and deliver best-in-class experiences for the Kodiak team through hands-on work, design leadership and by collaborating with other leaders and cross-functional team members. This role calls for a creative leader with an unwavering commitment to user-centered design. This passion translates into flawless execution, leveraging a deep understanding of design patterns to increase efficiency, cut through noise, and streamline usability of our operations products
- Enable our operations team to maximize the efficiency of our fleet of self-driving vehicles by proposing designs that enhance Kodiak’s suite of operational tools that enable remote fleet management, routing, monitoring, remote support, and troubleshooting
- Spearhead the end-to-end design process, translating ambiguous problems and complex user needs into concrete, innovative solutions—from mock-ups and prototypes to detailed specs—that define and drive the Kodiak product vision forward
- Own design deliverables from concept to launch, expertly tailoring solutions to balance product requirements, technical constraints, and stakeholder needs, ensuring the delivery of intuitive and effective designs in a fast-paced environment
- Champion user needs through continuous research, testing, and iteration, compellingly communicating design rationale (via storytelling and clear justification) and advocating for user-centric approaches
- Partner across engineering, product management, operations and other cross-functional teams to co-create solutions, and ensure the high-quality implementation of intuitive user experiences
- Lead the design, documentation, to establish an overall design system (components, patterns, documentation) to set the path forward for visual and functional consistency
- Passionately advocate for exceptional design craft, quality, and design principles, inspiring teams and influencing how we optimize processes to build best-in-class AI experiences
Our take
Global supply chains rely on frictionless long-haul trucking freight networks, but the repetitive and stationary nature of the job has resulted in a lack of willing drivers. Whilst this has been partially resolved through the introduction of self-driving trucks, such systems are notoriously difficult to maintain which ultimately leads to significant downtime.
Kodiak Robotics develops self-driving technology for long-haul trucks, providing wing mirrors built with sensors called Kodiak SensorPods. These sensors provide the technology necessary for the trucks to be driven safely and autonomously and have been designed to be replaced or serviced rapidly to minimize downtime.
Whilst the company’s most significant challenge will present itself as other self-driving truck providers, Kodiak Robotics has taken a unique approach by recognizing the high-maintenance nature of existing self-driving systems, innovating upon this through its easily replaceable SensorPods. Through this approach and several successful rounds of funding, the company aims to fill empty truck driving positions with safer AI drivers, whilst ensuring its technology is quick and simple to maintain.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2023
$75m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2021
$125m
SERIES B
Total funding: $240m
Company benefits
- Remote-friendly work environment
- 401k
- Generous PTO policy
- Life insurance
- Assortment of medical (PPO/HMO/HDHP), dental, vision, and FSA plans
- Family-friendly company events
- Dog-friendly office
- Employee-driven fitness classes
- Beautiful, renovated facilities in Mountain View, CA and Lancaster, TX
- Free EV charging
- Trivia and board game nights
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Don Burnette
(CEO)Experience as Co-founder of Otto. Software Technical Lead at Uber from 2016 to 2018.
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