Product Designer

About Nominal

Nominal is building the connected test and operations platform powering the world's most advanced hardware systems.

The Role

We're looking for designers graduating in 2027 or sooner with solid visual and product design fundamentals to join Nominal full time. You'll own design work for defined features and product improvements, with support from experienced designers and close collaboration with engineering and product. You'll help bring new capabilities to life, learn directly from customers, and grow your judgment as a product designer. Your work will support engineers testing and validating complex hardware systems.

What You'll Do

• Turn complexity into clarity. Dive into high-frequency, high-volume hardware and data workflows and translate them into intuitive product experiences.
• Design alongside real users. Partner with engineers and customers to understand their workflows, identify pain points, and test potential solutions.
• Partner with design, engineering, and product to research, prototype with AI, and contribute directly to product improvements and features.
• Own the design of defined features from initial exploration through implementation, working with your team to clarify scope and make tradeoffs.
• Collaborate with engineers throughout development to refine interactions and deliver thoughtful, usable experiences.
• Evolve our design system. Contribute reusable patterns and components that improve consistency and usability across the platform.
• Help shape our design culture by sharing work early, giving constructive feedback, and using customer insights to inform product decisions.

Reach Out If...

• You're graduating in 2027 (or sooner) and seeking a full-time product design role as a new graduate or early-career designer.
• You have a portfolio that demonstrates strong visual design fundamentals and product thinking through academic work, personal projects, internships, or professional experience.
• You can translate a user problem into clear flows, detailed interface designs, and prototypes.
• You can explain your design decisions and refine them based on feedback, user needs, and technical constraints.
• You take initiative to clarify unfamiliar problems and collaborate with others to move work forward.

Bonus, Not Required

• You've collaborated with engineers to bring a design into a working product.
• You've used AI tools to explore ideas or build prototypes.
• You've designed data visualizations, complex workflows, or tools for technical users.

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), Refugee, or Asylee, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.