About the role

Role Overview

As a Product Designer at Lightyear, you’ll work closely with the Head of Product Design to ship product features across a broad platform surface. The role is ~85% product design and ~15% marketing design support, with meaningful ownership in an early-stage, fast-moving team.

What You’ll Do

Ship product features end-to-end within established product areas, partnering with PMs and engineers from brief through launch.
Run design reviews, give and receive critique, and iterate quickly based on feedback from customers, PMs, and engineering.
Contribute to and refine the design system in Figma, including opening PRs in the codebase for updates such as tokens, components, and spacing fixes.
Provide marketing design support as needed:
- marketing site updates
- LinkedIn/Reddit ad creative
- slide deck templates
- event collateral
- brand asset support for internal teams
Use AI tooling to accelerate:
- ideation, research, prototyping, and asset creation
- evaluate where AI improves design output and where it doesn’t

Requirements

3–5 years of professional product design experience.
B2B SaaS background (fintech, devtools, vertical SaaS, or other workflow-heavy enterprise products are strong fits).
Strong mix of 1-to-N work (improving/scaling existing product surfaces) with some 0-to-1 examples.
Portfolio demonstrates both product UI and marketing-adjacent visual work (e.g., landing pages, ad creative, decks, brand systems).
AI is already part of your workflow (e.g., Claude, Cursor, v0, Figma AI).
Code-fluent collaboration: comfortable reading frontend code and making small scoped changes (design-system token updates, spacing tweaks, copy fixes).
Ability to prototype in code when faster than Figma.

Nice-to-Haves

Experience as a founding/solo designer at a small startup or agency/brand background.
High craft with a “high craft, low ego” approach: seeks critique, iterates fast, and improves continuously.
Curious mindset and ability to stay at the edge of the field.

About Lightyear

Lightyear builds software that modernizes telecom management for enterprise IT teams. Its platform automates telecom procurement, network inventory management, bill payment, and related workflows for companies across a range of industries. The company is venture-backed and used by major enterprise organizations.