Lead Product Designer
Invest Nebraska is a venture capital organization that provides financial and operational assistance to high-growth companies in Nebraska. It advances the state's entrepreneurial economy and attracts out-of-state capital to fund early-stage, product-market-fit companies across all industries.
About Invest Nebraska
Invest Nebraska builds a better future for Nebraska by providing financial and operational assistance to high growth companies, advancing the entrepreneurial economy, and attracting out-of-state capital to the state. Since 2002, Invest Nebraska has been a cornerstone of Nebraska's entrepreneurial ecosystem, investing in companies with early signs of product-market fit, with an average first check of $250k, across all industries, located in Nebraska. The organization has made 155+ high growth investments, helped raise $532.11M+ in follow-on capital, deployed $44.95M+ in capital, created 1,215+ jobs, matched $215M+ in private capital, and its portfolio companies have generated $545.85M+ in cumulative revenue. Invest Nebraska's team includes an experienced staff, dedicated board, and passionate partners committed to building world class businesses with Nebraska entrepreneurs. Its portfolio includes companies such as CompanyCam, Lifeloop, Ocuvera, Marble, BasicBlock, Workshop, and Nobl.
Skills
About the Role
You'll own a pillar of the CompanyCam experience—its impact, quality, and craft end to end—and be a leading voice in shaping its roadmap rather than just executing against a brief. You'll always be thinking past the edges of your pillar, since your decisions need to stay coherent with the rest of the product. You'll act as a leading thought partner to your product and engineering counterparts, and help raise the quality of the design team's work through your practice, the feedback you give, and the standards you hold. We're looking for someone with strong product judgment, deep design craft, and the ability to lift the work of the designers around them.
Requirements
- 7+ years of product design experience, including time operating at a senior or lead level.
- Strong mobile and web product design experience, preferably in SaaS or similar experiences with complex and varied user personas.
- Proven ability to lead high-impact design work in ambiguous or foundational product areas, not just feature execution.
- Deep expertise in UX, systems thinking, and workflow design, with the ability to maintain coherence across complex product ecosystems.
- Demonstrated track record of raising design quality and mentoring a growing team.
- Strong ability to balance long-term product vision with rapid, iterative execution that drives learning while maintaining product cohesion.
- AI-native mindset, with genuine enthusiasm for designing agentic and AI-powered experiences.
Responsibilities
- Lead foundational product design across the core product, shaping workflows, information architecture, and experience coherence as the product evolves.
- Design high-quality, intuitive experiences that simplify complexity while maintaining consistency across an evolving product ecosystem, including new agentic and AI-driven surfaces.
- Use design to shape product priorities, scope, and strategic decisions, extending influence far beyond execution.
- Actively explore and integrate AI tools into your process to work smarter, faster, and with more insight.
- Mentor designers through clear feedback, strong craft and design rationale, and visible practice that sharpens decision-making, strengthens judgment, and improves both team process and product outcomes.
- Work in tight partnership with product managers and engineering teams to plan, prioritize, and ship.
- Lead with empathy and clarity, helping teams align around shared goals and a strong customer perspective.
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Up to 10 days per calendar year at headquarters on CompanyCam's dime