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 design end-to-end for high-impact product areas, taking ideas from early concept through shipped, polished execution. You'll apply strong interaction design, visual design, and information architecture fundamentals to solve real problems for contractors doing real work. You'll help define new interaction patterns for agentic and AI-powered experiences, where the old rules of screen in, screen out don't fully apply. You'll sketch, prototype, and test ideas at different levels of fidelity to validate decisions quickly. You'll work closely with Product and Engineering to align on goals, move fast, and deliver high-quality solutions. You'll communicate design decisions clearly, invite feedback, and actively participate in critique. You'll also contribute to the design system, helping keep it consistent, scalable, and genuinely useful.
Requirements
- 3-5+ years of experience as a Product Designer, ideally with experience shipping complex, high-quality features for a SaaS product
- Proven craft in visual and interaction design
- Strong interaction design and visual design skills across desktop, mobile, and emerging AI-driven surfaces
- Ability to balance speed and detail
- Comfort working end-to-end, from big-picture systems thinking down to the smallest interaction detail
- Experience building prototypes to communicate ideas
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product and engineering teams
- Familiarity with accessibility best practices and inclusive design principles
- Excitement for using AI as part of design workflow and designing agentic experiences
- Agency, ownership, and autonomy
- A continuous growth mindset
Responsibilities
- Own design end-to-end for high-impact product areas, from early concept through shipped, polished execution
- Apply strong interaction design, visual design, and information architecture fundamentals to solve real problems for contractors
- Help define new interaction patterns for agentic and AI-powered experiences
- Sketch, prototype, and test ideas at different levels of fidelity to validate decisions quickly
- Work closely with Product and Engineering to align on goals, move fast, and deliver high-quality solutions
- Communicate design decisions clearly, invite feedback, and actively participate in critique
- Contribute to the design system, helping keep it consistent, scalable, and genuinely useful
Benefits
- Equity
- Up to 10 days per calendar year to visit headquarters in Lincoln, Nebraska