Job Description

What we do

Adaptive is a vertical AI company of 50, building the agentic operating system for the $2 trillion U.S. construction industry. We work with over 1,000 customers, partner with over 50 accounting firms, and have raised $26m from Emergence, a16z, and other top funds.

Why join us?

Win a massive category that's up for grabs. Construction is among the least digitized industries left, and no AI king has been crowned. With our momentum, team, and backing, we are in position to be that company

Build a moat that compounds. We orchestrate multi-stakeholder workflows across an industry that today runs on paper, email, and phone calls. Every process we manage generates data no one else has. That data makes each new use case easier to expand to, while building a compounding moat

Work with the rare team that can pull this off. Winning here takes deep construction knowledge and deep AI fluency in the same room. That intersection is rare, and we have it with backgrounds across finance, technology, and construction

Serve the people building the world around you. Your favorite local café. The new house on the corner. The massive new skyscraper at Central Park South. All built by our customers: skilled, creative people who have spent their lives bringing neighborhoods to life

About the role

We're hiring our second product designer to help shape the future of Adaptive. You'll drive the design of impactful, user-centric products that meet the real needs of small-business builders nationwide.

Reporting to the Lead Designer, you'll partner day-to-day with a Product Manager and engineering counterparts to design and ship key product features — including the suite of AI agents we're building to automate construction back-office work. You'll define product experiences, contribute to our design system, and run user research to validate what we build.

Responsibilities

Design and ship new product features end-to-end, in close partnership with product and engineering
Participate in user research and usability testing to validate solutions and improve the experience
Contribute to and help evolve the design system so design stays consistent and scalable across the platform
Collaborate with stakeholders to align user needs, business goals, and product vision

Skills & experience

3–5 years of product design experience, ideally in SaaS or startup environments
Strong skills in UX/UI design, user research, and design systems
Demonstrated ability to own projects from concept to delivery
Excellent communication and storytelling, with the ability to collaborate across product and engineering
Comfort with fast-evolving processes and building in an AI-native product

What we offer

Competitive salary plus meaningful equity
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) match and flexible PTO policy
A seat at the table in a rapidly scaling vertical AI startup
Unlimited opportunities for professional growth and leadership

In-office mandate

This role requires you to work Monday - Thursday in our sunny Union Square office.

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About Adaptive

We’re rebuilding the financial stack for the built world so builders can spend less time in spreadsheets and more time building hospitals, schools, and neighborhoods. Walk any Main Street in America and you’ll see our customers’ work: the corner cafe, the community theater revamp, an epic new skyscraper. Behind every project is a finance team buried in pay apps, hunting down job costs, and sitting through status meetings just to understand where budgets stand. We're building the first AI-native platform to fix this. We're building the first AI-native platform to fix this. Since launching in 2023, we've grown rapidly to ~1,000 customers, and have built partnerships with 6 of the top 100 CPA firms. We've also raised $26m from Emergence, a16z, and the operators behind Brex, Ramp, Square, and Shopify. We value diligence, creativity, urgency, and teamwork. If that sounds like you, and you are excited by the opportunity to reshape this massive, consequential industry, we'd love to meet you. Check out our open roles at: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Adaptive

Product Designer