Staff Product Designer

Mudflap serves the $800B trucking industry, the backbone of the U.S. economy. Our market-leading payment products help truckers save thousands of dollars on fuel (their #1 business expense), while providing our fuel stop partners with access to new, hard-to-reach customers. We’re a fast-growing marketplace business looking for a new customer-obsessed teammate to join us on this exciting journey.

We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to join our team and lead the strategic design of industry-shaping experiences across our mobile and web platforms. You’ll take on highly ambiguous challenges, connect the dots across systems and workflows, and help bring clarity and vision to product development at scale.

Work Location:

This role can be primarily remote with occasional in-office collaboration days at our Palo Alto, CA location. Team members are expected to be available for scheduled on-site meetings or events a few times per quarter.

To support our team, we offer:

• Commuter benefits to ease your travel
• Lunches and snacks to keep you fueled
• A collaborative, high-growth environment where you’ll work closely

Expectations (In this role, you will):

• Design-Led Initiatives: Drive the design-led vision and execution for complex, strategic projects that directly impact the business and improve real-world operations for trucking professionals
• Own the Problem Space: Make sure all projects are tackling the right problem. Conduct generative user research to uncover opportunities, test hypotheses, and guide product discovery from the ground up
• Deliver Mobile Experiences: Own end-to-end experiences across iOS and Android, including core functionality and new surface areas
• Improve Design Operations: Advance our playbooks, patterns, and frameworks to improve the quality, speed, and ease of our design team's customer-centric process
• Shape Business Strategy: Collaborate with senior leaders in Product, Engineering, and Data to shape roadmaps, prioritize user needs, and define how design drives business impact
• Mentor and Inspire: Support the growth of Senior Designers through informal leadership, feedback, and cross-functional influence

Experience (What we look for):

• 8+ years as a Senior Product Designer or higher, including ownership of initiatives with measurable business outcomes
• 5+ years of experience designing mobile apps for iOS and Android
• Significant experience leading early-stage research and problem space definition
• Strong storytelling and presentation skills; able to rally teams around design ideas
• Prior experience working on design teams of 20–300+ designers, collaborating within mature design orgs
• Background in designing digital services that improve physical-world workflows (e.g., logistics, mobility, operations)
• Deep proficiency with modern design tools (Figma, prototyping libraries, etc.) and methods
  

Perks and Benefits (What we offer):

• Competitive salary and equity in a high-growth startup
• Multiple health benefit options
• Responsible Time Off
• 401(k) matching
• Opportunities and support for major career growth
• Annual Company offsite event (Mudfest!)

The base salary range for this role is $190,000 - $225,000. This information reflects a base salary range for this position based on current market data, which may be subject to change as new market data becomes available. The candidate's skills, experience, and other relevant factors will determine the exact compensation. 

Company Overview (Who we are):

Mudflap is on a mission to transform the trucking and logistics industry by leveling the playing field for owner operators and small fleets. Backed by top-tier venture investors, including QED, Matrix Partners, Commerce Ventures, NFX, and 500 Startups and included in the Forbes Fintech 50 list, Mudflap offers fleet fuel management solutions. Our core team hails from Disney, Uber, Procore, DoorDash, Google, Meta, Capital One, Affirm and Brex.

Here are the core values that we believe in and look for in new teammates:

• Be Customer Obsessed: We deeply understand customer needs and put our customers at the center of everything we do
• Make it Count: Act like an owner by focusing on the impact of your work
• Find a Way: Be a creative problem solver who pushes past roadblocks to win for our customers and our teammates
• Sweat the Details: We keep our standards high and achieve them by paying attention to every detail
• Be Curious: Use a growth mindset to question assumptions, take calculated risks and stretch the boundaries of what’s possible