Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer

Remote – United States | Full-Time | Canals AI

About Canals

Canals is a bootstrapped, profitable startup transforming wholesale distribution—a trillion-dollar industry—with AI. Our platform integrates directly with the systems distributors already use, automating tedious workflows and eliminating failure points in the movement of physical goods around the world.

We’re a 55-person, fully remote team—including 40 engineers—distributed across North and South America. We’re operating at millions in ARR, scaling rapidly, and doing it all without outside funding.

The Opportunity

We’re expanding our design team to help shape how distributors interact with AI-driven tools that simplify their daily work. As a Product Designer at Canals, you’ll turn complex supply chain processes into intuitive, elegant user experiences. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, product, and customer teams to define problems, prototype solutions, and bring thoughtful design to life across our platform.

This role is perfect for someone who thrives in small teams, loves shipping fast, and cares deeply about usability and clarity in product design.

What You’ll Do

• Own the end-to-end design process for core features—from discovery and user flows to polished UI.

• Partner with engineers and PMs to define problems, explore solutions, and ship improvements quickly.

• Translate complex data and workflows into simple, clear, and accessible interfaces.

• Contribute to and evolve our design system, ensuring consistency and scalability.

• Conduct user research, interviews, and usability testing to inform design decisions.

• Balance hands-on design work with high-level product thinking and iteration.

• Advocate for design excellence, empathy, and usability across the company.

What We’re Looking For

• 3–6 years of experience designing web-based software products (SaaS experience preferred).

• Strong portfolio demonstrating UX strategy, visual design craft, and shipped features.

• Expertise in Figma and comfort designing responsive web experiences.

• Ability to translate business and user needs into practical, elegant solutions.

• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate in a remote, async environment.

• Experience working in startups or small teams is a plus.

Why Join Canals

• Bootstrapped & profitable: long-term stability without VC pivots or distractions.

• Massive impact: your designs directly shape how global supply chains run.

• Strong engineering & product culture: fast-moving, collaborative, quality-driven.

• Remote-first & flexible: work from anywhere in the U.S., on your schedule.

• Tons of customer love: we’re growing because our product genuinely changes how distributors work.