UpCodes

Product Designer

North America

$108,000 – $180,000Compensation
Junior (1 to 2 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Construction, Design, SoftwareIndustries

Product Designer

Salary: $108K - $180K Location Type: Remote Employment Type: Full-Time


About UpCodes

Trusted by 900,000 monthly active users, UpCodes (YC S17) is a comprehensive compliance and product research platform that accelerates design to construction in the AEC space. The construction industry suffers from unnecessary costs and complexity; every year billions of dollars are wasted on rework. We’re committed to delivering easy-to-use tools that help designers and builders spend less time finding the right compliance and product resources and more time doing what they love — designing and building. We make a real-world tangible impact on the lives of our users and their work of constructing our homes, schools, hospitals, and offices.


About the Role

Our ideal candidate is a seasoned product designer who’s looking to take on significant strategic responsibilities alongside day-to-day design tasks. Usability and overall design quality are two of the things that help set UpCodes apart from competitors, and you’ll be a key part of maintaining and extending our advantage.


What You'll Do

As a Product Designer, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our product and design culture. You’ll partner with product managers and engineers to own end-to-end design across core experiences like our AI Copilot and Products Library.

  • Own UX/UI design across key features from exploration to launch, focusing on clarity, usability, accessibility, and polish.
  • Participate in regular user research relying on qualitative and quantitative methods to validate ideas, measure success, and uncover new user pain points.
  • Work cross-functionally with Product and Engineering. You’ll get a chance to provide feedback and help define requirements during planning, gather feedback and iterate together during design explorations, and provide input and guidance during implementation.
  • Collaborate with Marketing on high-priority initiatives and provide design input to ensure visual alignment across the website, brand, and product.
  • Take ownership of projects and product areas and help drive them forward independently, while staying collaborative and aligned with the broader team.
  • Help continue to evolve our design practice by contributing to our design system, introducing new conceptual frameworks, and improving processes.

The Ideal Candidate

  • Experienced Designer: At least 5 years of experience designing responsive web applications.
  • B2B SaaS Familiarity: Experience working on B2B SaaS products.
  • Usability-First Perspective: Has a strong intuition for usability and accessibility — you can show how that comes through in your past work.
  • Confident Researcher: Confident running user research and interviews, drawing on qualitative and quantitative data, and helping translate those into actionable insights for the rest of the team.
  • Self-Starter: Self-motivated with good time management. Can work independently and as part of a team within a structured but flexible, fast-paced development process.
  • Design-Curious: Passion for the craft and a curiosity about emerging perspectives, techniques, and tools.
  • Action-Oriented: Has a bias towards action and iteration — you ship, learn, and refine quickly.
  • Design System Contributor: Has worked with design systems (bonus if you’ve helped build or scale one!).
  • Comfortable with Complexity: Experience designing complex or information-dense tools in specialized fields.

Skills

UX/UI Design
User Research
Accessibility
Prototyping
Cross-functional Collaboration
Design Tools

UpCodes

Online platform for construction code management

About UpCodes

UpCodes provides an all-in-one platform for code visibility and access, serving professionals in architecture, engineering, construction, and government sectors. The platform leverages technologies for seamless code access, validation, error-checking, and centralized code management, enhancing project efficiency and expertise.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2016Year Founded
$7.4MTotal Funding
SERIES_ACompany Stage
Consulting, Government & Public SectorIndustries
11-50Employees

Benefits

Flexible hours
Team retreats
Medical & dental insurance
Equity
100% remote

Risks

Potential legal challenges from traditional code publishers threaten UpCodes' operations.
Reliance on AI may expose UpCodes to inaccuracies and liability issues.
Increased competition in AI-driven compliance tools could erode UpCodes' market share.

Differentiation

UpCodes offers a comprehensive platform for building code compliance.
The new Copilot tool uses AI to streamline building code navigation.
UpCodes' platform includes a searchable database covering all state regulations.

Upsides

UpCodes raised $3.36M in pre-Series A funding, boosting its growth potential.
The legal victory against ICC strengthens UpCodes' position in the market.
AI-driven predictive analytics reduce costly revisions in construction projects.

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