Senior Product Designer

About Topanga

At Topanga, we’re transforming kitchen operations with AI-powered solutions that help leading commercial kitchens waste less and save more. Our products, including the award-winning ReusePass program and StreamLine, a food waste mitigation and workflow automation tool, are used by industry leaders to drive measurable impact and cost savings. Win. Win.

We’re an early-stage technology company with product-market fit, entering our next phase of explosive growth. We have a strong sense of mission and direction, accompanied by constant testing and iteration.

Our team is a passionate mix of technologists, foodies, designers, and problem solvers who believe that building efficient systems can create a future of abundance. We’re passionate about solving hard problems—through questioning, debate, and ultimately committing to a shared direction, we create solutions that matter.

What to Expect

Today, we're a remote-first team with a main office hub in LA, where the team goes in 2-3 days per week. The rest of our team is distributed across the U.S., with a growing presence in NYC. We strive to compensate and offer benefits that are above market for the given role and stage of the company. Pay may be a combination of salary, commission, and/or equity depending on role and seniority. Full time employees are eligible for health benefits and 401k enrollment.

You should expect a self-regulated PTO policy and a culture that promotes using at least three continuous weeks every year. (Yes, 12 days of camping with no cell service is encouraged—fresh air is good for us). We sign off at 2:30 p.m. on Fridays, observe long weekends, and respect that some days, you wake up and your head just ain’t in it.

We encourage each other's pursuit of hobbies, passions, and experiences outside of work. We acknowledge that careers tend to be zig-zags, not straight lines. This is great as long as the time spent working is fulfilling. Basically, our jobs do not define us, but they can add purpose.

About the Role

Topanga is seeking a Senior Product Designer to help us create delightfully simple solutions that reduce waste. The Senior Product Designer will be a key contributor to the UX, UI and interaction design of our products as well as play a crucial role in shaping our digital identity and design systems.

Who You Are

You're a product designer who can take requirements from wireframe to high-fidelity design with an equal emphasis on UX and visual excellence. You have a sharp eye for detail and take pride in creating polished, intuitive and rewarding interfaces. You obsesses over user needs and friction makes you cringe.

You are passionate about your craft and are constantly looking for ways to elevate the look, feel and function of our products. You excel at visual and interaction design and care deeply about the quality of our work. You love thinking of creative ways to make experiences more engaging and you may even be passionate about designing for behavior change. You’re not afraid of complex problems and are excited by the idea of working across different types of form factors.

You enjoy collaborating and ideally have experience working directly with product managers and engineers to bring your vision to life. You should be able to defend your design decisions with clear rationale and understand when to make pragmatic compromises.

Above all, you care deeply about both our everyday work and our greater mission.

• Design user flows that are clear and efficient
• Create wireframes and prototypes to explore, test and gather feedback on UX and interaction patterns
• Craft high-fidelity, dev-ready designs with comprehensive specifications
• Help to define the visual direction across various products + audiences
• Create and maintain design systems and UI libraries across products and guide implementation with developers
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to define, design and develop features
• Contribute to and help evolve the creative identity of our products

• Several years of product design experience evidenced by an excellent portfolio that demonstrates both UX and visual capabilities. This is not an intro-level role.
• Deep understanding of responsive design and UI patterns
• Strong knowledge of design system creation and maintenance, including the ability to create and maintain component libraries in Figma
• Excellence in visual communication and design rationale
• Understanding of front-end development principles and experience working with engineers to bring products to life
• Experience ensuring work adheres to accessibility standards

• Experience designing across various touchpoints and form factors
• Experience designing data visualizations or dashboards
• Experience with service design
• Motion design capabilities
• Illustration/graphic design capabilities
• Experience creating and managing design tokens

Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.