Product Designer

About Treeswift

In the face of rising threats like severe storms and wildfires, increasing pressure on affordability, and unprecedented demands for system expansion, Treeswift empowers energy companies to modernize their field work to meet the growth and challenges ahead.

To accomplish our mission we deploy our sensors into our customers' field operations, typically on backpacks or vehicles. The resulting trove of LiDAR and imagery data is processed through our AI models to deliver actionable analytics through our web platform. To date, our technology has enabled utilities to reduce wildfire, regulatory and outage risk from vegetation, avoid delays and cost overruns in new construction, and accelerate recovery from severe storms.

After starting our work with utilities in June 2024, we are now working with 3 of the 5 largest utilities in the United States and are rapidly expanding across new customers and use cases. To tackle this challenge we are bringing together a team of mission-driven experts with deep industry experience in robotics (Penn, Caltech, CMU) and enterprise software development (Palantir, Stripe, Oracle, MongoDB). We have raised funding from leading investors including Penny Pritzker's Inspired Capital.

Treeswift is headquartered in lower Manhattan, and maintains an office in Philadelphia. We also have some customer-facing team members based closer to our customer sites (i.e. Bay Area).

We hope you join us on this journey!

About the role

You will be Treeswift’s first full-time design hire joining at a pivotal moment: our product is used by some of the largest utilities in the country, and we are scaling from our work with early partners to become the broader platform for modern utility field operations.

This is a rare opportunity to define how design informs our product and organization from the ground up. You will own end-to-end product design across our web platform and hardware physical interfaces, shaping how customers interact with complex geospatial, imagery, and LiDAR data, and establish the design systems and product patterns that allow us to scale across customers, use cases, and teams.

You will be deeply hands-on in the early days, talking to users, mapping workflows, prototyping, designing core product experiences, and partnering closely with product and engineering to ship. You will set the tone for larger design organization: setting the bar for craft, developing repeatable design processes, and influencing the product strategy behind a new category of software and hardware for utilities.

This role is ideal for someone who wants significant ownership, comfortable with high ambiguity, and the chance to build the design function for a mission-driven company from its earliest stages.

What You’ll Do

• Own end-to-end product design. Contribute to design across Treeswift’s core platform, from discovery and workflow mapping through polished designs, prototypes, implementation details, and post-launch iteration.

• Design for complex, real-world operational decisions. Our users rely on Treeswift to inspect, triage, and act on data collected in the field. You will design interfaces that make dense, multidimensional data understandable and actionable for arborists, storm responders, and utility operations teams.

• Build scalable product and design systems. Own our design system, component library, interaction patterns, and visual language. Help turn customer-specific workflows into reusable primitives that keep the product coherent as we expand.

• Partner deeply across functions. Work closely with product, engineering, forward deployed engineers, customer teams, and sales to translate customer needs into high-quality product experiences.

• Shape design culture at Treeswift. At Treeswift, curiosity drives how we approach problems, and high ownership drives how we approach execution. We are looking for someone who leads by example in this regard, and creates an organization in which these values continue to thrive as we grow significantly.

Experience / Skills

• 5+ years of professional product design experience, including meaningful time shipping complex B2B, enterprise software.

• A portfolio that shows strong craft across interaction design, information design, and visual design, especially for data-dense interfaces.

• Comfort operating as a senior IC and a leader simultaneously. You can run a workshop with executives, sit with a field inspector, and build Figma design files and interactive prototypes.

• Demonstrated comfort with ambiguity and excitement to work in an early-stage environment. You can be scrappy when needed, and also have experience helping teams mature their design practices over time.

• Fluency designing and maintaining design systems in production.

Nice-to-have, but not required

• Experience designing for geospatial, 3D, or map-heavy interfaces.

• Prior work in utilities, energy, infrastructure, construction, logistics, or other sectors with a large field or industrial component.

What We Value

• Mission first. We value team members who are focused on working towards the best outcomes for the customer and the business.

• Curiosity. We are constantly learning — from each other and from our customers. We aren't afraid to learn we were wrong in the process and adapt our approach accordingly.

• Owners mindset. If you see an opportunity for improvement, run with it. We believe that good ideas can come from anywhere, no matter your role.

Work location

This is a full-time, hybrid role based out of our Lower Manhattan, NYC office (2 days per week in person, currently pinned to Tuesdays and Wednesdays).

Salary & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance

• Life insurance package and disability coverage

• Stock options

• Paid leave for new parents

• Unlimited PTO

• 401K

The estimated salary range for this position is $140,000 to $170,000 per year. Total compensation for this position is determined by skills, qualifications, relevant work experience, location, and other factors. This salary estimate excludes the value of any potential bonuses; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives. This information is provided per the New York City Human Rights Law. Please note that the range provided is applicable only to New York City-based applicants. Base compensation may vary if the work location is outside of New York City.

Treeswift  is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.

If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, whether it be alternate forms of material, accessible meeting rooms, etc., please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.