Full-Time

Senior Designer

Zoo

Zoo

51-200 employees

GPU-powered hardware design toolkit and services

Compensation Overview

$145k - $195k/yr

+ Equity

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Hybrid

Category
UI/UX & Design (1)
Required Skills
UI/UX Design
Figma
Product Design
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Marketing, Design, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
  • 5+ years of experience in a broad design role spanning product design, web design, brand, or growth design for a technical product
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating versatility across software products, websites, and visual design systems
  • Exceptional UI/UX instincts with the ability to simplify complex workflows into intuitive experiences
  • Professional expertise with Figma creating and maintaining design systems
  • Experience using AI tools to automate design workflows
  • Experience collaborating closely with engineering teams and shipping high-quality digital products
  • Strong visual design skills including typography, layout, hierarchy, and brand consistency
  • Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment with ambiguity and shifting priorities
  • Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple parallel design workstreams
Responsibilities
  • Own our next phase of design across Zoo’s full ecosystem, including product, website, tutorials, documentation, brand, and marketing surfaces
  • Design intuitive product experiences and workflows for complex technical tools
  • Support website design and optimization, improving storytelling, conversion, visual polish, and brand consistency
  • Create tutorials, onboarding flows, product education assets, and visual learning content that help users adopt the platform quickly
  • Build, maintain, and evolve a scalable design system in Figma across product and web experiences
  • Design wireframes, prototypes, polished UI, graphics, presentations, and launch assets as needed
  • Partner closely with engineering to ensure designs are implemented with high quality and strong user experience standards
  • Collaborate with leadership on brand direction, creative strategy, and company-wide visual identity
  • Gather user feedback, run usability testing, and continuously improve experiences across customer touchpoints
  • Document systems, workflows, and design processes to create leverage as the company scales
  • Raise the quality bar across the company through strong taste, thoughtful execution, and user-centered thinking
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience designing technical products such as developer tools, CAD software, 3D tools, or B2B SaaS platforms
  • Experience creating tutorials, onboarding systems, or educational product content
  • Familiarity with front-end technologies such as React or TypeScript
  • Experience with motion design, illustration, or video content
  • Interest in hardware, engineering, manufacturing, or computational design
  • Experience working with open-source communities or technical users

KittyCAD.io provides infrastructure for hardware design, offering a GPU-powered engine with remote streaming and an Open API to support both pre-built tools and client-developed applications. Its Modeling AppPublic Alpha combines point-and-click CAD with code editing, and its Text-to-CAD interface helps automate workflows. The product suite accelerates design processes through machine learning and autoscaling infrastructure, while reducing hardware requirements and costs. KittyCAD.io differentiates itself with a GPU-accelerated, streaming-enabled platform that works across devices and operating systems, and by offering customizable tooling via an Open API, allowing hobbyists, startups, and enterprises to build, deploy, and scale hardware design tools more efficiently. The company’s goal is to save engineering time and resources, enable flexible tool development, and lower the barriers to hardware design by providing scalable, automated infrastructure.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$5M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • SOC 2 Type II compliance builds enterprise trust for secure hardware design.
  • Free desktop app with 40 AI credits attracts hobbyists and startups broadly.
  • ML-ephant APIs deliver predictive manufacturing feedback, accelerating iterations.

What critics are saying

  • Autodesk Fusion 360's $70 pro plans capture 10M users, eroding Zoo subscriptions.
  • Zookeeper hallucinations produce invalid B-rep geometry, risking manufacturing lawsuits.
  • SolidWorks 2026 native Text-to-CAD pulls enterprises with validated 5M licenses.

What makes Zoo unique

  • Zoo Design Studio launches first GPU-based, cloud-scalable geometry engine in May 2025.
  • Text-to-CAD and Zookeeper enable seamless hybrid workflows of prompts, code, and clicks.
  • Generates editable B-rep models without meshes, supporting Git version control.

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Health Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Hybrid Work Options

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Remote Work Options

Stock Options

Competitive Equity

Wellness Program

Company News

PR Newswire
May 28th, 2025
Zoo Launches Zoo Design Studio

The First Professional CAD Platform Powered by Generative AI LOS ANGELES, May 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Zoo, a company that creates infrastructure for hardware design, today announced the launch of Zoo Design Studio, a unified CAD suite for engineering and manufacturing companies of all sizes. Included in Zoo Design Studio is Text-to-CAD, a feature that enables design engineers to leverage the power of generative AI to create complex designs in seconds.  The new service is available via subscription, starting from free and with advanced features included in paid tiers, from $99 per month. Zoo Design Studio allows customers to flexibly weave edits to their designs between traditional point-and-click interactions, programmatic interactions with code, and text prompt interactions via Text-to-CAD. This allows the customer to choose any of these three approaches within one common environment. Zoo Design Studio is built using their proprietary geometry engine, which is the world's first to be GPU-based, cloud-implemented, API-accessible, and dynamically scalable

VC News Daily
Oct 5th, 2023
Kittycad Closes $5M Seed Financing

KittyCAD Closes $5M Seed Financing Back to HomeMALIBU, CA, KittyCAD a company developing advanced tools for hardware design, has closed a $5M Series Seed financing led by Venrex Partners.KittyCAD a company developing advanced tools for hardware design, has closed a $5M Series Seed financing led by Venrex Partners, a UK-based Venture Capital firm. The round also included participation from USC's Viterbi School of Engineering, Gaingels, Kelvin Beachum, Matt Terrell, Undeterred Capital, Liquid 2, Tom Preston-Werner's Family Office, Madrona Venture Group, Bernie Lagrange, and Nat Friedman.(c)2011-2020 by Massinvestor, Inc. For contact info, please check out our about page

Peerless Media
Oct 4th, 2023
KittyCAD Updates API, Adds Geometry Engine

KittyCAD, a company that develops advanced tools for hardware design, has released geometry engine capabilities on its application programming interface.

PR Newswire
Oct 3rd, 2023
KITTYCAD ANNOUNCES UPDATED API WITH HIGHLY ANTICIPATED GEOMETRY ENGINE CAPABILITIES

/PRNewswire/ -- KittyCAD, the world's only company to develop advanced tools for hardware design, announced today the release of first-ever geometry engine...

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