Full-Time

Senior Product Designer

Baton Trucking

Baton Trucking

51-200 employees

Reduces detention via 24/7 drop yards

Compensation Overview

$140k - $190k/yr

+ Bonus

San Francisco, CA, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid schedule: on-site Tue-Wed-Thu at the Hayes Valley office; remote Mon and Fri.

Category
UI/UX & Design (1)
Required Skills
LLM
Data Visualization
Figma
Product Design

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Requirements
  • 5+ years of product design experience (or equivalent) and a track record of shipping meaningful work. Able to speak clearly about your role, decisions, and outcomes.
  • Experience designing complex, information-dense products (e.g., operational tools, planning workflows, dashboards, or other systems where speed, accuracy, and clarity matter).
  • Strong cross-functional partnership skills. Comfortable collaborating day-to-day with Product and Engineering to shape scope, make tradeoffs, and deliver iteratively.
  • A strong sense of ownership and initiative: you proactively spot friction, propose improvements, and follow through without needing heavy oversight.
  • Systems-level thinking: you can define a coherent end-to-end experience, then break it into incremental releases that a team can build and iterate on.
  • High craft + technical fluency: you can design elegant, usable interfaces for complex workflows, and you work comfortably within real engineering constraints (states, edge cases, data, performance).
  • Proficiency in Figma and a practical curiosity about emerging AI tools (LLMs, generative workflows, prototyping/automation) that can improve how you design and how products get built.
  • A portfolio that shows end-to-end case studies, problem framing, exploration, decisions/tradeoffs, collaboration, and shipped outcomes (not just visuals).
Responsibilities
  • Own end-to-end design projects from discovery and research through prototyping, testing, and implementation
  • Partner with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to translate complex logistics problems into intuitive solutions and clearly advocate for the design rationale behind them
  • Design for AI-driven and data-heavy interfaces where clarity and usability directly affect operational decisions
  • Maintain and evolve our design system, partnering with engineers to drive adoption and consistent implementation
  • Partner closely with key stakeholders to translate business objectives and user insights into innovative and feasible design solutions
Desired Qualifications
  • You thrive in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities, and you know how to create clarity amid ambiguity.
  • Experience in B2B SaaS or operational domains (logistics/supply chain a plus), designing for real-world constraints and high-frequency users.
  • Experience designing for AI-assisted products (recommendations, automation, explainability, trust, and human-in-the-loop workflows)

Baton Trucking manages a network of drop zones and trailer pools designed to eliminate the hours truck drivers spend waiting to load or unload cargo. Long-haul drivers drop their trailers at these 24/7 secured yards so local drivers can handle the final delivery, allowing the long-haul driver to pick up a new load and depart in as little as 15 minutes. Unlike competitors that focus solely on digital tracking, Baton provides physical infrastructure and a relay model that decouples the long-haul journey from warehouse appointments. The company's goal is to increase driver productivity and reduce supply chain waste by expanding this network of drop zones to major transit hubs across the country.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$13.8M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2019

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What believers are saying

  • Baton.io updated May 16, 2026, showing active product investment inside Ryder.
  • Ryder promotes Baton to 50,000+ customers and $10B freight under management.
  • RyderShare’s real-time visibility and exception management match urgent shipper demand for faster resolution.

What critics are saying

  • project44 and FourKites dominate freight visibility, squeezing RyderShare’s differentiation by 2026.
  • Ryder filed 21 WARN notices affecting 2,567 workers through July 2026, signaling cost pressure.
  • If Ryder de-prioritizes Baton amid integration work, Baton becomes a thin internal tool.

What makes Baton Trucking unique

  • Ryder owns Baton since August 31, 2022, embedding product inside a Fortune 500 operator.
  • Baton powers RyderShare, a single-pane visibility layer with real-time tracking and audit trails.
  • Baton’s software directly targets detention, routing, and scheduling, not generic logistics dashboards.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Hybrid Work Options

Performance Bonus

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

49%

1 year growth

49%

2 year growth

36%
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