About the role
About BlastPoint
BlastPoint is a B2B data analytics startup located in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. We give companies the power to engage with customers more effectively by discovering the humans in their data and understanding customer journeys. Serving diverse industries including energy, finance, retail, and transportation, BlastPoint’s Customer Intelligence Platform makes data accessible to business users so they can plan solutions to customer-facing challenges, from encouraging green behavior to managing customers’ financial stress. Founded in 2016 by Carnegie Mellon Alumni, we are a tight-knit, forward-thinking team.
Why You Should Work for Us
- Solve Challenging Problems: BlastPoint’s platform incorporates cutting-edge approaches to geospatial data, psychographic clustering, data enrichment and a dynamic visualization environment, all at scale. We’re working to break new ground by pulling insights from high-dimensional data. And we’re pushing ourselves to try new and better ways to approach every step of our process.
- Have An Impact: Small but mighty, BlastPoint’s growth is due to big companies increasingly trusting us with supporting key decisions using their most sensitive data. What we do positively impacts the lives of millions of Americans (and beyond).
- Make Positive Change in the World: Our solutions reduce paper consumption, help struggling families pay their bills, and promote clean energy. We also offer our platform for free to nonprofits and civic-oriented organizations.
- Employee-Focused Culture: We support the individual needs of our team, offering schedule and work-from-home flexibility, health insurance, 401K, and three weeks of PTO. We also tailor growth opportunities, from skills training to industry conferences.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: BlastPoint is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace, ensuring equal employment opportunities for individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.
Our Values
Everybody matters
We beat expectations
Innovation built on a foundation
Cards on the table, always
"The smartest systems from the most
comprehensive data built by the best people”
PRODUCT DESIGNER
SALARY: 80K - 95K
REMOTE
We are seeking a Product Designer to join our Platform Engineering team. This role requires someone who owns design direction and brings solutions to review, not problems to be solved for them. You'll work directly with Product and Engineering to ship features that help regulated industries make better decisions about their customers. This role emphasizes UX thinking: understanding user problems, shaping product direction, and designing solutions that work, not just interfaces that look right.
Primary duties for this position include
- Own design direction from problem framing through delivery. Translate business needs into design decisions without waiting for direction.
- Make and defend design recommendations. Present a point of view, not options. Know when to hold your position and when to incorporate feedback.
- Interpret scope broadly. Understand that examples indicate patterns, not boundaries.
- Contribute to our component-based design system by identifying reuse opportunities and new component requirements early.
- Ship work that catches gaps before review, not during. Self-edit against our Design Ethos without prompting.
- Drive AI integration in design workflows. Bring working practices and ideas for how AI can accelerate UX and production work.
Professional Requirements
- 3-5 years designing interactive digital products (from in-house, agency, or startup roles).
- Demonstrated ability to make design decisions and defend them under scrutiny. We will test this directly in the interview.
- Proficiency in Figma.
- Familiarity with web technologies and their design implications.
- Strong communication: you can articulate why, not just what.
- Active AI workflows in your design practice. We'll ask you to demonstrate specific tools, prompts, and outcomes.
- Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience designing for regulated industries (finance, utilities, healthcare) where design decisions affect real outcomes.
- Experience with data-dense interfaces, dashboards, or AI-powered products.
- Familiarity with behavior tracking tools (Amplitude, Pendo, Segment).
Interview Expectations
Our process includes a live design exercise where you'll critique real platform screens and make decisions under time pressure. We're evaluating judgment and response to feedback, not just craft.
