Original job description
About Cashew Research
Cashew Research is an AI-powered research platform that makes sophisticated market research more accessible, helping businesses move from questions to insights with more speed, structure, and confidence.
We combine research expertise, AI, and purpose-built software to help users move from a business question to a research plan, survey, audience, data, and report in one connected workflow, without losing the rigor and strategic thinking that great research requires.
As we continue to grow, we are looking for a UX Product Designer to help make complex research workflows feel clear, intuitive, and easy to use.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for an experienced UX Product Designer to help shape the next stage of Cashew’s platform and strengthen the design foundation we build from.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys designing SaaS products and wants to help create the structure behind how design gets done. Beyond designing individual features, you’ll help evolve our design system, define reusable UX patterns, improve consistency across the platform, and create standards that help our product and engineering teams move faster with more clarity.
You should be comfortable working in an early-stage startup environment where not everything is fully defined yet. We need someone who can bring strong design craft, practical product judgment, and enough structure to help us scale without slowing the team down.
What You'll Do
Design thoughtful, user-centered experiences across Cashew’s research platform
Simplify complex workflows such as study setup, survey creation, audience targeting, data collection, reporting, dashboards, and analysis
Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity mockups, and detailed design handoff documentation
Design polished research outputs and reporting experiences that help users turn insights into business-ready materials, including executive summaries, board-ready reports, presentation-friendly takeaways, and social-ready content
Help evolve and maintain Cashew’s design system, including components, variants, accessibility considerations, interaction patterns, and usage guidelines
Define reusable design standards so similar product experiences are handled consistently across the platform
Create structure for how design work is documented, reviewed, handed off, and implemented
Work closely with engineers to ensure designs are feasible, scalable, and aligned with the component system
Partner with product, research, and customer-facing team members to understand user needs, pain points, and business requirements
Translate customer feedback, internal QA findings, and product strategy into clear UX improvements
Design AI-assisted product experiences, including how users review, edit, trust, and act on AI-generated outputs
Support usability testing, user feedback sessions, and design iteration where needed
Balance polished UX with startup speed, technical trade-offs, and business priorities
Who We're Looking For
5+ years of product design, UX/UI design, or related experience
Experience designing SaaS products, B2B software, workflow tools, dashboards, analytics products, or similarly complex digital platforms
Strong UX thinking and the ability to turn ambiguous requirements into clear, intuitive product experiences
Strong visual design skills, with attention to layout, hierarchy, interaction patterns, and detail
Experience designing end-to-end flows, not just individual screens
Experience contributing to or owning a design system, component library, or product design standards
Advanced Figma skills, including components, variants, prototyping, and design system organization
Comfort creating structure in a fast-moving environment without overcomplicating the process
Comfort collaborating closely with engineers, product leads, researchers, and company leadership
Strong communication skills and the ability to explain design decisions clearly
Preference for candidates with experience designing polished, client-ready outputs such as reports, dashboards, executive summaries, presentation templates, or shareable content that helps users communicate insights clearly and professionally
A portfolio that shows shipped product work, thoughtful UX decisions, strong visual execution, and ideally experience designing complex reports, dashboards, templates, or other business-ready outputs
Why Cashew Research?
At the core of Cashew Research is a commitment to building an incredible team that creates exceptional experiences for our users. We’re an ambitious, early-stage company building technology in a category that is changing quickly. We move fast, learn constantly, and are looking for people who want to help shape both the product and how we build it.
This is a strong fit for someone who wants ownership, variety, and the opportunity to work on meaningful product problems. You’ll be joining a small team where your work will have a direct impact on the user experience, our design foundation, and the future of the platform.
Join Us
Please submit your resume and portfolio. We’re especially interested in seeing examples of complex product flows, SaaS products, design systems, dashboards, AI-assisted experiences, or other work where you helped bring structure and consistency to a growing product.
Location: Remote (All across Canada)
