Product Designer

What you’ll do

Product design craft

Research & problem solving

Collaboration & delivery

Nice-to-have

• Experience designing enterprise SaaS, infrastructure platforms, or technically sophisticated B2B products.
• Experience contributing to or scaling design systems.
• Familiarity with geospatial, engineering, or data-visualisation products.
• Nice-to-have

Characteristics we look for

Why work here

Qualifications

• Product design craft
• 4+ years of experience in UX or product design roles, ideally in SaaS or complex software environments.
• Strong experience across the full design lifecycle: discovery, wireframing, prototyping, high-fidelity design, and validation.
• Ability to design elegant solutions for technically complex workflows and data-rich products.
• Research & problem solving
• Experience conducting user research and discovery activities including interviews, surveys, usability testing, and product analysis.
• Strong ability to break down ambiguous problems, identify unknowns, and define structured paths forward.
• Confident using user insights and design principles to explain and defend design decisions.
• Collaboration & delivery
• Experience working closely in cross-functional teams with product managers and engineers.
• Comfortable navigating fast-paced startup, scale-up, or consulting-style environments.
• Able to move fluidly between tactical design execution and strategic product thinking.
• Experience designing enterprise SaaS, infrastructure platforms, or technically sophisticated B2B products.
• Experience contributing to or scaling design systems.
• Familiarity with geospatial, engineering, or data-visualisation products.
• Characteristics we look for
• No-ego, outcome-oriented team players. We back each other and win together.
• Curious designers who ask thoughtful questions and seek to deeply understand users before solving.
• Pragmatic problem solvers who balance ideal design with real-world constraints.
• Strong communicators who can articulate rationale clearly across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborative partners who welcome feedback and contribute positively across disciplines.
• Confident advocates for users, grounded in evidence rather than opinion.
• Self-directed operators who spot opportunities and take initiative to improve experiences.
• Why work here
• Competitive salary + ESOP. Significant career development and growth opportunities.
• Fully flexible working arrangements with a well-stocked office in Redfern.
• Highly meritocratic, non-bureaucratic, and no-ego work culture.
• The opportunity to work on complex, meaningful products and real-world problems.
• The opportunity to play a direct, critical role in the trajectory of a high growth company.
• Neara values diversity, belonging, and equal employment opportunities. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.

Responsibilities

• As a Product Designer at Neara, you’ll help drive discovery and design across multiple product initiatives, increasing our ability to solve customer problems in parallel and improve usability across the platform.
• Lead end-to-end design work from discovery through to delivery across new and existing product areas
• Conduct and synthesise user research including interviews, usability testing, surveys, and workflow analysis
• Translate complex product and technical requirements into intuitive workflows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI designs
• Partner closely with product managers and engineers to shape solutions that balance user value, technical feasibility, and business goals
• Identify usability issues and proactively drive improvements across the product experience
• Contribute to and evolve the Nitro Design System, improving consistency and design efficiency across teams
• Help visualise future product concepts and strategic product direction through exploratory design work
• Present work clearly to cross-functional stakeholders, incorporating feedback while advocating for strong user-centred decisions