7shifts is hiring a Product Designer

7shifts is a scheduling and payroll platform designed to help restaurant teams thrive. With an easy-to-use app and industry-specific solutions, 7shifts saves time, reduces errors, and helps keep costs in check for over 55,000 restaurants. Our mission is to simplify team management and improve performance for restaurants, with a long-term vision of creating a thriving restaurant industry through the power of connected & engaged teams. As a Product Designer at 7shifts, you're building solutions that restaurants actually need. You own the entire process: from identifying pain points with operators and teams, to designing and testing concepts, to shipping and iterating in production faster than a drive-thru window. You work with cross-functional partners to move from problems to shipped product experiences that change how restaurants run. Design at 7shifts is hands-on and builder-first. Work starts with customer research, moves into AI-powered exploration tools, gets prototyped and tested with real restaurants, then comes into Figma for systems and polish. You stay involved through launch and iteration, you don’t just hand it off. You see how restaurants use your work and ship the iterations that stick. What you’ll do: Research by talking to operators, managers, and teams. Identify what's costing them time and money. Empathize with how many hours are spent on scheduling, how payroll errors drain margins. Let that guide what you design. Do it for them Prototype fast. Test ideas with customers early. Kill bad concepts before they hit the team Iterate based on what you learn Own the design. You decide what the experience should be. You partner with Product and Engineers through implementation. You're not handing off. You're making sure it ships right. Build depth. Study your product area until you know the problems better than anyone. Use that to spot opportunities others miss and what our customers don't know how to articulate Use AI to move faster. Start with Claude to clarify the problem, draft approaches, and surface risks and edge cases. Use this to align your team quickly. Then prototype simple solutions, testing flows before they hit Figma Show your work. Contribute to design reviews, shared prompts, workflows and critiques that raise everyone's level Ship often. You feel that pull when customers start using what you made. You know the difference between shipping fast and shipping right, and you do both What you bring: 3+ years as a product designer on cross-functional teams, ideally in SaaS You've shipped work. You know research, ideation, prototyping, testing, and iteration aren't steps in a process. They're how you think You actively use AI in your work. You can explain how it changed your process You can move fast from rough sketches to high-fidelity prototypes in Figma and Claude. You know how to collaborate to get things done with urgency You talk clearly about your decisions. You can defend a design choice and listen when you're wrong Your portfolio shows your thinking, not just the output. We want to see the problem you solved and how you got there. It’d be even cooler if you had: Experience with Agile software development practices Previous experience in the restaurant-tech industry or working in a restaurant setting This role is an existing vacancy and is part of our current hiring plan Compensation The base compensation range for this position is 80,000-115,000. This range reflects the full growth path for the role, from building core skills to accomplished performance, through to role mastery. We typically target the accomplished level when hiring externally. At this level, individuals bring relevant experience in the role, demonstrate strong job-related skills, operate with confidence and consistency, and are able to deliver impact with limited ramp-up while still having meaningful opportunity to grow. Compensation at 7shifts is performance and growth-driven. As you develop your skills and expand your impact over time, your compensation grows with you. Your specific placement within this range is based on your job-related skills, knowledge, and experience, as well as our internal equity assessment. We are always happy to discuss our approach throughout the hiring process.