UI Designer

**About FreshAhead, Inc.**

FreshAhead runs daily operations across one of the largest fresh-cut produce ecosystems in the world. Fields, facilities, trucks, forecasts… our software lives in the physical world, where it either works or it doesn't.

**What we're building**

Software for people who don't have time for bad software. The interface has to be fast, legible, and obvious under real conditions.

**Who we're looking for**

A designer with real visual craft who also understands why a screen works, not just how to make it look good. We're titling this role UI on purpose. A lot of people claim UX, but we want to see the pixels. The job runs the full width: research and structure through to high-fidelity and handoff.

You might be a fit if:

• You have a portfolio that shows genuine visual and interaction craft, and you can walk us through the why behind the work.
• You're fluent in Figma, prototyping, and design systems.
• You're grounded in the fundamentals: research, information architecture, interaction design.
• You design for the real user in the real context, and you go find out what that context actually is.
• You hand off clean, and you stay engaged through implementation.

**What you'll do**

• Own the interface: high-fidelity design, interaction, and the visual language across every surface of the product.
• Build and maintain a design system that holds up as the product and team grow.
• Do the upstream work (information architecture, flows, wireframes) before committing to hi-fi.
• Talk to users. Run interviews and usability tests, and turn what you learn into concrete design changes.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and Customer Experience from concept through shipped.

**What this isn't**

This isn't a role where Product hands you a spec and you skin it. This isn't visual-only. If you want to do interface polish without touching research or structure, this is the wrong seat. We want a designer who owns the problem from question to pixel.

**What you'll get**

Ownership of the product's entire interface and design system, real users with real problems to design for, and a team that cares about the craft.

**On-site, San Luis Obispo, CA. Compensation commensurate with experience.**