Product Designer – 6-Month Maternity Leave Cover

Passionate about food and curious about what drives consumer choices? Join Tastewise and help shape the future of the food and beverage industry.

Tastewise is a human-and-agent food intelligence and marketing platform used by leading companies like PepsiCo, Nestlé, and Kraft Heinz to decide what products to launch, how to market them, and what ultimately makes it to the shelf.

We turn real consumer behavior into actionable insights, helping teams make smarter, faster decisions in a $10 trillion industry that impacts billions of people every day.

If you’re excited about turning data into real-world impact and being part of a collaborative team with a clear mission, this is the place for you!

About the role:

We are looking for a Product Designer to cover a 6-month maternity leave. This is a solo-designer role by nature: you'll own live product work from week one, running your own surfaces end to end, sitting at the intersection of complex data and intuitive visual storytelling.

Because the window is six months, we care far more about how fast you ramp, learn, and decide on your own than about how many years you have on paper. If you are the kind of designer who reads the product, forms an opinion, and ships, you will do well here.

What You'll Do:

• Own design end to end for several product areas in parallel: discovery, flows, UI, prototypes, pixel-perfect handoff, and QA of what actually ships.
• Design AI-native experiences: conversational and agentic interfaces, generated content, states of uncertainty, and the trust and control patterns that help food industry professionals navigate our AI insights with ease.
• Maintain and extend our design system on both sides: components and tokens in Figma, and their real counterparts in the code repo.
• Work directly with engineers, product managers, marketing, and internal product builders, without a layer of translation in between.
• Use AI tooling as part of your daily craft, from exploration through to working prototypes and, where it helps, real code.
• Hold a holistic view of the product: how a single screen serves the user, the workflow it sits in, and the business outcome behind it.
  
  

• 3+ years designing digital products. We weigh evidence of speed and independent judgment above the number itself.
• Hands-on AI tooling. Figma Make, Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalents, used in real work rather than experiments. You should be able to show what you built with them and what you decided not to.
• Design systems experience, including ownership. Not only consuming a system, but building, governing, and evolving one, in Figma and in the code repo.
• Systematic thinking. You design for scale and consistency, and you can hold product, business, and user perspectives at the same time.
• Multi-project throughput. Comfortable running several workstreams at once with developers, marketing, product, and internal builders.
• Self-direction. You take an ambiguous problem, break it down yourself, and come back with a proposal rather than a list of questions.
  
  

• Working comfort in a Git repo: branches, pull requests, reviewing what shipped against what you designed.
• Coding ability at the level of implementing or adjusting your own design in code.
• Experience as a solo or first designer in a startup.
• Marketing or brand design range: landing pages, campaign assets, decks, product marketing surfaces.
• B2B SaaS, data-heavy products, or enterprise workflows.