User Experience Designer (UI/UX)

About the role

Paathz is an AI-native hospitality workforce platform connecting pre-vetted professionals with hotels and restaurants across Southeast Asia, Europe and the Middle East. It is Singapore-incorporated and approaches a May 2026 beta launch. The company is looking for a UI/UX designer who thinks in systems, flows and user psychology, owning the end-to-end user experience from candidate onboarding to recruiter dashboards.

Key responsibilities

• Design intuitive, scalable, high-impact user experiences across web platforms
• Turn complex workflows such as AI matching, hiring pipelines and analytics into simple, elegant UI
• Create wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity designs using tools like Figma
• Work closely with Product, Engineering and the Founders to ship fast and iterate faster
• Conduct user research, usability testing and feedback analysis
• Build and maintain a design system for consistency and scalability
• Optimize user journeys to improve engagement, conversion and retention, thinking mobile-first even when designing for web

Required profile

• 1-4 years of experience in UI/UX design; startup experience preferred
• Strong portfolio showing problem-solving, not just visuals
• Solid understanding of user behavior, interaction design and information architecture
• Ability to simplify complex systems into intuitive interfaces
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a bias for action

Required skills

• Figma, Adobe XD or Sketch
• Bonus: experience designing for SaaS, HRTech or AI products
• Bonus: basic frontend knowledge (HTML/CSS)
• Bonus: design systems and component libraries, data visualization and dashboards

What we offer

• Direct work with founders on core product decisions
• High ownership and zero bureaucracy
• Opportunity to shape a category-defining product
• Fast growth, steep learning curve and real impact
• Competitive compensation plus performance incentives