Product Designer Associate (Designer de Produto Associado) - São Paulo [Hybrid]

Job description

## **Ready to accelerate your career?** Clara is the fastest-growing company in Latin America. We've built the leading solution for companies to make and manage all their payments. We already help over 20,000 large and growing businesses operate with agility and financial clarity through locally issued corporate cards, bill pay, financing, and a powerful B2B platform built for scale. Clara is backed by some of the most successful investors in the world, including top regional VCs like monashees, Kaszek, and Canary, and leading global funds like Notable Capital, Coatue, DST Global Partners, ICONIQ Growth, General Catalyst, Citi Ventures, SV Angel, Citius, Endeavor Catalyst, and Goldman Sachs - in addition to dozens of angel investors and local family offices. We’re building the financial infrastructure that powers high-performing organizations across the region. We invite you to join us if you want to be part of a fast-paced environment that will accelerate your career and support you to do some of the best work of your life alongside a passionate and committed team distributed across the Americas. ## About the role As a Product Designer at Clara, you’ll work closely with cross-functional partners, executing design strategies that align with business goals and supporting product launches. You’ll complement your design process with AI, with the judgment to decide what to apply, when to go deep, and when to move fast and ship. ## Responsibilities - Collaborate with cross-functional partners as part of our always-on discovery pipeline to shape product requirements. - Conduct user research and testing, using AI for desk research and synthesis while owning the rigor of the insights. - Turn ambiguous problems into flows and interfaces that work for users and the business alike. - Use AI tools to go from idea to a functional, testable prototype in days, not weeks. - Ensure quality and consistency across all deliverables, including AI-assisted work, and help grow our agentic design system. - Own the UX performance of the products you design, and drive the improvements that follow. ## Who you are - Experience as a Product, UX, or Interaction Designer, having owned design work end to end, from discovery to shipped product, with a portfolio that shows it. - Daily, hands-on use of AI in your design workflow (Claude, Figma AI, v0, or similar), driven by real curiosity to keep pushing what it can do. - Experience in user research and usability testing, from planning and running studies to synthesizing insights that shape design decisions. - A bias for shipping, with fast iterations, early testing, and refining out in the open. - Strong attention to detail and a passion for beautiful, functional, and engaging design. - Proficiency in Figma or similar design and prototyping tools. - Clear, confident communication, comfortable presenting and defending your design decisions. - Good English level. ## Nice to have - Frontend knowledge that helps you communicate more easily with engineering. - Comfortable with Git and the command line. - Experience with structured, agent-ready guidelines, docs built for both humans and AI to use. - A history of building your own skills, apps, or tools to make part of a process more efficient. ## **Why join Clara** At Clara, you’ll have the autonomy, speed, and support to make meaningful impact — not just on your team, but on how organizations are run across Latin America. #### **Who we are** - We’re the leading **B2B fintech for spend management** in Latin America. - Certified as one of the world's fastest-growing companies, a **Great Place to Work**, and a **LinkedIn Top Startup**. - Passionate about making Latin America more prosperous and competitive. - Constantly innovating to build financial infrastructure that enables each of our customers to thrive. - Product-led, high-talent-density culture — designed for builders who raise the bar. - Proud of our open, inclusive, and values-driven environment. #### **What we believe in** - **#Clarity.** We say things clearly, directly, and proactively. - **#Simplicity.** We reduce noise to focus on what really matters. - **#Ownership.** We take responsibility and never wait to be told. - **#Pride.** We build products and experiences we’re proud of. - **#Always Be Changing (ABC).** We grow through feedback, risk-taking, and action. - **#Inclusivity.** Every voice counts. Everyone contributes to our mission. #### **What we offer** - Competitive salary and stock options (**ESOP**) from day one - Multicultural team with daily exposure to **Portuguese, Spanish, and English** (our corporate language) - Annual learning budget and internal accelerated development paths - High-ownership environment: we move fast, learn fast, and raise the bar — together - Smart, ambitious teammates — low ego, high impact - Flexible vacation and **hybrid work model** focused on results If you’re ready for growth, ownership, and impact — apply now and help us redefine B2B finance in Latin America. --- #### Clara’s Hybrid Policy Claridians in a hybrid mode split their time between working from the office, talking to or visiting customers, or working from home. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for each individual and team. We don't enforce a minimum number of days for most roles, but you're expected to spend time at the office organically, and be at the office most days during your ramp-up or when required by your leader.