Product Engineer (UX Focus)

✨ About us

Backed by Tier-1 VC Lerer Hippeau, Matchstick VC, Tower Research Capital, Antler, MBA Ventures, and onboarded Mike Witte as an adviser and investor. Backed by Tier-1 VC Lerer Hippeau, Matchstick VC, Tower Research Capital, Antler, MBA Ventures, and onboarded Mike Witte as an adviser and investor.

Mentium solves B2B payment (data) problems within the supply chain and logistics industry.

We leverage in-house built AI to ingest emails, capture, structure, and match payment-related documents while ensuring continuous AI-powered audits of all accounts payable and accounts receivable transactions in logistics.

We are targeting underserved a $2 trillion (by 2030) market in the US alone. Capturing even less than 1% of this market will make us a billion-dollar company.

🧠 Founding Team

The founding team has an extensive background in the finance and supply chain industry, consulting, and building ML platforms.

• Matthieu - CTO & Co-founder: Matt built machine learning solutions at Brain Corp for 3 years. After that, he became a founding team member at Paragon, a YC-backed Series A startup, where he architected and developed system integrations from 0 to 1.

• Aziz  - CEO & Co-founder: Aziz is an MIT MBA candidate and a graduate of Johns Hopkins with over 10 years of experience in supply chain logistics and finance. He spent 7 years at BCG, where he led multi-million dollar growth efforts within the supply chain and logistics industry. Afterward, he founded and scaled a logistics company to $10M in ARR within 15 months and successfully exited.

🚀 Our Culture

• Customer Obsession: We are relentlessly focused on exceeding customer expectations, driving success through deep empathy and dedication.
• Transparency and Open Communication: We believe in honest, transparent communication to ensure clarity and mutual understanding in all our interactions.
• Relationships Over Profits: We prioritize people and partnerships, valuing long-term relationships over short-term financial gains.

About the Role

We're looking for a Product Engineer with a strong focus on User Experience (UX) to join our founding team. This crucial role will serve as the bridge between our customers and the engineering team, ensuring that we deliver intuitive user experiences that solve complex problems for our B2B logistics customers. You'll work at the intersection of design and engineering, leveraging innovative generative AI solutions to create industry-leading UX.

You will collaborate closely with customers to understand their pain points and design user experiences that address their needs. Your work will shape the core user experience of the Mentium AI-driven platform, significantly impacting how logistics and finance teams interact with new technologies. You will become the bridge between customers and our engineering team, playing a vital role in translating user requirements into technical specifications.

What You’ll Do

• Lead UX design initiatives, collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver solutions that meet real customer needs.
• Use Figma and other design tools to create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that reflect customer problems and business goals.
• Translate complex AI-driven workflows into simple, user-friendly interfaces for B2B logistics professionals.
• Write code to implement new wireframes and prototypes
• Work with generative AI technologies to create innovative solutions that enhance the user experience.
• Iterate on designs based on user feedback and data, ensuring we consistently deliver best-in-class user experiences.
• Balance speed and quality to deliver quick prototypes, as well as polished production-ready experiences.

What We’re Looking For

• 4+ years of experience in UX/Product Engineering: You have a strong understanding of UX principles and the ability to translate complex problems into simple solutions.
• Frontend Engineer: You can code and implement prototypes using Typescript.
• Experience with Figma: You are proficient in using Figma to design wireframes, user flows, and interactive prototypes.
• Background in solving customer problems: You thrive on diving into customer issues and finding elegant, scalable solutions that meet their needs.
• Experience in B2B SaaS and logistics: You are familiar with the unique challenges of B2B and logistics and know how to create experiences that cater to those users.
• Innovative approach to AI-driven UX: You are excited about using generative AI to rethink and improve traditional workflows, delivering unique, value-driven experiences.
• Collaborative and iterative mindset: You enjoy working cross-functionally and iterating quickly, balancing design ambition with business priorities.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience designing AI-powered products
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (React, TypeScript)
• A portfolio showcasing UX design for complex, data-rich applications

What We Offer

• New laptop/equipment of your choice
• Top-of-the-line health, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• (Optional) Relocation to Austin