Application Guide

How to Apply for Senior Product Designer

at Glydways

🏢 About Glydways

Glydways is pioneering net-negative GHG autonomous transportation, creating affordable and eco-friendly mobility solutions that could revolutionize public transit. Unlike traditional transit companies, they're building a carbon-neutral network of autonomous vehicles on dedicated pathways that operates 24/7 without taxpayer subsidies. This represents a unique opportunity to work on groundbreaking technology that addresses climate change while improving urban mobility.

About This Role

As a Senior Product Designer at Glydways, you'll design end-to-end experiences for both riders and operators of their autonomous transit system. This role involves creating interfaces for entirely new transportation paradigms where users interact with autonomous vehicles and operators manage complex systems. You'll be solving novel design challenges that don't exist in traditional transportation apps or services.

💡 A Day in the Life

A typical day might involve collaborating with engineering teams to understand autonomous vehicle capabilities, designing interfaces for real-time system monitoring by operators, and creating user flows for riders booking on-demand transit. You'd balance strategic work on entirely new interaction paradigms with detailed UI design for both mobile apps and professional dashboards.

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🎯 Who Glydways Is Looking For

  • Has 10+ years designing digital products with demonstrated expertise in both UX strategy and polished UI execution for complex systems
  • Shows portfolio work that solves ambiguous problems with elegant, user-centered solutions, particularly for transportation, logistics, or multi-user platforms
  • Possesses deep knowledge of interaction design principles applied to novel interfaces, potentially including IoT, autonomous systems, or real-time operations
  • Can demonstrate experience designing for both consumer-facing applications (riders) and professional operator tools within the same ecosystem

📝 Tips for Applying to Glydways

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Tailor your portfolio to highlight transportation, mobility, or complex system design projects that show your process from ambiguous problem to refined solution

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Include case studies that demonstrate designing for both end-users (like riders) and internal operators/managers, as this role requires both perspectives

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Research Glydways' autonomous vehicle system and propose how you'd approach designing the rider booking experience or operator monitoring interface

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Show how your 10+ years of experience specifically prepared you for designing novel interfaces that don't have existing design patterns to follow

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Demonstrate understanding of sustainability and accessibility in your application materials, as these are core to Glydways' mission

✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter

['Explain how your experience designing complex digital products prepares you for the novel challenges of autonomous transit interfaces', "Demonstrate your understanding of Glydways' mission to create affordable, sustainable mobility and how design contributes to these goals", "Share specific ideas about how you'd approach designing for both riders (consumer experience) and operators (professional tools)", "Highlight any transportation, logistics, or multi-user platform design experience that's directly relevant to Glydways' system"]

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🔍 Research Before Applying

To stand out, make sure you've researched:

  • → Study Glydways' autonomous vehicle system architecture and dedicated roadway concept to understand the technical constraints
  • → Research current public transit pain points and how autonomous systems could address them differently
  • → Understand the dual user groups: urban commuters (riders) and transportation operations professionals (operators)
  • → Learn about net-negative GHG technology and how it applies to transportation systems

💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics

Based on this role, you may be asked about:

1 How would you design the onboarding experience for first-time riders of an autonomous transit system?
2 Describe your approach to creating operator interfaces that manage real-time autonomous vehicle operations and system monitoring
3 How do you balance user needs with technical constraints when designing for novel technologies like autonomous transportation?
4 What design principles would you apply to ensure accessibility and inclusivity in a public transit system?
5 How would you measure the success of design decisions in a transportation system that's completely new to users?
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⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid

  • Presenting only consumer app designs without showing experience with complex systems or professional tools
  • Focusing solely on visual design without demonstrating UX strategy and problem-solving for ambiguous challenges
  • Showing generic portfolio work without transportation, logistics, or novel interface experience relevant to autonomous systems

📅 Application Timeline

This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.

Typical hiring timeline:

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Application Review

1-2 weeks

2

Initial Screening

Phone call or written assessment

3

Interviews

1-2 rounds, usually virtual

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