UX/UI Designer

About Us

Scotch is building the next-generation operating system for beverage alcohol retailers — combining POS payments back office and e-commerce into a platform purpose-built for liquor stores.

We’re modernizing one of the oldest industries in the world: the $1.6T beverage alcohol market. Our platform helps retailers run more efficiently through streamlined payments inventory management reporting and day-to-day operations.

Our founders came from Skupos (acquired 2023) and Drizly (acquired by Uber). We've raised $28M from VMG Partners First Round Lerer Hippeau Watchfire and Toba Capital with angels including the founder of Drizly and early Toast executives. In 2026 we closed a $20M Series A. Forbes has recognized Scotch as a leader in liquor retail tech.

Position Overview

We’re looking for a UX/UI Designer who can own design end-to-end—from early research and problem framing through to shipped polished experiences. You’ll be the thought partner to our product managers: someone who pushes back on over-specified solutions proactively surfaces problems we didn’t think to ask about and brings both user insight and design craft to every decision.

You’ll work closely with PMs and engineers across a fast-moving R&D team. If you’re energized by ambiguity motivated by real user impact and excited about AI’s role in shaping both the products you design and your own workflow—this is a great fit.

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead discovery and research—user interviews contextual inquiry usability testing—and translate what you learn into clear design decisions that inform product strategy.
• Define and own the design process from problem framing to shipped features: You’ll need to know when to apply more rigor vs when to rely on great product intuition to move faster user. 
• Partner closely with PMs to define requirements and challenge assumptions. Be the voice that asks “Did we solve the right problem?” before we ask “Did we build it right?”
• Collaborate with engineers to bring designs to life faithfully. Engage with our R&D culture—stay curious about frontend capabilities and be a driver of the evolving AI-assisted design/build loop.
• Own and evolve our design system: establish patterns maintain consistency and raise the quality bar across the product.
• Participate in the full product lifecycle including contributing to roadmap conversations and post-launch iteration.
• Bring a point of view—not just execution. We want a designer who challenges improves and helps shape where the product goes next.

Qualifications & Skills

• 4+ years of product/UX design experience in a startup or fast-moving environment.
• Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end work—research problem framing and shipped product.
• Strong visual and interaction design skills. You sweat the details that matter for users not just aesthetics—and you know when to push and when to ship.
• You are an expert researcher. You design discovery plans synthesize findings fast and turn ambiguous problems into clear design direction.
• You’ve partnered closely with PMs and pushed back constructively. You help define the problem not just solve it.
• You think in systems not screens. You care about patterns consistency and how designs scale over time.
• Comfortable working alongside engineers in a fast-moving R&D environment—you understand implementation constraints and are comfortable building the plane while flying.
• Proficient with Figma Claude and able to prototype quickly to test assumptions and communicate behavior.

Nice to Haves

• Experience designing complex B2B or operational workflows (retail logistics or similar).
• Familiarity with design systems—building them maintaining them and getting others to use them.
• You actively use AI tools in your own workflow and are excited to design AI-assisted experiences that feel human and intentional.
• Experience as a sole or lead designer.
• Some exposure to frontend development or a strong mental model of how the design-to-build handoff works.

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation: The anticipated base salary range for this position is $150000–$160000. Individual offers are based on a variety of factors including experience skills qualifications and internal equity. 
• Competitive equity package
• Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage
• Unlimited flexible PTO

Why Scotch?

• A real product with real users—your design decisions affect store managers navigating live operational complexity every day.
• True design ownership: you’ll shape the product not just execute on specs.
• A tight-knit engineering and product team that takes design seriously

What We Do

From neighborhood stores to destination warehouses liquor retailers of all sizes have been held back by manual tasks slow systems and limited business intelligence. So we decided to build something better — smarter software that saves time and improves margins so independent retailers could focus on their customers not manually managing inventory.

Why Work With Us

Company building is a team sport and we aim to to win the World Championships. We’re looking for heat-seeking missiles that aspire to be the absolute best in their field to constantly raise the bar amongst their peers and to win. We’re a low-ego high-outcome focused crew with a strict no asshole policy.