Founding Product Designer

About the Role

As the founding product designer at an early-stage AI company, you will work closely with executive and product partners to shape product strategy and build end-to-end experiences. You will help establish the design practice and systems as the product grows across desktop applications, web dashboards, and AI-driven interfaces.

What You'll Do

• Partner with product and executive stakeholders to define strategy and translate it into clear product direction.

• Turn ambiguous concepts into requirements, user flows, interaction models, and interface designs.

• Design experiences across desktop applications, web dashboards, notifications, and AI outputs.

• Prototype rapidly in Figma and interactive tools, then validate concepts with users.

• Collaborate with engineers to ensure designs are feasible, performant, and scalable.

• Build reusable components, design patterns, and documentation as the product evolves.

• Define metrics and collect data to evaluate design effectiveness.

• Conduct lightweight user research, usability testing, and feedback sessions with operators.

• Communicate product opportunities and contribute to design critiques, mentorship, and knowledge sharing.

What We're Looking For

• At least 3 years of experience designing UX and UI for software products of similar scale and complexity.

• Strong visual and interaction design skills, with fluency in Figma and prototyping tools.

• Experience independently leading design from discovery through launch while balancing user needs, technical constraints, and business goals.

• Structured communication skills and experience grounding decisions in user research and rationale.

• Experience using metrics and data to assess design effectiveness, and creating reusable design systems and documentation.

• Background designing information tools, operational workflows, or systems, with familiarity in AI products, agentic experiences, or emerging technology patterns.

Compensation & Benefits

Annual base salary: $150,000 to $170,000.

Location

Hybrid, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.