Founding Product Designer

About Us:

Start date: Immediate

ResiQuant is revolutionizing how the world understands the built environment exposed to natural disasters. From earthquakes to wildfires and hurricanes the impact of climate change and urbanization is intensifyingand yet decision-makers are forced to rely on fragmented static and often inaccurate property data.

That changes with ResiQuant. We are building the worlds first agentic AI that fuses structural engineering with advanced computer vision to transform the worlds NatCat-exposed industries starting with the $200B property insurance industry. Our platform automates submission processing and enriches data enabling insurers to elevate underwriting precision and productivity.

Trusted by leading US property insurers ResiQuant serves as the definitive source of property intelligenceensuring that portfolios dynamically reflect evolving building codes ordinances and local construction practices providing actionable insights for informed decision-making.

Fueled by an unrelenting focus on protecting lives property and livelihoods ResiQuant is building the future of property risk intelligence at a time when it has never been more crucial.

About You:

Youre a designer obsessed with the detailsnot for the sake of polish alone but because you understand that every interaction every piece of friction every micro-moment adds up to trust. You believe that the right design can change how an entire industry thinks operates and makes decisions.

At ResiQuant thats the opportunity in front of you.

Were building the AI that will reshape how the world understands physical riskstarting with our growing base of top-tier insurance carriers. These are not casual users. Theyre executives underwriters and catastrophe modeling teams making high-stakes decisions about coverage pricing and exposure across trillions of dollars in assets. Theyre moving fast. They need clarity. And they will judge the quality of our insights by the quality of the interface.

As our first and founding product designer youll be responsible for how this all feelsfrom the information architecture that guides a new underwriter to the animations that bring a portfolio risk shift to life. Youll take technically complex data and render it simple elegant and actionable. Youll create AI-driven workflows that feel obvious and intuitivebecause youve sweat the edge cases asked the hard questions and rebuilt it until it was right.

This isnt a role for someone looking to maintain or refineits for someone who wants to define: the design system the product sensibility and the visual identity of a category-defining AI platform. Youll own the surface area of the companyfrom product to brand to weband build the design standards others will follow.

This is design not as decoration but as direction.

Key Responsibilities

Core Product & UX Design

• Own end-to-end user experience designfrom problem definition to shipped feature

• Map complex AI workflows for underwriting into intuitive progressive interactions

• Design product experiences across onboarding dashboards workflows reports notifications and more

• Rapidly prototype and test design hypotheses with internal teams and insurance end users

• Define interaction patterns state logic edge cases and UX documentation for engineering handoff

Visual Design & Brand Expression

• Build and maintain a scalable component-based design system in Figma

• Design data visualizations iconography and interface patterns for clarity speed and trust

• Shape the companys visual identity across product website presentations sales enablement and social

• Own and enforce visual consistency across all digital and physical brand touchpoints

• Create design standards guidelines and quality controls for future contributors

DesignOps & Collaboration

• Partner closely with engineering to define specs implementation flows and QA feedback loops

• Collaborate with founders and sales on roadmap planning and user story definition

• Establish internal design review feedback and documentation workflows

• Define future team processes as we scale: design sprints critiques research cadence etc.

• Guide (and eventually hire/mentor) junior designers contract contributors and creative partners

Requirements

Core Requirements

• 5 years of experience in UX/UI design preferably for data-rich enterprise or B2B SaaS products

• Portfolio that shows full-stack ownership: user flows wireframes polished UIs and live product screenshots

• Mastery of Figma and modern design systems practices

• Demonstrated success designing interfaces for technical or multi-role users (e.g. dashboards workflows analytics or internal tools)

• Strong UX writing instinctsclear labels human copy and helpful guidance throughout workflows

• Experience conducting or leveraging user research and customer feedback to drive design decisions

• Highly comfortable collaborating directly with engineers founders and sales

• Comfort designing and managing marketing websites (especially in Webflow or Framer)

• Based in or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area

Bonus Points

• Experience with data visualization design or financial modeling UIs

• Prior startup or 01 product experience

• Brand design iconography or motion/interaction craft

• Passion for AI risk resilience climate tech or insurance innovation

What Will Make You Stand Out

Design Thinking & Product Craft

• Obsessive care for interaction qualityhow things respond behave load and inform

• Proven ability to work through ambiguity and find signal fast

• Youve owned design systems that scaled across multiple product surfaces

• Youve worked with technical analytical user bases and designed for speed accuracy and trust

• You think like a PM when prioritizingand like an engineer when collaborating

Strategic & Mission-Driven

• You want to define a new categorynot inherit someone elses

• You care about systems thinking long-term scalability and design as leverage

• Youre energized by working on hard real-world problems with visible impact

• You care deeply about building tools that make people smarter and more resilient

• You believe design isnt just part of the productit is the product

Why Join ResiQuant

• You will define the brand the design system and the product experience that shape how trillions of dollars in property risk are assessed priced and managed across the insurance industry.

• You will help create an entirely new category of structural risk intelligencecombining deep science AI and design into tools that change how organizations build climate resilience.

• You will see your work live fast. The experiences you design will be used by underwriters executives and modeling teams at top-tier insurance carriers making real-world decisions every day.

• You will work on problems that matter. Every workflow you shape and every insight you clarify will directly support smarter decisions about what gets insured how portfolios are managed and where resilience is most urgently needed.

• You will join a world-class team. ResiQuant is founded by Stanford PhDs and built by engineers researchers and domain experts at the intersection of structural engineering machine learning and disaster risk.

• You will earn meaningful equity and play a foundational role in a venture-backed company with real customers fast momentum and enormous upside.

Day to Day

Your days at ResiQuant will move fastbecause the problem space demands it. Youll be embedded with engineers collaborating on rapid product iterations and shipping new interfaces at a weekly cadence. Youll work directly with founders and senior stakeholders shaping roadmap priorities and translating vision into user experience with clarity and precision.

Youll be hands-on in Figma refining flows evolving the design language and pushing forward on the details that elevate trustfrom information hierarchy to visual polish. Youll interact regularly with our insurance customers observing how your designs impact real decisions made by underwriters executives and catastrophe modelers.

Your scope wont stop at the product. Youll also own the design continuity across the companyfrom the marketing site to internal decks to our social presenceensuring every touchpoint reflects the quality credibility and clarity our users expect.

Youll see the impact of your work quickly track its performance and iterate with urgency. The environment is highly collaborative deeply technical and outcomes-driven. Youll be the steward of our design system and the advocate for our usershelping define not just what gets built but how it feels to use and how it reflects who we are.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation equity stake

• Founding-level ownership and input into product direction

• Comprehensive health benefits and 401(k)

• Significant tools and workspace budget (Figma Framer fonts whatever makes you fast)

• Team off-sites shared learning budgets and early-stage creative freedom