Founding Product Designer

Founding Product Designer

Location: San Francisco / Bay Area

Schedule: Full-time Hybrid

Department: Product

Salary: $150K $200K 0.2% 0.4%

About Us:

We re building something ambitious: a new kind of company memory designed to help fast-growing teams scale without losing clarity alignment or culture. Our product acts as an AI-powered teammate that understands organizational context goals and workflows bringing visibility and cohesion to how modern companies operate.

Backed by top-tier investors and built alongside leaders from some of the most respected technology companies we re tackling a fundamental challenge: helping companies grow without losing what makes them effective in the first place.

About the Role:

This is a foundational design role with significant ownership and influence. As the Founding Product Designer you will work closely with the CEO and product leadership to shape the vision define the user experience and bring a complex AI-driven product to life.

You ll operate across the full design lifecycle from early discovery and concept development to high-fidelity execution and iteration while helping establish design standards systems and culture. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity enjoys solving deeply complex problems and wants to have a direct impact on product direction and company trajectory.

What You ll Do:

• Partner directly with the CEO on product strategy and direction
• Translate ambiguous ideas into clear user flows product requirements and elegant design solutions
• Design across multiple surfaces including desktop apps web dashboards notifications and AI-driven interfaces
• Rapidly prototype concepts using tools like Figma to test and validate ideas with users
• Create high-quality visuals interaction patterns and polished user experiences
• Collaborate closely with engineering to ensure designs are scalable performant and feasible
• Build and maintain reusable components patterns and documentation as the product evolves
• Define and track metrics to evaluate design effectiveness and inform decisions
• Conduct lightweight user research usability testing and continuous feedback loops
• Contribute to product storytelling and communicate design rationale clearly to stakeholders
• Help shape design culture through critiques mentorship and best practice sharing

What We re Looking For:

• 3 years of experience designing UX and UI for software products of comparable complexity
• Strong visual design skills with a keen eye for typography layout and modern interface design
• Proficiency in interaction design and prototyping tools such as Figma
• Proven ability to independently drive the design process from discovery to launch
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to balance user needs technical constraints and business goals
• Clear structured thinking and the ability to communicate design decisions effectively
• Experience using data and metrics to inform and evaluate design outcomes

Why You Should Join:

• Foundational impact: Be one of the first design hires and shape not just the product but how design operates within the company
• Direct access to leadership: Work closely with the CEO and have a real voice in strategic decisions
• High ownership low bureaucracy: Move fast experiment freely and see your ideas shipped quickly
• Complex meaningful problems: Tackle challenges at the intersection of AI organizational behaviour and product design
• Career-defining opportunity: Build a portfolio of work that reflects true 0 1 product thinking and execution
• Strong backing and network: Collaborate with experienced operators and investors deeply connected in the tech ecosystem
• Design culture from day one: Help define standards systems and best practices as the team grows

What You ll Do:

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Free meals on in-office days
• Uber Eats credits
• Comprehensive health insurance (medical dental vision)
• Fitness and wellness memberships
• Transportation stipend
• Flexible time off