Founding Product Designer (AI Agents Startup)

A startup building AI agents that people collaborate with inside everyday workplace tools is hiring its very first permanent designer. Close to the founders from day one, this person sets the standard for aesthetic judgment, craftsmanship and closeness to customers while the product approaches its public launch.

What you’ll own

• Define what it feels like to team up with AI agents, with confidence, visibility and user oversight at the center of a category that has no settled conventions
• Develop concepts with the founders, explain tradeoffs, absorb feedback, refine and release
• Build quick working prototypes in code using AI assistants and LLMs, partnering closely with engineering
• Take features from a fuzzy problem statement through to launch, spanning experience, interaction and visuals
• Keep the design system, its patterns and its written guidance current while the product expands

Who thrives here

• Two or more years in product design, with part of it spent inside an early-stage company
• A portfolio that shows strong visual taste, interaction craft and rigorous problem-solving on software
• Reasoning from the ground up on problems with little precedent, rather than copying familiar patterns
• Quick learner who has taken features from an initial idea to a finished interface
• Active use of AI coding tools; a plus is design-led or business software experience

On-site in the San Francisco Bay Area, five days a week. Visa transfers considered.