Founding Product Designer

About the Role

As the first dedicated designer on an early-stage team, you will shape the user experience and design language of a technical hiring platform. Your work will help recruiters, engineering teams, and candidates navigate real-world skills assessment and hiring.

What You'll Do

• Learn how recruiters, engineers, and candidates use the platform, and identify where interface friction affects their experience.

• Build and maintain a cohesive design system across the product.

• Use product analytics, session recordings, and tools such as PostHog to identify opportunities and inform design improvements.

• Work closely with engineering, product, and go-to-market teams to deliver a consistent experience across assessment flows and dashboards.

• Own the website redesign from information architecture and visual design through front-end implementation.

• Move quickly from insight to shipped improvements in a fast-paced startup environment.

What We're Looking For

• Two to four years of product design experience, with front-end engineering skills.

• Experience as an early or founding designer at a startup, ideally on a technical product.

• Strong UX and visual design skills in Figma, alongside production TypeScript experience and a portfolio of shipped work.

• Experience creating and applying a design system across a product, and using product analytics tools such as PostHog.

• Technical fluency and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, product, and go-to-market teams.

• Experience designing software for hardware or other technical domains, such as CAD, simulation, or developer tools, is valuable.

Compensation & Benefits

Annual salary range: $140,000 to $185,000 USD. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

Hybrid in San Francisco, California, with in-office work three to four days per week.