2-5 years of experience in design or frontend engineering
Strong portfolio showcasing user-centered design and functionality
Proficient in SwiftUI or React, with the ability to learn quickly
Experience with AI tools for design and development
Ability to articulate design decisions and engage in constructive critiques
Passion for user feedback and iterative design
Interest in animal care, with a preference for pet owners
Responsibilities
Own the user experience for the iOS app, driving continuous evolution and innovation
Shape the website to create a compelling first impression for pet parents
Collaborate with creative and go-to-market teams to develop educational digital assets
Conduct user interviews and integrate feedback into design iterations
Prototype and implement features that enhance veterinary care for pets
Ensure all design elements maintain high standards of typography, spacing, and motion
Manage the end-to-end development cycle of user interfaces
Benefits
Opportunity to work closely with founders and a founding engineer
Impactful role that directly influences pet healthcare
Collaborative environment with a focus on user-centered design
Chance to innovate in a new category of healthcare delivery
Engagement in a mission-driven company dedicated to improving pet lives
Full Job Description
You'd be the owner of the interface that will change millions of pet lives, working alongside our founding engineer and directly with the founders.
What you'll own
You're in charge of any interface pet parents touch - e2e throughout the development cycle. You'll have a technical backstop in our founding engineer and work closely with Product, but you'll truly own the UX.
Our iOS app: you'll run continuous evolution and reinvention of the centerpiece that extends pet lives. You take user interviews and longevity expert input, ship prototypes, and push them as final features that deliver the kindest vet care pet parents have seen.
Our website: you'll be the one to shape our first impression, and make sure pet parents have everything they need to understand a new category of healthcare delivery.
Other design assets: work with our creative and GTM team to supplement our education and outreach activities with digital offerings that help pet parents let their pets live healthier lives.
You're a fit if 70% Design, 30% Code. We're looking for a designer who vibe-codes, or a frontend engineer who obsesses about design as much as about functionality.
You have a portfolio of things you designed and built that real people use.
You sweat typography, spacing, hierarchy and motion, and the unglamorous states too: loading, empty, error.
You can explain why a screen works, and hold your ground in a critique.
You've shipped in SwiftUI or React, and pick up the other fast.
You build with AI tools daily, and you can tell when their output is wrong.
You talk to users and change things because of what they said.
You like animals. You don't need a dog, but it helps.
Roughly 2-5 years of experience. Bonus: health or data-heavy consumer products, motion, brand work, having been the first designer somewhere.
Probably not a fit if
You need a finished Figma file before you start, or you hand one off and walk away.
Your best work is APIs and data pipelines. Our founding engineer owns that.
You'd rather polish one screen for a month than ship and iterate.
