Founding Designer

Daydream

$120K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in brand and product design
  • Proficiency in designing intuitive user interfaces for productivity tools
  • Strong understanding of UX principles and design crafts
  • Experience collaborating with domain experts and end-users
  • Ability to shape and influence company design culture

Responsibilities

  • Design the DayDream product focusing on aesthetics and usability
  • Create brand visuals for various platforms including team merchandise and ads
  • Establish high standards for design and user experience across the company
  • Iterate on design based on feedback from users and domain experts
  • Develop the foundational design culture within the organization

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape a product from the ground up
  • Collaborate closely with experienced co-founders and industry experts
  • Engage with a diverse range of design challenges
  • Be part of a startup environment with growth potential
  • Contribute to meaningful solutions that improve user productivity
Full Job Description
The Role

We are looking for a founding brand & product designer

Responsibilities include:
  • You will be responsible for designing the DayDream product - a powerful productivity tool by experienced domain experts while being beautiful and intuitive.
  • You will be responsible for the brand design of DayDream. This includes team merch, conference swag, FB ads, etc.
  • Set the bar for design craft and UX in all parts of the company - not just the product!
  • Own and iterate on design alongside domain experts and customers who are using your tool everyday and rely on it to keep their business running
  • Help shape design culture from the ground up.


Here are some problems we are currently thinking about (and you could help solve!)
  1. How do we make DayDream as dense and productive as possible while making the product intuitive to use, especially for non-technology-native users?
  2. As LLMs (and thus our automations) get better and better, how do we transition the UI from a copilot experience to an agentic experience?
  3. We have an extraordinary amount of many-to-many relationships between data models. How do we represent this well in the UI?


Team
  • Anton Lin, Co-Founder, CTO:
    • Formerly co-founded Scout, scaled to $1M ARR before an exit to StockX
    • Built and grew several SaaS businesses to 7 figures in revenue
    • UC Berkeley dropout (3 weeks!)
  • Shreyas Parab, Co-Founder, CEO:
    • Formerly first employee at YC W23 startup, Special projects for billionaire Dan Gilbert
    • Started and grew D2C brand to $75k in annual sales, started/sold ed-tech company, Senior Class President at Stanford, student representative on the Board of Trustees
    • Stanford Biomedical Computation
  • Our (currently)

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