Founding Designer

Emergence Capital Partners

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

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of product design experience with a strong portfolio
  • Experience with complex workflows and enterprise software
  • Proficiency in Figma and other design tools
  • Solid grasp of interaction design principles
  • Experience with user research and actionable insights
  • Exceptional visual design skills
  • Proven track record in shipping features and owning design systems
  • Strong communication abilities for collaboration

Responsibilities

  • Own product design from user research to visual execution
  • Define novel interaction patterns for AI-driven workflows
  • Create wireframes and prototypes that convey vision
  • Conduct user research, usability testing, and data analysis
  • Develop and uphold design systems for product consistency
  • Collaborate with engineers during implementation to maintain design quality
  • Contribute to product vision and strategy discussions

Benefits

  • Opportunity for high ownership in product design
  • Collaboration directly with founders and cross-functional teams
  • Engagement with cutting-edge AI technologies
  • Ability to shape user experience in a growing startup environment
  • Flexible work culture that encourages innovation
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're designing the interfaces for a new generation of AI products. You'll shape how users interact with complex systems - making powerful technology feel simple, intuitive, and trustworthy.

Designing for AI presents unique challenges: How do you help users understand what the AI is doing? How do you build trust when outputs are probabilistic? How do you create workflows that leverage AI capabilities without overwhelming users? You'll be solving these problems daily, defining interaction patterns that don't exist yet.

This is a high-ownership role. You'll be the design voice in the room, working directly with founders, engineers, and customers to define what we build. You should be comfortable with ambiguity, excited by constraints, and motivated by shipping products that real people use.

What You'll Do
  • Own product design end-to-end: user research, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design
  • Define interaction patterns for AI-native workflows, surfacing AI capabilities, handling uncertainty, and building user trust
  • Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that communicate product vision clearly
  • Conduct user research - interviews, usability testing, data analysis and translate insights into product decisions
  • Build and maintain design systems that enable consistent, high-quality UI across the product
  • Work closely with engineers through implementation, ensuring design quality in the final product
  • Define a clear UX vision and strategy for how enterprise users interact with AI-powered workflows, balancing innovation with usability
  • Contribute to product strategy and roadmap discussions as a key voice in what we build


Qualifications
  • 4+ years of product design experience, with a portfolio demonstrating taste and end-to-end product design work
  • Experience designing complex workflows, data-heavy applications, or enterprise software
  • Strong proficiency in Figma and other AI tools, including rapid prototyping/wireframing and design systems
  • Solid understanding of interaction design principles and ability to create intuitive user experiences
  • Experience conducting user research and translating findings into actionable design decisions
  • Excellent visual design skills with attention to typography, color, spacing, and hierarchy
  • Have owned design systems and shipped features, not just concepts
  • Strong communication skills, ability to articulate design rationale and collaborate effectively with engineers and PMs
  • Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration in a fast-moving startup environment


Nice to Have
  • Experience designing AI-powered products or features
  • Background in designing B2B or enterprise applications
  • Experience at an early-stage startup or designing 01 products that will serve massive deployments to large enterprises
  • Familiarity with front-end development (HTML, CSS, React) to facilitate engineer collaboration
  • Domain expertise in financial services, legal, healthcare, or other enterprise verticals
  • Experience building and scaling design systems from scratch and have scaled it across multiple surfaces (app, web, and brand)

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