The role and why it matters
This is a founding design seat with direct access to product leadership, founders, and engineering. You will define how an AI-native product feels, how users direct and trust an agent, and what excellent generated work looks like across the customer journey.
What you'll do
• Own the core experience for requesting, shaping, reviewing, editing, and publishing agent-generated work.
• Invent new interaction models for an AI product rather than inheriting a mature design system.
• Set the visual and creative quality bar for both the interface and the agent's output.
• Partner closely with engineering to improve defaults, constraints, evaluations, brand adherence, and feedback loops.
• Shape product strategy with founders and product leadership, then prototype and refine ideas quickly.
• Move fluidly from product architecture and systems thinking to detailed interaction and visual decisions.
Requirements
What we're looking for
• At least 5 years of product design experience with a strong record of shipping products people use.
• A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional visual craft and novel zero-to-one work, not only assembled design-system screens.
• Experience in an early-stage or breakout startup, ideally in B2B SaaS, productivity software, or applied AI.
• Genuine enthusiasm for AI as a design medium and active use of modern AI tools in your work.
• High ownership, sound judgment, urgency, and comfort working directly with founders and engineers.
• Ability and willingness to work in the New York City office five days per week.
Bonus points
• Experience as a founding or sole designer at a venture-backed startup.
• A high-slope career path with rapid progression or recognition from a strong design fellowship.
• Experience designing creative tools, agent workflows, or AI-generated outputs.
Benefits
• $200K-$260K base salary.
• Competitive equity.
• Visa transfers may be considered for candidates who already hold valid U.S. work authorization. New visa sponsorship is not available.
• Full-time, on-site work in New York, NY. The team works together in the Flatiron area five days per week.
