Founding Product Designer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join an early-stage B2B software team as its first dedicated product designer, reporting to a company co-founder. You will shape the design language and user experience of a technical hiring platform serving recruiters, engineers, and candidates. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Learn how each user group works and identify where interface friction affects the experience. - Build and maintain a consistent design system across the platform. - Use product analytics, including session recordings, to identify opportunities and guide design improvements. - Work closely with engineering, product, and go-to-market teams across assessment flows and hiring dashboards. - Redesign the company website, owning its information architecture, visual design, and front-end implementation. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Two to four years of product design experience, with front-end engineering skills in TypeScript and strong Figma proficiency. - Experience at an early-stage startup, ideally as an early or founding technical designer. - A portfolio demonstrating polished, shipped product work and the ability to combine UX and visual design with production code. - Experience creating and maintaining a cohesive design system across a product. - Familiarity with product analytics tools such as PostHog and cross-functional work with engineering, product, and go-to-market teams. - Experience designing non-consumer software, ideally for hardware or technical domains such as CAD, simulation, or developer tools. - Comfort working at startup pace, using short research cycles and shipping practical improvements quickly. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $140,000 to $185,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION Hybrid, based in San Francisco, California. The role works in the office three to four days per week.