Founding Designer

Founding Product Designer

About the Role

We’re looking for a Founding Product Designer to shape the visual and product experience of a next-generation consumer product from the ground up. This role goes far beyond creating screens - you’ll define how the product feels, moves, communicates, and connects with users across mobile, web, branding, and physical touchpoints.

As the first dedicated designer on the team, you’ll have a major influence on the product direction, design culture, and quality standards. You’ll work closely with engineering and founders to turn ambitious ideas into polished, production-ready experiences.

What You’ll Be Doing

Product & Experience Design

• Own the end-to-end design process for mobile applications and supporting web experiences
• Design intuitive user flows, onboarding experiences, and interaction patterns
• Create high-quality visual interfaces that balance usability with premium aesthetics
• Define motion behavior and micro-interactions that improve clarity and delight

Brand & Visual Identity

• Help establish and evolve the company’s visual language across product and marketing
• Contribute to branding assets including website visuals, launch materials, and packaging concepts
• Ensure consistency between digital experiences and physical product presentation

Systems & Collaboration

• Build and maintain a scalable design system for future product growth
• Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure implementation quality and design accuracy
• Participate in product discovery, lightweight user research, and usability validation
• Create clear documentation covering components, accessibility, usage rules, and content guidelines

What We’re Looking For

Required Experience

• 4+ years of experience in product design, visual design, or brand design
• Strong portfolio demonstrating shipped consumer-facing digital products
• Advanced Figma skills including auto-layout, variants, prototyping, and design systems
• Experience designing motion and interaction behaviors using tools such as After Effects, Rive, Principle, or Lottie
• Solid understanding of accessibility standards and design-to-development workflows

Bonus Points

• Experience designing for hardware-related products or physical experiences
• Packaging or unboxing design experience
• Content design or UX writing skills
• Data-informed product iteration and experimentation mindset

Ways of Working

• Weekly design reviews and close collaboration with engineering teams
• Figma as the primary source of truth for product specifications
• Structured handoff processes including reusable tokens and component documentation
• Design QA integrated into development workflows where applicable