Founding Product & Brand Design
Stealth Startup
As our founding designer, you'll set the design direction for the company and own it across three connected surfaces: our product dashboard, our brand, and our website. Design the product dashboard building ontop of our existing design system. Create diagrams and explainers that show technical concepts in an understandable and intuitive manner.Build and maintain a design system of tokens, components, variants, and guidelines that keeps the dashboard, website, and brand consistent.Create prototypes that communicate behavior, navigation, feedback, and transitions, not just static screens.Talk with users and design partners, identify usability problems, and iterate based on what you learn.Hand off organized source files, assets, and interaction specs, and review the built result with engineers.Propose and evaluate experiments that improve signups, onboarding, and activation.What we're looking for: Excellent visual craft, including typography, spacing, hierarchy, composition, color, and attention to detail.Demonstrated experience designing dense application or dashboard interfaces, with clear UX reasoning behind your decisions.Experience creating or extending a brand identity across multiple surfaces.Experience designing marketing websites, ideally for a technical audience, with an understanding of conversion-focused page structure.An understanding of how developers evaluate tools, and the ability to explain technical concepts through page structure, visuals, headlines, and concise interface copy.Experience building design systems.A habit of designing for responsiveness and accessibility, including contrast, keyboard interaction, focus states, and reduced-motion preferences.Comfort taking an ambiguous brief from exploration to polished deliverable, setting priorities, and communicating tradeoffs.Nice to have: Production code is not expected.3D, procedural graphics, or an interest in real-time web graphics such as WebGPU and shaders.Experience at a developer-tool, infrastructure, or technical SaaS company.Evidence of improving a meaningful product outcome, such as signups or onboarding completion.If you're excited about this role but don't match every point, we'd still like to hear from you.