Founding Product Designer

About this role

About the RoleJoin an early-stage B2B SaaS company as its first dedicated designer, shaping the product experience across recruiters, engineers, and candidates. You will work closely with product and engineering to establish a cohesive design language for a platform focused on evaluating and hiring technical talent. What You'll DoLearn how each user group works and identify where interface friction affects the product experience.

Build and maintain a consistent design system across the platform.

Use product analytics, including session recordings, to identify opportunities and inform design improvements.

Partner with engineering, product, and go-to-market teams across assessment flows and hiring dashboards.

Redesign the company website, owning information architecture, visual design, and front-end implementation.

What We're Looking ForTwo to four years of product design experience, with both UX and visual design skills in Figma and front-end development experience in TypeScript.

A portfolio showing polished, shipped product work that combines design and engineering.

Experience in an early-stage startup, including building and maintaining a product design system from the ground up.

Technical fluency and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers.

Experience with product analytics tools such as PostHog and cross-functional work with product, engineering, and go-to-market teams.

Comfort shipping in a fast-moving environment with short research cycles.

Experience designing software for hardware or technical products, such as CAD, simulation, or developer tools, is relevant.

Compensation & BenefitsBase salary: $140,000 to $185,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LocationHybrid role based in San Francisco, California.