Founding Product Designer

About this role

About the RoleJoin an early-stage B2B SaaS team as its first dedicated product designer, shaping the design language and user experience of a platform for technical hiring. You will work across experiences for recruiters, engineers, and candidates, helping make skills assessment and hiring workflows clear and effective. What You'll DoExplore the product across its user groups and identify where interface friction affects the experience.

Establish and maintain a cohesive design system across the platform.

Use product analytics, session recordings, and tools such as PostHog to identify opportunities and guide design improvements.

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

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

What We're Looking ForTwo to four years of product design experience, with strong skills in Figma and production TypeScript.

Experience as an early design hire at a startup, with technical fluency and the ability to collaborate closely with engineers.

A portfolio demonstrating polished, shipped product work that combines UX and visual design with front-end implementation.

Experience building and maintaining a design system, using product analytics tools such as PostHog, and working across engineering, product, and go-to-market teams.

Experience with software for hardware or technical domains, such as CAD, simulation, or developer tools, is valuable.

Comfort working at an early-stage pace, making decisions and shipping improvements without lengthy research cycles.

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