# Founding Designer

**Company:** [Phoebe Work](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/phoebe-work)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Product Design
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Figma, Product Design, UX Design, Prototyping, AI Tools, Cursor, User Research, Design Systems
**Posted:** 2025-12-14

> Owns user experience for core operations product and mobile talent agent, designing intuitive software through fast iterations, customer feedback, and UX audits. Requires 2+ years product design experience, strong aesthetic instincts, and Figma proficiency.

## Job Description

## What you'll do
- Own the user experience across our core operations product and upcoming mobile talent agent
- Create software that feels great to use
- Work in fast, iterative cycles
- Talk to customers, run UX audits, and turn feedback into shipped improvements
- Translate our core principles into product: Cycle time is key. You ship quickly and iterate. Quality matters. Your work stands on its own

## Who you are
- You have 2+ years of experience in product design
- You've designed production software that real people use
- You have strong aesthetic instincts and can articulate what makes design good or bad
- You notice UX everywhere - good and bad - in your daily life
- You have a portfolio you're proud of

## The tools
- Figma for design
- Cursor or similar AI tooling for prototyping

## What we offer
- High-leverage work defining the design language of a fast-growing company
- Competitive salary with above-market equity
- Small team where your work ships to customers immediately
- In-person in NYC (Chinatown / LES)
- Multiple second-time founders to learn from

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