Founding Product Designer
Founding Product Designer responsible for end-to-end product design, prototyping, design-system evolution, and polished experiences for a complex AI-native product. The role requires strong product design craft, comfort with ambiguity, and close collaboration with engineering and brand.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Drive design across the full Gumloop product from concept through delivery.
- Rapidly prototype new concepts and features to validate ideas before implementation.
- Identify opportunities to redesign or refine key screens, flows, and smaller usability issues.
- Evolve the product’s design language and product vision.
- Contribute to the core design system.
- Collaborate directly with engineering and brand to ship polished, intuitive experiences.
Requirements
- Experience shipping polished products and taking work from 80% to 100%.
- Experience prototyping in Figma and AI-assisted design tools.
- Ability to distill ambiguous problems and feedback into clear, focused solutions.
- Humility and adaptability when receiving feedback and iterating.
- Exceptional visual taste and enthusiasm for building complex AI-native products.
Nice-to-haves
- Motion and interaction design experience.
- Experience designing developer tools or products for technical audiences.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary of $175,000–$275,000.
- Meaningful equity.
- Generous paid time off: 24 days for San Francisco employees and 20 days globally.
- $350/month wellness benefit.
- 15 days of temporary remote-work flexibility per year.
- 401(k) match up to 6%.
Skills
Figma, Ai Design Tools, Paper, Claude, Cursor, Design Systems, Prototyping, Motion Design, Interaction Design, Developer Tools
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