Product Designer

What You'll Work On

• Own product areas end-to-end, from initial insight to shipped experience
• Lead greenfield explorations and turn blank-canvas ideas into real products
• Prototype aggressively, in code, AI tools, Figma, or whatever gets the idea across fastest
• Work directly with engineers and PMs to shape product direction, not just execution
• Think deeply about systems, workflows, and how features compound across the platform
• Use AI tools as part of your daily workflow to increase speed, creativity, and iteration velocity
• Raise the quality bar across the company through strong product judgment and craft
• Push ideas into reality quickly instead of over-optimizing in planning phases

How We Work

• Optimize for speed of learning and iteration
• Prototype early instead of debating endlessly
• Use AI heavily across design, product thinking, research, and engineering
• Small, high-agency teams outperform much larger organizations
• Believe the best builders in the AI era are token maxxers who use AI relentlessly to compress execution cycles
• Care more about shipping and learning than rigid role boundaries

What We're Looking For

• 3–6 years of product design experience, ideally at startups or highly product-driven teams
• Strong track record of owning products or features from concept through launch
• High agency — naturally move things forward without waiting for direction
• Strong product instincts and clear opinions about what should exist and why
• Excellent visual and interaction design skills, grounded in systems thinking
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and figuring things out in real time
• Bias toward building and prototyping over endless ideation
• Strong communication with engineers, PMs, and leadership
• Excitement about AI-native workflows and the future of product creation

Bonus Points

• Prototype in code
• Experience with tools like Cursor, v0, Lovable, Replit, Claude, or similar
• Worked on AI-native products or developer-facing tools
• Early designer at a startup
• Care deeply about product velocity and iteration speed

What Success Looks Like

• Move faster without sacrificing quality
• Turn ambiguous ideas into shipped products
• Create experiences that feel thoughtful, fast, and inevitable
• Build a culture where design is deeply tied to product thinking and execution

Compensation

• $150,000 - $175,000 in San Francisco