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Founding Product Designer

United StatesRemote2+ YOE
Summary

Founding Product Designer owning end-to-end UX and visual design for an AI-driven consumer social platform. Must have strong product taste, UX judgment, and Mandarin Chinese proficiency.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end design across key product surfaces on mobile and web
  • Drive UX for major product flows and make clear product experience decisions
  • Improve the overall quality, clarity, and polish of the product
  • Define and evolve product DNA, visual language, interaction patterns, and design systems
  • Work closely with founders, product, and engineering to shape and ship new experiences
  • Use modern AI and design tools to explore, prototype, and iterate quickly

Requirements

  • 2+ years of product design experience, ideally in consumer or mobile-first products
  • Strong UX judgment and product sense
  • Strong visual design skills and high taste level
  • Ability to design from scratch and bring structure to ambiguous problems
  • Strong systems thinking and experience building reusable patterns or design systems
  • High ownership and comfort working in a fast-moving startup
  • Comfortable working closely with engineers
  • Highly AI-native and comfortable using modern tools in daily workflow
  • Mandarin Chinese is required

Nice to Have

  • Experience with consumer social, creator, gaming, or AI products
  • Frontend or engineering background
  • Ability to prototype in code or implement light frontend work
  • Experience as an early or founding designer at a startup

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary + meaningful equity
  • Full health insurance
Skills
Product DesignUX DesignVisual DesignDesign SystemsPrototypingAI ToolsMobile DesignWeb DesignSystems ThinkingFigma