Product Designer

About the Role

This position is for a product designer who thrives on ownership and moves with the mindset of a founder. Rather than waiting for fully formed briefs, you’ll identify opportunities, build prototypes quickly, influence product direction, and deliver experiences that create meaningful business impact.

This is far beyond a visual-polish role. You’ll contribute across product strategy, interaction design, design systems, prototyping, and hands-on execution. In many cases, you’ll take an idea from concept to prototype to live product within days instead of months.

The strongest candidates will combine strategic thinking, relentless execution, and a strong comfort with AI-powered workflows.

Why This Role Is Different

Design is evolving quickly, and AI has narrowed the gap between thinking and building. The best designers now do more than produce mockups; they explore directions, test interactions, create functional interfaces, and evaluate ideas independently.

We believe the designers who will thrive in the future are the ones who:

• Approach work with a product-leader mindset
• Prototype with engineering-level speed and rigor
• Use AI tools naturally and effectively
• Focus on outcomes instead of outputs
• Turn ambiguity into shipped products with minimal overhead

If that sounds energizing, this may be a strong fit.

What You’ll Do

• Take ownership of product areas from early insight through launch
• Lead zero-to-one explorations and transform blank-slate ideas into usable products
• Build prototypes quickly using code, AI tools, Figma, or any medium that communicates the concept best
• Partner closely with engineers and product managers to shape direction, not just final execution
• Think deeply about workflows, systems, and how features connect across the platform
• Incorporate AI tools into your day-to-day process to improve speed, creativity, and iteration cycles
• Raise the bar for product quality through strong judgment and craft
• Drive ideas into reality quickly rather than spending excessive time in planning

How We Work

• We prioritize fast learning and rapid iteration
• We prefer early prototyping over prolonged debate
• We use AI extensively across design, product thinking, research, and engineering
• We believe small, high-agency teams can outperform much larger ones
• We look for builders who use AI heavily to shorten execution cycles, test more ideas, and expand what one person can accomplish
• We value shipping and learning over strict role boundaries

What We’re Looking For

• 3 to 6 years of product design experience, preferably with startups or highly product-focused teams
• A proven history of taking products or features from concept to launch
• Strong initiative and a natural tendency to move work forward without waiting for prompts
• Clear product judgment and well-formed opinions about what should be built and why
• Strong visual and interaction design ability, supported by systems thinking
• Comfort working through ambiguity and solving problems in real time
• A preference for building and prototyping over endless ideation
• Excellent communication skills with engineers, PMs, and leadership
• Enthusiasm for AI-native workflows and the future of product creation

Bonus Experience

• Ability to prototype in code
• Experience with tools such as Cursor, v0, Lovable, Replit, Claude, or similar tools
• Background working on AI-native products or developer tools
• Prior experience as an early designer at a startup
• Strong interest in product velocity and faster iteration

What Success Looks Like

In this role, success means helping the team move faster without lowering quality, turning uncertain ideas into launched products, creating experiences that feel polished and inevitable, and building a culture where design is tightly linked to product strategy and execution.

This position offers an unusual level of ownership, autonomy, and leverage for someone who wants to shape outcomes directly.

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $150,000 to $175,000 in San Francisco. The final offer will depend on factors such as job level, relevant experience, skills, and other job-related expertise.

Equal Opportunity

The company is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other legally protected status.