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Designer Startup Jobs in California (NOW HIRING)

Serval Inc

Product Designer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$175K - $300K/yr

Previous experience as a founding or early product designer at a startup. * Previous experience with B2B SaaS tools. What We Offer * Impact : Be a key player in shaping the success of our product and ...

SPLICE

Product Designer

San Francisco, CA · Remote

Company Description Our client is a stealth startup with significant funding from named VC's is seeking a Product Designer to be a founding engineer. Solid base salary and equity along with many ...

SPLICE

Product Designer

San Francisco, CA · On-site +1

Company Description Our client is a stealth startup with significant funding from named VC's is seeking a Product Designer to be a founding engineer. Solid base salary and equity along with many ...

TruckSmarter

Brand Designer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$150K - $180K/yr

The Role TruckSmarter is hiring a Brand Designer to help re-build and scale our brand as we roll ... A startup mindset-you're at home with ambiguity, eager to build, and not precious about pitching in ...

Dutch

Lead Product Designer

Oakland, CA · On-site

$150K - $160K/yr

... up of successful startup founders (Hims, PlushCare, Nasty Gal) with expertise in scaling ... THE ROLE: We're looking for a Lead Product Designer who will be responsible for creating intuitive ...

Dutch

Lead Product Designer

Oakland, CA

$150K - $160K/yr

... up of successful startup founders (Hims, PlushCare, Nasty Gal) with expertise in scaling ... THE ROLE: We're looking for a Lead Product Designer who will be responsible for creating intuitive ...

Dutch

Lead Product Designer

Oakland, CA

$150K - $160K/yr

... up of successful startup founders (Hims, PlushCare, Nasty Gal) with expertise in scaling ... THE ROLE: We're looking for a Lead Product Designer who will be responsible for creating intuitive ...

Spellbrush

Level Designer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$128K/yr

Collaborate closely with other game designers, artists, and engineers on the team. Help engineers ... Comfortable in a fast paced, high ownership startup environment. Shipped a game start to finish ...

Spellbrush

Level Designer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$128K/yr

Collaborate closely with other game designers, artists, and engineers on the team. Help engineers ... Comfortable in a fast paced, high ownership startup environment. Shipped a game start to finish ...

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Lux

Graphic Designer

South San Francisco, CA

Lux (Getluxapp.com) is a fast-growing mobile startup that is changing the way consumers shop for ... designs, focusing on highly intuitive, elegant, user-centric design solutions Design layout and ...

Bowers & Wilkins

Interaction Designer

Redwood City, CA · On-site

In May 2016, Silicon Valley startup Eva Automation, led by Gideon Yu, acquired Bowers & Wilkins ... Currently, we need an experienced Visual Designer with expertise in the art of design; a creative ...

Typeface

Staff Product Designer

Palo Alto, CA · On-site

$175K - $200K/yr

What You'll Do: We're looking for a Staff Product Designer who designs with AI the same way we ... Build something big - Be part of a fast-growing startup defining a new category: marketing ...

Aquent

Color Designer

Culver City, CA · On-site

$40 - $50/hr

What You'll Do Color Design & Execution Plan, develop, and execute seasonal color designs across a ... Background working at a startup or direct-to-consumer fashion brand (Skims, Revolve, Alo, and ...

Bowers & Wilkins

Interaction Designer

Redwood City, CA · On-site

In May 2016, Silicon Valley startup Eva Automation, led by Gideon Yu, acquired Bowers & Wilkins ... Currently, we need an experienced Visual Designer with expertise in the art of design; a creative ...

Hireready

Growth Designer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

We're super excited to be on the lookout for our first designer to help us grow our company. Design ... Startup experience, a plus Growth/Marketing experience, a plus Fun-loving 0-2 years of work ...

Hireready

Growth Designer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

We're super excited to be on the lookout for our first designer to help us grow our company. Design ... Startup experience, a plus * Growth/Marketing experience, a plus * Fun-loving * 0-2 years of work ...

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Product Designer

Serval Inc

San Francisco, CA • On-site

$175K - $300K/yr

Full-time

Posted 29 days ago

Job description

Who We Are
Serval is an AI-native automation platform transforming how enterprises operate. We build intelligent agents that understand real-world workflows and execute them end-to-end - replacing manual processes and rigid legacy systems with adaptive, learning software. Founded in early 2024, Serval is already trusted by companies like Fox, Notion, Perplexity, Vercel, and Brex to automate high-volume, high-friction operational work across their organizations.
At the core of Serval is an agentic AI platform that turns natural language into production-grade workflows. Our agents don't just respond to requests - they reason, take action across systems, and continuously improve with usage. What began with operational use cases has quickly evolved into a horizontal AI automation layer used across IT, HR, Finance, Security, Legal, and Engineering.
Our mission is to eliminate repetitive, manual work across the enterprise and give teams leverage through intelligent automation. Long term, we're building the universal AI operations layer - a system of agents that sits across business functions and runs the workflows that keep modern companies moving.
We're backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Meritech, First Round, General Catalyst, Elad Gil, and others.
Role Overview
As Product Designer, you'll be working closely with the founding team to build the Serval platform from the ground up. Our vision is centered around usability, and you'll be challenged to create intuitive and beautiful interactions that unlock powerful automation capabilities.
This role is based in San Francisco, California, and requires in-person presence.
What You'll Do
  • Deeply understand a complex problem space and forge simple, elegant design solutions.
  • Generate your own ideas, and drive collaborative processes to elicit ideas from your teammates.
  • Move fast to explore those ideas via mockups, interactive prototypes, and usability testing with customers.
  • Work with engineering to understand the technical constraints of a project, and make pragmatic tradeoffs on your designs.
  • Craft your designs through every stage of the process: From exploratory concept through pixel-perfect, shipped UI.
  • Build the foundations of a flexible and scalable design system.
  • Support development of early brand content, including logo and landing page.

What You'll Need
  • You have 5+ years experience as an in-house product designer, preferably designing full applications end-to-end.
  • You have experience designing and prototyping in Figma.
  • You like thinking about complex problems, and enjoy exploring the ambiguity inherent to defining a new product category.
  • You care about the details of your work, and love crafting pixel-perfect UI.
  • You like collaborating with other design-minded teammates in product and engineering.
  • You like shipping, and are willing to make hard tradeoffs in order to get features in the hands of customers.
  • You like impact, seeing how your work makes peoples' lives better and moves business metrics.
  • You're a self-starter, who can proactively identify opportunities for impact even when they're not assigned to you.
  • You enjoy collaboration and feedback, can give constructive and respectful critiques of others' work, and can explain the reasoning behind your design decisions and opinions.
  • You're comfortable in a high-growth startup, can balance many simultaneous projects, and thrive in fast-paced environments.

Nice to Have
  • Previous experience as a founding or early product designer at a startup.
  • Previous experience with B2B SaaS tools.

What We Offer
  • Impact: Be a key player in shaping the success of our product and company.
  • Growth: Build a fundamentally new AI product offering with the support of our experienced team and investors. Grow rapidly with the company.
  • Culture: Join a culture that values innovation, ownership, accountability, and fun.

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