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Rockstar

Founding Designer

San Francisco, CA

The Role As the Founding Product Designer, this individual will own design for the company's embedded accounting products and help evolve the visual brand as the company scales. They will set design ...

Rockstar

Founding Designer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

The Role As the Founding Product Designer, this individual will own design for the company's embedded accounting products and help evolve the visual brand as the company scales. They will set design ...

The Misch Group

Founding Product Engineer

Los Angeles, CA · On-site

$150K - $200K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • PTO

The successful candidate will own the full-stack product lifecycle : scoping, designing, shipping, and iterating in the field. This role requires travel with the founding team to factory floors in ...

Hatch IT

Founding Product Engineer

New York, NY

$180K - $220K/yr

About The Role We're hiring a founding product engineer to own the user-facing experience of their ... You'll work closely with the CTO, founders, designers, and clinical stakeholders to turn complex ...

Hatch IT

Founding Product Engineer

New York, NY

$180K - $220K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

  • PTO

About The Role We're hiring a founding product engineer to own the user-facing experience of their ... You'll work closely with the CTO, founders, designers, and clinical stakeholders to turn complex ...

Kinstead

Founding Product Engineer

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$180 - $220/hr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Founding Product Engineer Location: New York City (Hybrid, 3 days in office per week) Reports to ... You'll work closely with the CTO, founders, designers, and clinical stakeholders to turn complex ...

Hatch IT

Founding Product Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$180K - $220K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

  • PTO

About The Role We're hiring a founding product engineer to own the user-facing experience of their ... You'll work closely with the CTO, founders, designers, and clinical stakeholders to turn complex ...

hatch IT

Founding Product Engineer

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$180K - $220K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

  • PTO

About The Role We're hiring a founding product engineer to own the user-facing experience of their ... You'll work closely with the CTO, founders, designers, and clinical stakeholders to turn complex ...

Kinstead, Inc

Founding Product Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$180K - $220K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Founding Product Engineer Location: New York City (Hybrid, 3 days in office per week) Reports to ... You'll work closely with the CTO, founders, designers, and clinical stakeholders to turn complex ...

GPTZero

Sr. Product Designer

New York, NY · On-site

$140K - $230K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • PTO

We're seeking a talented Senior Product Designer who's passionate about AI transparency ... Competitive equity for a founding team member * We are a cash-flow positive/profitable company ...

The Misch Group

Founding Product Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site +1

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • PTO

The successful candidate will own the full-stack product lifecycle : scoping, designing, shipping, and iterating in the field. This role requires travel with the founding team to factory floors in ...

The Misch Group

Founding Product Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site +1

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • PTO

The successful candidate will own the full-stack product lifecycle : scoping, designing, shipping, and iterating in the field. This role requires travel with the founding team to factory floors in ...

Assort Health

Senior Product Designer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$175K - $200K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

  • PTO

This role will report to the Founding Product Designer. What you'll do: * Take end-to-end ownership of product design: shaping roadmap decisions, defining core experiences, and shipping at speed ...

Corridor Security Inc

Founding Designer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$180K - $220K/yr

The Role As Founding Product Designer, you'll own how Corridor's product works and feels. You'll go deep with the developers and security teams who use us, turn what you learn into product decisions ...

Clera

Founding Product Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$190K - $210K/yr

About the Role A well-funded, early-stage fintech startup is looking for a Founding Product ... Work closely with the founder, lead engineer, and designer to architect and implement solutions ...

Clera

Founding Product Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$200K - $250K/yr

We're looking for a Founding Product Engineer to own entire product modules end-to-end, work ... Experience designing and building REST or GraphQL APIs with clear contracts and versioning. * High ...

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A Freelance Founding Product Designer is an independent professional who collaborates with early-stage startups or new ventures to design the initial version of their product. This role combines product vision, user experience, and interface design to help shape the product’s direction from the ground up. As a freelancer, they typically work on a contract basis rather than as a full-time employee and often contribute strategic input, user research, prototyping, and design systems. Their work is crucial in laying the foundation for a product's look, feel, and functionality during its critical early stages.

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To thrive as a Freelance Founding Product Designer, you need a strong background in user experience (UX), user interface (UI) design, and product strategy, often supported by a portfolio showcasing end-to-end product design work. Proficiency with design tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe Creative Suite, as well as familiarity with prototyping and collaboration platforms, is essential. Exceptional communication, adaptability, and problem-solving skills are crucial for navigating dynamic startup environments and collaborating remotely with diverse teams. These abilities ensure you can drive innovative product development while aligning design solutions with both user needs and business goals.

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Founding Designer

Rockstar

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

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Job description

Rockstar is recruiting for a pioneering fintech company that is revolutionizing embedded accounting solutions. Our client is building the future of financial infrastructure by providing seamless, API-driven accounting and bookkeeping tools that integrate directly into other platforms. They are a dynamic, early-stage team passionate about empowering small businesses through elegant, scalable technology.

The Role

As the Founding Product Designer, this individual will own design for the company's embedded accounting products and help evolve the visual brand as the company scales. They will set design strategy and own workstreams end to end across: product UX, interaction quality, design systems, and how the products show up inside the platform customers' products. This role will partner directly with the CEO and collaborate closely with engineering to ship quickly, sweat details, and build remarkable experiences.

You will:

- Own product design from concept to launch. Lead discovery, flows, IA, interaction design, and high-fidelity UI across the embedded accounting and bookkeeping experiences.

- Design for the embedded model. Create patterns that are intuitive for SMB end users while remaining flexible enough to match the look of the platform customers' products.

- Evolve the design system. Expand and maintain the component library and guidelines in close partnership with engineering.

- Work directly with customers. Help customers implement onboarding and marketing best practices surrounding the embedded UIs to launch successful accounting & bookkeeping products to their SMBs.

- Own the website. Create visually striking web experiences that showcase the product and brand narrative.

- Craft Marketing Visuals. Create engaging visual content for marketing launches and case studies.

- Drive Branding. Ensure the brand remains visually compelling and competitive.

Skills & experience

This role will suit someone who loves diving into open ended challenges, moving with urgency, and owning outcomes end-to-end. If they are invigorated by the idea fundamentally reimagining how accounting is done and helping small business owners, this role is for them.

We're looking for candidates who have:

- Excellent visual design craft and taste. They design elegant experiences that delight end users and hold a high bar for visual polish.

- Systems thinking. They naturally design reusable patterns and can evolve a design system without slowing shipping velocity.

- Deep Figma fluency. They live and breathe Figma. Components, variants, auto layout, etc. are all second nature.

- Customer empathy & domain curiosity. They are excited to dive into the world of accounting/bookkeeping and build deep empathy for both the platform customers and their SMB end-users.

- Exceptional communication skills. They collaborate closely with engineers and feel comfortable explaining tradeoffs to customers.

You might be a great fit if you:

- Have 5+ years of product design experience

- Have been a first or early designer at an early-stage startup (or equivalent high-ownership experience)

- Have designed SaaS or Fintech products used by SMBs

- Designed brands and public websites from the ground up

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