Founding Product Designer

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KnitCustomer research
Our team of ~80 is US remote friendlyFull-TimeSenior
Salary$210,000 - $240,000
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Job Details

Experience
7+ years of product design experience
Required Skills
Product designPrototyping

Requirements

  • Bring 7+ years of product design experience.
  • Have a track record of independently owning, designing, and shipping digital products from discovery through launch at early-stage startups.
  • Have experience as a founding or early designer who helped establish a company's design standards and practices.
  • Have experience building and maintaining scalable design systems, reusable components, and consistent patterns.
  • Be able to prototype, test, iterate, and ship quickly while making tradeoffs between speed and polish.
  • Provide a portfolio of product interfaces demonstrating strong visual taste, attention to detail, and polish.
  • Be able to simplify complex workflows and solve ambiguous user problems with strong UX and product judgment.
  • Understand frontend development principles and constraints, and collaborate with engineers on implementation quality.
  • Have experience conducting user interviews, usability testing, and workflow analysis.
  • Clearly explain design decisions and tradeoffs, challenge assumptions, and work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design initiatives from problem discovery and early concepts through prototyping, implementation, and iteration.
  • Work with PMs and engineers to turn ideas into shipped products and take ownership of their quality.
  • Create and maintain a design system with reusable components, patterns, and guidelines.
  • Establish design standards for PMs, engineers, and AI agents, and maintain visual quality and consistency across the product.
  • Evaluate the product to identify usability issues and opportunities for improvement.
  • Simplify complex workflows and rethink information architecture, interactions, and end-to-end experiences.
  • Work with enterprise customers, researchers, and internal teams to understand needs, workflows, and challenges.
  • Conduct interviews and usability tests, and use qualitative and quantitative research to inform designs.
  • Use tools like Amplitude to understand user behavior at scale.
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