Founding UX Designer

Overview

In this role you build the product experience from the ground up, shaping how teams collaborate with AI-first workflows. You work directly with a Silicon Valley founder and a small design team to move beyond usability toward a lovable product. You own the end-to-end UX—discovery through deployment—driving clarity, structure, and impactful interactions. This is a blank-slate opportunity to design complex systems and a scalable design language that sets the product apart. You’ll help transform ambiguity into a strong, user-centric product direction that aligns with the founder’s vision.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary + equity
• Flexible work setup
• Remote-friendly with London-based in-person meetups
• Direct collaboration with a Silicon Valley founder
• Strong founder access
• Startup environment

Responsibilities

• Shape interaction design across the product and AI-first workflows
• Define information architecture to support scalable product experiences
• Lead end-to-end UX from discovery to deployment with ownership and autonomy
• Contribute to and evolve the design system for consistency and efficiency
• Collaborate closely with the founder and a small design team to align on vision and priorities
• Balance usability with product-love by crafting usable, lovable tools in a pre-PMF startup context

Key requirements

• Experience designing complex systems in startup environments
• Comfort working pre-product-market fit and shaping product direction
• Strong collaboration and feedback orientation, especially with fast-thinking founders
• Structured approach to information architecture and interaction design
• Ability to apply AI-first design thinking to sketch, prototype, and iterate with real users and data

• collaborative
• fast-thinking
• feedback-oriented
• AI-first design thinking
• information architecture
• interaction design

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