Founding Designer

Posted 5 Days Ago
Be an Early Applicant
San Francisco, CA
In-Office
150K-200K Annually
Mid level
Angel or VC Firm
The Role
As the Founding Product Designer at Blueberry, you will shape product and design culture by creating intuitive user experiences and design systems, collaborating closely with founding teams, and iterating on product features and brand identity.
Summary Generated by Built In
About Us

Blueberry is building the 1:1 marketer for the world’s most ambitious brands. The way brands engage with customers is fundamentally shifting. In the early days, founders reply to every comment, DM every follower, and know customers by name. But as audiences grow into the hundreds of thousands or millions, that intimacy breaks. Even with social managers, no team can authentically know every follower, so brands default to 1:many channels like mass email, SMS, and generic posts. The personal touch disappears.

At Blueberry, we’re rebuilding that intimacy at scale. Our product performs deep research on social followers, enables brands to authentically engage through personalized DMs, and delivers the perfect offer tailored to each customer at exactly the right moment. What once felt impossible, knowing every follower by name and why they care about your brand, is now achievable.

In under 3 months, we're live with 10+ brands, including several 9-figure direct-to-consumer (DTC) companies, and NBA teams to drive substantial revenue and nurture lasting loyalty.

We’re backed by Pear VC (first checks into Doordash, Dropbox, and Gusto), Founders, Inc., and recently invited SignalFire to our investor group. Now, we’re hiring the founding team that will scale Blueberry across the world’s largest brands.

The Role

In an AI-native world where code is increasingly commoditized, taste becomes the moat. Our customers are the marketers behind the fastest-growing consumer brands in the world; design quality isn’t a “nice to have,” it’s table stakes. This is why we are intentionally hiring a product designer as one of the first hires in Blueberry’s history.

As Founding Product Designer, you’ll work directly with the founders to shape Blueberry’s product, design system, and brand DNA. You’ll define how the product looks, feels, and behaves. In doing so, influence how global brands build authentic relationships with millions of customers.

You’ll own the end-to-end product design process, from early exploration to polished execution. This role is equal parts craft, judgment, and ownership. What you design early will set the standard for the product and design culture as the company scales.

What You’ll Do

Design Blueberry alongside the founders and early team, from zero-to-one through early scale

  • Design the future of Blueberry alongside the founders, Nima & Sean. You’ll work on early feature definition and sit shoulder to shoulder with engineers to ship features and bring them to market.

  • Establish our core product design language, system, and identity.

  • Translate customer needs (especially enterprise B2C and DTC brands) into elegant, intuitive product experiences.

  • Prototype, test, and iterate: jump between “explore” mode (trying bold ideas, rapid prototyping in Figma or code with modern AI tools) and “exploit” mode (perfecting promising features, nailing interactions, typography, and motion).

  • Design and ship features end-to-end — from flows and wireframes to pixel-perfect UI.

  • Set the bar for taste, usability, and craft across every customer-facing surface.

  • Partner closely with engineering to ensure designs are technically feasible, performant, and thoughtfully implemented.

  • Engage directly with customers to understand workflows, validate designs, and iterate quickly based on real usage.

  • Develop and maintain design documentation to support consistency as the product and team scale.

  • Contribute to outward-facing visual work (product marketing assets, animations, sales decks, brand moments) to ensure consistency across touchpoints.

  • Help define how design decisions are made at Blueberry, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.

  • Build the foundation for future product and design teams by codifying standards, principles, and best practices.

Who You Are
  • A product designer with 3+ years of experience, ideally in AI-native products, SaaS, consumer apps, or DTC-adjacent tools.

  • You move fast, take initiative, and care deeply about doing things right.

  • You don’t just identify problems — you roll up your sleeves and solve them end-to-end.

  • You bring a clear point of view on what great looks like, while staying collaborative and low-ego.

  • You hold yourself to an exceptionally high bar; 90% isn’t good enough.

  • Entrepreneurial at heart: you thrive in ambiguity and enjoy building from the ground up.

  • You have strong product judgment and can make thoughtful tradeoffs without perfect information.

  • You care deeply about the details — interactions, copy, and edge cases — because that’s where great products are made.

  • You want to win, and you want to work with others who do too.

Why Join Us
  • Design is a Priority: We recognize that taste and design will be a core differentiator for who wins this market. You will have the founders’ direct support in ensuring this thinking permeates throughout the company.

  • High-impact from day one: You’ll design the systems, flows, and identity that define how the world’s fastest-growing DTC brands engage millions of customers. What you create in your first months will be in the hands of category-defining brands.

  • Experienced Founders: You’ll work alongside experienced founders with deep product, engineering, and GTM expertise in the space (ex-Snapchat, ex-Cardless, multi-time founders)

  • Momentum: In under three months, we’re live with 10+ brands and backed by Pear VC and Founders, Inc. You’ll be joining at a critical inflection point as we position ourselves to win this market.

What We Offer
  • Office in SF: We believe the best work is done in person. We cover lunch everyday in our office, and dinner for days you work late.

  • Competitive Compensation: $150K-$200K, potential for equity commensurate with experience

  • Team Outings: We believe that world-class companies are built by world-class people, so you can expect team dinners, escape rooms, and yes, NBA games

  • Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance with 401(k) matching, Unlimited PTO

  • Design the future of how brands interact with consumers, authentically

  • An opportunity to lead and define our company and industry.

Want to help shape how the fastest growing brands connect with their customers? We’d love to meet you.

Blueberry is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law.

Top Skills

Figma
Modern Ai Tools
Am I A Good Fit?
beta
Get Personalized Job Insights.
Our AI-powered fit analysis compares your resume with a job listing so you know if your skills & experience align.

The Company
HQ: Menlo Park, CA
154 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed. The startups we back go far. Best-in-class founders do not come around every day. When they do, we jump at the opportunity to work together. Our approach is to work with just a small number of best-in-class founders so we can dig in and go deep.

Similar Jobs

Pear VC Logo Pear VC

Designer

Angel or VC Firm
In-Office or Remote
7 Locations
154 Employees
9-9 Annually

Pear VC Logo Pear VC

Designer

Angel or VC Firm
In-Office
San Francisco, CA, USA
154 Employees
In-Office
San Francisco, CA, USA
6 Employees

HockeyStack Logo HockeyStack

Product Designer

Artificial Intelligence • Software • Analytics • Financial Services
In-Office
San Francisco, CA, USA
85 Employees
150K-200K Annually

Similar Companies Hiring

Cie Thumbnail
Software • Enterprise Web • Digital Media • Consulting • Co-Working Space or Incubator • Angel or VC Firm • Agency
Irvine, CA
65 Employees
M13 Thumbnail
Angel or VC Firm
New York, NY
40 Employees
The HEICO Companies, LLC Thumbnail
Manufacturing • Industrial • Angel or VC Firm
Warrenville, IL
9000 Employees

Sign up now Access later

Create Free Account

Please log in or sign up to report this job.

Create Free Account