About the company
Our client is a venture-backed AI software company rebuilding how go-to-market teams create customer-facing work. Its newly launched agent-first platform is growing at a double-digit weekly rate and is already used by major technology companies. With more than $71 million raised and a compact 20-person team, the company is at a rare point where strong traction meets a wide-open product and design language.
The role and why it matters
This is a founding design seat with direct access to product leadership, founders, and engineering. You will define how an AI-native product feels, how users direct and trust an agent, and what excellent generated work looks like across the customer journey.
What you'll do
• Own the core experience for requesting, shaping, reviewing, editing, and publishing agent-generated work.
• Invent new interaction models for an AI product rather than inheriting a mature design system.
• Set the visual and creative quality bar for both the interface and the agent's output.
• Partner closely with engineering to improve defaults, constraints, evaluations, brand adherence, and feedback loops.
• Shape product strategy with founders and product leadership, then prototype and refine ideas quickly.
• Move fluidly from product architecture and systems thinking to detailed interaction and visual decisions.
Requirements
What we're looking for
• At least 5 years of product design experience with a strong record of shipping products people use.
• A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional visual craft and novel zero-to-one work, not only assembled design-system screens.
• Experience in an early-stage or breakout startup, ideally in B2B SaaS, productivity software, or applied AI.
• Genuine enthusiasm for AI as a design medium and active use of modern AI tools in your work.
• High ownership, sound judgment, urgency, and comfort working directly with founders and engineers.
• Ability and willingness to work in the New York City office five days per week.
Bonus points
• Experience as a founding or sole designer at a venture-backed startup.
• A high-slope career path with rapid progression or recognition from a strong design fellowship.
• Experience designing creative tools, agent workflows, or AI-generated outputs.
Benefits
• $200K-$260K base salary.
• Competitive equity.
• Visa transfers may be considered for candidates who already hold valid U.S. work authorization. New visa sponsorship is not available.
• Full-time, on-site work in New York, NY. The team works together in the Flatiron area five days per week.
Skills Required
- At least 5 years of product design experience
- Strong record of shipping products used by customers
- Portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft and novel zero-to-one work
- Experience in an early-stage or breakout startup, ideally in B2B SaaS, productivity software, or applied AI
- Enthusiasm for AI as a design medium and active use of modern AI tools
- High ownership, sound judgment, urgency, and comfort working directly with founders and engineers
- Ability and willingness to work in the New York City office five days per week
- Experience as a founding or sole designer at a venture-backed startup
- Rapid career progression or recognition from a strong design fellowship
- Experience designing creative tools, agent workflows, or AI-generated outputs
What We Do
Raydar is a talent acquisition and business consulting firm that connects world-class and emerging talent with growing organizations. It supports companies through team development, strategic hiring, and customized growth solutions, helping clients recruit roles such as engineers, product managers, executives, legal counsel, and quantitative traders. Raydar focuses on understanding each organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals to build high-impact teams.
