Founding Designer
Dot ProductWhy work at Dot Product?
We care deeply about doing Great Work.
We are solving a hard technology problem with an enormous market and impact opportunity on the other side.
We are a small team of staff-level builders and intend to keep it this way. We hail from companies like Stripe, Coinbase, Primer and Pipe.
You will get to be part of the founding team and build the company together with us. We mean it.
We work in person out of our office in San Francisco.
Who we are looking for
We aim to build this company with ambitious, driven, and kind colleagues. These are the qualities we are looking for in our founding team:
An extreme level of autonomy, ownership, and self-direction.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. We will ask for writing samples.
Experience and/or a strong desire to work in an early-stage environment.
Ability to take a long view of the world, but remain hyper focused on moving the needle every day.
A demonstrated history of technical excellence in previous jobs, personal projects, or school.
What you will work on
This is a Founding Designer position, so you will get to work on all aspects of company building from product and brand design to high level strategy to company culture.
Collaborate with the rest of the team on the overall design and product direction.
Set the foundations of the team design culture.
Create new UX paradigms to take advantage of the AI capabilities.
Work closely with our early customers to iterate on the product designs and create new features.
Must haves
4+ years of design experience.
Excellent visual, UX, and interaction design skills.
Good intuition for making product design, engineering, and business tradeoffs.
Experience doing 0-to-1 work at either startups or personal projects.
Nice to haves
Frontend engineering experience.
Strong interest or prior experience working on AI native products.
Strong interest or prior experience in brand design.
Experience working at early-stage and fast-growing companies.