Founding Designer

Usecardboard; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Unlimited tokens

Healthy budget for tools and equipment

Job summary

Usecardboard is seeking a founding designer who will shape the product’s look and functionality. You will own product design end to end, ensuring a user-centric approach while collaborating closely with founders and engineering. Ideal candidates are Figma experts with a passion for micro-interactions and resourcefulness.

You'll be part of a talented team who excel in their fields, with a promise of competitive salary, equity, and unlimited resources to create your best work.

Qualifications

• You have taste.
• You own things end-to-end.
• You think like a PM.
• You are resourceful in finding designers and freelancers.
• You have experience building parts of a design system.

Responsibilities

• Own product design end to end: flows, UI, prototypes.
• Advocate for the user in every room.
• Work closely with founders, engineering, and growth.
• Build a cohesive design system.
• Create something people love.

Skills

Figma expertise

Design system development

User advocacy

Micro-interactions

Resourcefulness

Job description

• We're building the future of storytelling and video editing.
• We're a small team that moves fast and builds things we're proud of.
• We care obsessively about taste: in design, in product, in every detail.
• We're backed by a Tier-1 global fund, YC, and founders of billion dollar companies.

Design

Video is the most powerful way humans tell stories. It always has been. But creating it today is still painfully hard.Fragmented tools, steep learning curves, and workflows that get in the way of the actual creative work. We're buildingCardboard to change that.

As our founding designer, you'll shape not just how the product looks, but how it works. You think product first andpush back when something doesn't serve the user, and think through every user flow before a component gets shipped.

In our team, everyone has incredible speed, taste, and care that they put into their work. You'll often see peoplecoming up with micro-interactions nobody asked for and losing sleep over things that feel slightly off by a sheer twopixels. Your job is to accelerate and harness that energy to make sure everything we build feels cohesive andintentional.

You will

• Own product design end to end: flows, UI, prototypes, and everything in between.
• Advocate for the user in every room like a PM does.
• Work closely with founders, engineering, and growth.
• Build a design system.
• Make something people love.

Who you are

• You have taste.
• You own things end-to-end.
• You think like a PM. You notice the extra click, the label doing two jobs, the feature that shipped but isn't reallydone.
• AI-pilled and restlessly curious. Rive, Spline, Paper, Reve, Claude design, whatever dropped last week, you've alreadytried it.
• You're a Figma expert. You love micro-interactions. You've probably built parts of a design system, or at least feltthe pain of not having one.
• Resourceful. When you need an illustrator, motion designer, or freelancer, you find them and direct them well.
• Bonus: you vibe coded or shipped a side project.

What you get

You'd be surrounded by people who are absurdly good at what they do. One started coding at 11 and shipped an app with 6M+ downloads in high school. One got into CS engineering at 14 and has been working on distributed systems for 8+ years. One's an ex-founder who took a company to 1.2M users and $300M+ in transactions. That's the team. We're looking for someone who'll raise the bar on the creative side the way we have on the technical and business side. Apart from that you'd get:

• Competitive salary and founding-team equity.
• Unlimited tokens. Use whatever you want, as much as you want.
• A healthy budget for tools, monitors, laptop, and anything you need to do your best work.
• Your favorite product and one sentence on why.
• One piece of work that you're proud of.
• Optional: if you'd like, record and send us a quick video : )

P.S. Keep your email short. Let the work speak for itself.