Early-Stage Product Designer, Design Systems for AI

Embedding VC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental, vision

PTO

Flexible work schedule

Job summary

Abaka AI is building a new product and software engineering team in Silicon Valley. We’re hiring a Product Designer to own the user experience across web and mobile, shaping how our products look and feel from day one.

You’ll reason from first principles, not just deliver screens, and contribute to a scalable design system with engineers and a design lead. You’ll be responsible for end-to-end design, from discovery to polished UI, and you’ll help implement a cohesive design language across

Qualifications

• 1–4 years of experience in UI/UX design with shipped work you can walk us through.
• A portfolio showing both web and mobile product design (responsive web and native iOS/Android patterns).
• Strong UX fundamentals: information architecture, interaction design, user flows, and usability.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product design for web and mobile: discovery, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI.
• Frame problems before solving them; talk to users and challenge requirements when better answers exist.
• Build our design system from scratch: foundations, tokens, and a shared component library used across products.
• Design consistent experiences across our products and platforms, starting from the system rather than a blank page.
• Collaborate with engineers to ship: prototype quickly, hand off clearly, and review what’s built to keep quality high.
• Use research, usability testing, and product data to validate decisions and improve live products.
• Help shape how the team works: design reviews, critique, and processes for a growing product team.

Skills

UI/UX design

User research

Systems thinking

Visual design

Communication

Tools

Figma

HTML/CSS prototyping

React prototyping

Job description

Abaka AI is building a new product and software engineering team in Silicon Valley. We’re hiring a Product Designer to own the user experience across web and mobile, shaping how our products look and feel from day one.

You’ll reason from first principles, not just deliver screens, and contribute to a scalable design system with engineers and a design lead. You’ll be responsible for end-to-end design, from discovery to polished UI, and you’ll help implement a cohesive design language across