Founding AI Product Design Lead — Equity & Hybrid Austin

a16z-speedrun; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Maestro, founded in Austin, is building the future of luxury travel with world-class human advisors and AI agents working side by side to plan and execute extraordinary trips. We're an early-stage, Austin-based startup with top-tier VC backing and a team that lives inside modern AI tools every day.

As our founding designer, you’ll own design end to end across product, brand, and everything in between. You’ll define how Maestro looks, feels, and behaves across every touchpoint.

Qualifications

• Senior or leadership experience at a startup.
• Portfolio of shipped product work, especially consumer app design and backends.
• Comfort with complex internal workflows and polished consumer surfaces alike.
• Fluency with modern design and AI tools (Figma, Claude) and AI-native experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design product flows, interfaces, and interaction details for our consumer app, advisor tools, and ops workflows.
• Shape how AI shows up in the product by designing agentic and human-in-the-loop experiences that feel effortless and trustworthy.
• Own the brand: identity, site, decks, and all company touchpoints.
• Prototype and test with real members and advisors, iterating quickly.
• Run design review and hold the quality bar as we ship, keeping standards high without slowing the team down.
• Set the design culture, systems, and quality standards future hires will inherit.

Job description

Maestro, founded in Austin, is building the future of luxury travel with world-class human advisors and AI agents working side by side to plan and execute extraordinary trips. We're an early-stage, Austin-based startup with top-tier VC backing and a team that lives inside modern AI tools every day.

As our founding designer, you’ll own design end to end across product, brand, and everything in between. You’ll define how Maestro looks, feels, and behaves across every touchpoint.