Founding Designer

Spur; New York (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily lunch, snacks, and more

High quality medical, dental, and vision coverage

Unlimited PTO

Spur Swag

Job summary

Spur, based in New York City, is looking for a passionate product designer to redefine the way testing is perceived in software development. The role involves crafting the visual identity and user experiences for innovative testing tools, aimed at empowering all team members to engage with testing seamlessly.

You will work closely with product and engineering teams, ensuring that design quality drives our development. This is an exciting opportunity to impact product direction within an early-stage company.

Benefits include daily meals, flexible health coverage, and unlimited PTO.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience designing for technical or ops-heavy users.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining quality.
• Familiarity with AI and its applications in product design.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product design from ideation to delivery.
• Create visual identity, design systems, and workflows.
• Collaborate with departments to shape the product roadmap.

Skills

High product quality standards

Problem-solving

Experience in product design

Ability to structure ambiguous situations

Attention to detail

Job description

Overview: Spur is every company’s AI QA Engineer.

Spur lets you test your website with natural language. Our AI agents act like real users—automating end-to-end testing without requiring traditional QA infrastructure.

Spur is founded by 2 Yale Alums, and is backed by leading investors like First Round Capital, Neo, Pear VC, Conviction, and YCombinator. We are transforming the testing world, completely re-imagining what testing means from first principles. We're already accelerating engineering teams at some of the fastest-growing companies in the world.

Read our Manifesto: https://www.spurtest.com/founders-letter

The Opportunity: Why Design Matters at Spur

Design is not a layer at Spur—it’s foundational.

As we scale quickly with customers like Wander.com, Living Spaces and Nextdoor, we're looking for a designer who can define how testing feels—not just how it functions. This is your chance to reimagine one of the most under-designed spaces in software.

Testing tools & Testing Systems Traditionally look like this …..

With Spur, testing isn’t siloed in engineering or QA. Now, anyone on the team—from PMs to support and sales—can create and run tests using natural language.

That shift changes everything.

We’re eliminating the need for heavy testing teams and infrastructure—while raising the quality bar. The UX is central to making this possible. It has to feel trustworthy, intuitive, and powerful, all at once.

AI is integrated at every stage of the journey—test creation, editing, execution, and reporting. Designing seamless, AI-driven workflows that build user confidence will be one of your most exciting and impactful challenges.

We see this as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to redefine what UI/UX for software testing looks like—and we’re looking for someone who’s excited to take that on.

We would love to meet you if:

• You’re your own toughest critic and hold yourself to an exceptionally high standard—90% isn’t good enough. You move fast, take initiative, and care deeply about doing things right.
• You don’t just point out problems—you roll up your sleeves and solve them.
• You’ve shipped complex, high-quality products, ideally with 2+ years of experience designing for technical or ops-heavy users.
• You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and bringing structure where none exists.
• You move quickly, but never at the expense of craft and polish.

The core work will include:

• Own end-to-end product design, from early ideation through polished, shipped experiences
• Create Spur’s visual identity—including brand, design system, and style guidelines
• Design entirely new user workflows that make complex systems feel fast, intuitive, and powerful
• Drive a culture of craft, where design quality and attention to detail are valued across the company
• Work closely with engineering and product to shape the roadmap through a design lens
• Help define our voice and presence—not just in-product, but across marketing and how Spur shows up in the world

Where this role can grow

• Build & lead the design team, including hiring and team culture
• Shape our public design voice, through thought leadership, events, talks, and writing
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• Collaborate on GTM, helping craft assets, launch moments, and social content
• Host design gatherings and represent Spur at industry events and conferences

Bonus points if you:

• Have prior experience founding a company or building products at early stages
• Are ambitious and driven, and care a lot about doing great work with great people
• Passion for ML/AI and its potential in product design

This is an in person role at our office in NYC. We’re an early stage company which means that the role requires working hard and moving quickly. Please only apply if that excites you.

Benefits at Spur

• Daily lunch, snacks, and more are available everyday in the office (you help choose)!
• High quality medical, dental, and vision coverage options, flexible depending on your needs.
• Unlimited PTO (We believe that recharging is essential to being the best that you can be.)
• Spur Swag (which we hope you will design)

Our beautiful office in NYC!!

Spur is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law.