Founding Designer

Interfere (YC S25); New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading startup focused on AI-driven user experience seeks a Founding Designer who will shape the future of its design practices. This role combines high-level responsibilities with the creative freedom to craft exceptional products. Candidates will have the opportunity to work closely with the founding team and refine design principles in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

1:1 mentorship

Competitive salary and equity

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Opportunity to go through Y Combinator

Qualifications

• Desire to build the best products.
• Proven ability to design intuitive, beautiful interfaces.
• Ability to articulate design decisions quickly.

Responsibilities

• Own design & product initiatives end-to-end.
• Create beautiful and functional design artifacts.
• Obsess over users and their usage.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Exceptional product taste

High-ownership mentality

Job description

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Base pay range

$110,000.00/yr - $174,000.00/yr

Interfere’s mission is to build the “self-healing layer of the internet”: software that detects bugs, figures out a root cause, and ships its own fix – all before a human can open logs. Unlike traditional observability tools that aim to make logs easier to read, Interfere will eliminate the need to read logs at all.

AI Now Allows Anyone To Ship Anything, But You Still Need Taste And Craft To Build Great Products. We Want To Build The Tools To Allow For Product Excellence Everywhere – To Be a Guaranteed Outcome For Any Team. To Do So, We’ve Raised ~$1.7m From Y Combinator, Worldbuild, Soleio, And a Coalition Of Founders From Some Of The Greatest Companies In The World.\ \ You Will

• Own design & product initiatives end-to-end, with little satisfaction in “good enough”.
• Create interfaces & design artifacts that are both exceptionally beautiful, but ruthlessly functional. Instead of prioritizing function or form, we choose both.
• Obsess over users & their usage to invent new ways to solve old problems.
• Build an online presence to raise help Interfere’s design to legendary status – talented people attract other talented people.
  
  

\ What we're looking for:

• Immense pride in the work you do and a desire to build the best products on earth.
• Exceptional product taste and a proven ability to design intuitive, beautiful interfaces.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate design decisions and rationale quickly.
• High-ownership mentality, capable of thriving in a fast-paced startup environment.
  
  

\ Nice to haves:

• Prior experience designing developer or technical user-focused tools.
• Familiarity with observability or developer productivity platforms.
• Interest in integrating AI-driven capabilities within user experience design.
  
  

What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape foundational design practices at an early-stage, ambitious startup where “design-first principles” isn’t a catchphrase, it’s a religion.
• 1:1 mentorship on becoming a world-class Design Engineer, if interested.
• Go through Y Combinator with us (Jul – Sept).
• Competitive salary and equity with health / dental / vision coverage.
  
  

\ Logistics:

• The best outcomes & ideas often come naturally, and so Interfere is an in-person company in NYC starting September. We will pay for you to come to SF for Y Combinator if that interests you, or help you move to NYC if you’re in San Francisco.
• For international candidates, we are happy to sponsor work visas to come to the United States should you require it, now or in the future.
  
  

If you're excited about creating groundbreaking user experiences that redefine how products are built, we'd love to see your portfolio and a few words about you.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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