Founding Designer

Corridor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Office in South Beach SF

Job summary

Corridor is seeking a founding designer to shape our brand identity and product feel across our software security platform. You’ll own visual language, UI/UX, and how we present to candidates, customers, and investors.

Work with the CTO and cross-functional teams to translate complex security concepts into delightful interfaces, build design systems, and push product design from zero in a hybrid San Francisco environment.

Qualifications

• Portfolio showing brand and product design with end-to-end shipping.
• Hands-on ability to code or work with AI to implement designs.
• Strong product intuition and user-focused mindset.
• Ability to translate complex security products into clear interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Establish Corridor’s brand reputation at AI coding and security intersection.
• Define and solidify visual identity and design language and implement it.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, recruiting, and marketing to reflect brand identity across touchpoints.
• Talk with customers, conduct user interviews, translate insights into UX/product experiences.
• Design product experiences and UI/UX that drive adoption.
• Work with founders, own ambiguous problems, and move autonomously.

Skills

Brand design

Product design

UI/UX

User research

Tools

Figma

Design systems

Frontend basics

Job description

About Corridor

Software development is becoming autonomous. The fastest teams already work this way, and at Corridor, we are leading the way on secure development as the rest of the industry follows.Security tools were designed for a world where a person wrote the code and a person reviewed it. That's changing quickly. Corridor is securing software factories. We are the security solution for software that builds itself at every level of autonomy. We are preventing vulnerabilities as agents write code, and guiding teams to help decide what's safe to ship.We're a small, talented team, led by Jack Cable (Former CISA – Secure by Design), Ashwin Ramaswami (Former CISA, Stanford, and Schmidt Futures) and, Alex Stamos (Former CISO of Facebook, Yahoo, SentinelOne).Corridor is backed by Conviction, with a $25M Series A led by Felicis and our customers include ElevenLabs, Lovable, Mercor, and Langchain.

Summary

As Founding Designer, you'll be responsible for Corridor's entire visual and product presence. You'll shape our brand identity and how our product feels and works. You'll ship the work that defines how we look and feel to candidates, customers, and investors. This is a 01 role with direct impact on both product quality and the go-to-market function and reports directly to the CTO.

What You'll Do

• Establish Corridor’s brand reputation as the company at the intersection of AI coding and security

• Define and solidify our visual identity and design language (logo, color palette, typography, etc.) and build it yourself

• Working closely with our product, engineering, recruiting, and marketing teams to ensure our brand identity is reflected in our website, marketing presence, recruiting materials, and product experience

• Talk directly with customers, conduct user interviews, and translate insights into intuitive UX and product experiences

• Design product experiences and UI/UX that make product adoption feel natural

• Working directly with founders, owning ambiguous problems, and moving autonomously

What You'll Bring

• Portfolio showing both brand work and product design, with a track record of shipping end-to-end

• Hands-on technical ability: technical fluency to build what you design, ability to write code with or without AI

• Strong product intuition and taste: you think about user needs before being asked

• Ability to translate complex security products into clear, delightful interfaces and messaging

• Strategic thinker who moves fast: you ship iteratively and learn from users

Nice to Have

• Security, developer tools, or AI codegen background

• Startup experience building a brand and product from zero

• Strong design systems or frontend engineering background

• Familiarity with AI and how design impacts trust in AI products

• Go-to-market understanding

Equal Opportunity

Corridor is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.We're looking for someone open to working in a hybrid environment c.3 days per week in our South Beach, San Francisco office.