Founding Designer

Garage; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and stock options

100% covered health, dental and vision insurance

Unlimited paid time off

Daily lunch & dinner

$100 / month wellness stipend

401(k) with employer match

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Bi-annual team offsite

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Garage is seeking a Founding Designer to lead the design function across both brand and product. This role focuses on visual design for end-to-end buyer and seller experiences on their platform. The ideal candidate has expertise in UX design and strong visual design skills.

Offering a salary range of $150,000 to $200,000, Garage provides stock options, comprehensive health insurance, and unlimited paid time off, making it an attractive opportunity for creative professionals.

Qualifications

• A creative designer comfortable in fast-paced environments.
• Expertise in UX and a deep understanding of user flows and interaction design.
• Strong visual design skills with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Shape and grow the design function across brand and product.
• Own visual design for buyer and seller experiences on the marketplace.
• Create compelling sales and marketing materials.
• Collaborate with marketing and engineering to deliver high-fidelity designs.
• Engage with customers to enhance user experiences.

Skills

UX Design

Visual Design

Customer Focus

Job description

Founding Designer at Garage (YC W24)

About us

Garage is building the platform that powers commerce across America's essential industries. We started by serving fire departments, where buying mission‑critical vehicles and equipment used to take months of paperwork, phone calls, and waiting. We automate the entire transaction: payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing. Months become minutes.

In under a year, we now serve local governments across all 50 states and have grown revenue >10x. We recently closed a $13.5M Series A ($18M total raised) from Infinity Ventures, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, FJ Labs, and other top investors. We’re early, we’re moving fast, and we’re just getting started.

About the role

• We’re looking for someone to shape and grow the design function across both brand and product.
• Own the visual design of our products, mainly relating to end-to-end buyer and seller experiences on the marketplace.
• Create visually compelling sales and marketing materials (static and video) that will be consumed by hundreds of thousands around the country.
• Work closely with marketing and engineering to ship high-fidelity designs.
• Talk to customers and use data, research, and iteration to continuously improve user experiences.
• Help us build out our design team, and dive deep into areas that you find more interesting as we grow.
• Ability and willingness to work in-person in NYC.

We're looking for someone who:

• A creative designer comfortable working in a fast-moving, high-performance startup environment.
• Expertise in UX, with a deep understanding of user flows, interaction design, and usability.
• A sharp eye for visual design and detail-oriented.

You could work anywhere, so why Garage?

• We’ve grown revenue over 10x in the last year and are well capitalized after a recent $13.5M Series A ($18M in funding raised total).
• Our product is something people use everyday to buy the equipment local communities everywhere depend on.
• We have a talent-dense, high-performance team where everyone joining now has an outsized impact.
• What we’ve built works. We’re backed by world-class vendors: Y Combinator, Infinity Ventures, Initialized Capital, FJ Labs, and more.
• You’ll be one of our first 35 employees, operating as a foundational member of the team, partnering alongside the company’s founders.

The values that fuel us at Garage:

• Growth oriented. We invest in people who grow as the company grows. We all should be constantly learning.
• Humility. Everyone has a lot to give and a lot to learn. We believe in creating an environment where the best ideas win and acknowledging when we are wrong.
• Customer focused. We have a genuine love for our customers. Customer success is our success.
• Hack to success. We move fast and take big swings. We always aim for a solution that addresses 80% of the problem in 20% of the time. We make informed bets, launch quickly, and iterate.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and stock options
• 100% covered health, dental and vision insurance (with additional buy-up options)
• Unlimited paid time off every year in addition to company observed holidays
• Daily lunch & dinner
• $100 / month wellness stipend
• 401(k) w/ employer match to help save for your future
• Pre‑tax commuter benefits
• Bi‑annual team offsite
• Relocation assistance

We realize applying for jobs can feel daunting at times. We don’t expect you to check all the qualification boxes and encourage you to apply if you have experience in some of the areas.

The salary range for this role is $150,000 to $200,000. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. This compensation range may also be modified in the future.

Equal Opportunity

As an equal‑opportunity employer, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where you can be you. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, natural origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected class.