Founding Product Designer

SAGARIS; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding equity

Competitive cash compensation

Remote-first with in-person offsites

Hardware and home-office budget

Comprehensive health coverage

Generous time-off policy

Direct access to founders

Job summary

SAGARIS is seeking a founding designer to shape the product's visual and interaction language from concept to shipped detail. You will own design direction alongside the founders and set patterns for how a revenue team's work is supervised and autonomous, ensuring trust rather than unease.

You will work closely with engineering, talk to real revenue teams, and build a coherent design system that scales as the company grows.

Qualifications

• Shipped product design portfolio showing problem framing, not just visuals.
• Experience across interaction, systems, and visual craft from flow to finished screens.
• Ability to defend design decisions with attention to detail and system thinking.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias to concrete outcomes quickly.
• Desire to be the founding design voice with ownership and exposure.

Responsibilities

• Own product design end to end, including flows, interaction models, and visual system.
• Invent patterns for human-agent collaboration: supervision, hand-offs, and trust.
• Define and maintain the design language as the product and team grow.
• Collaborate closely with engineering to ensure shipped product matches intent.
• Bring customer realities into decisions by talking with revenue teams.

Skills

Product design

Systems thinking

UX design

Prototyping

Collaboration with eng

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Job description

SAGARIS is a new kind of product: a revenue team's work, increasingly done by agents they supervise. There's no established pattern language for that, how you show what an agent is doing, how you hand off control, how you make autonomy feel trustworthy instead of unnerving. That's the design problem, and it's wide open.

As founding designer, you own it. You'll shape product direction alongside the founders, set the visual and interaction language, and stay hands-on from concept through shipped detail. This is a role for someone who wants to define a system, not decorate one.

What you'll do

• Own product design end to end, flows, interaction models, visual system, and the details that make it feel considered.
• Invent the patterns for human-agent collaboration: supervision, approval, hand-off, and trust.
• Set and hold the design language as the product and team grow.
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering so the shipped product matches the intent.
• Bring the customer's reality into every decision, you'll talk to real revenue teams often.

What we're looking for

• A portfolio of shipped product work where you clearly shaped the problem, not just the pixels.
• Range across interaction, systems, and visual craft, you can go from flow to finished screen.
• You think in systems and defend the details; both matter to you.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias to make things concrete quickly.
• You want to be the founding design voice, with the ownership and exposure that implies.

Nice to have

• Experience designing complex, data-dense, or professional tools.
• Enough fluency in code to prototype or to collaborate closely with engineers.
• A point of view on how AI changes interface design.

What success looks like

• In 3 months: a coherent design language and the core flows for human-agent supervision exist and ship.
• In 6 months: design partners describe the product as unusually clear for how much it does.
• In 12 months: SAGARIS has a recognisable design identity, and a system others can build on.

Benefits

• Meaningful founding equity, with a real stake in what you help build.
• Top-of-band cash compensation. We don't ask you to trade salary for story.
• Remote-first with deliberate in-person offsites; we optimise for deep work, not attendance.
• A hardware and home-office budget, plus whatever software makes you faster.
• Comprehensive health coverage and a genuinely respected time-off policy.
• Direct access to the founders and an outsized say in the roadmap and the culture.