Founding Product Designer

Generative; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Generative is hiring a Founding Product Designer to work directly with the founder and shape how businesses interact with AI agents. The role is in New York or San Francisco, in person, with the potential to set the design direction as the company grows.

You’ll own the product experience from discovery to shipped product, collaborating with founding engineers and customers to simplify complex workflows, define interaction patterns, and build an intuitive, thoughtful interface.

Qualifications

• Portfolio demonstrating strong product judgment, interaction design and visual craft.
• Experience taking ambiguous problems to shipped product.
• Ability to simplify complex workflows and explain design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the founder and customers to understand business operations.
• Design how users assign work to agents, monitor progress and stay in control.
• Develop interaction patterns and choose interfaces for each task.
• Take ideas through user flows, prototypes and detailed product design with founding engineers.
• Set the design direction and lead the design team as the company grows.

Skills

Product design

Interaction design

Visual craft

Portfolio

Job description

Founding Product Designer | AI Startup | 4–7% equity

New York or San Francisco · In person

I’m hiring a Founding Product Designer to work directly with the founder and define how businesses interact with AI agents.

The founder is ex-Google and ex-Spotify, and previously co-founded a YC-backed startup. Funding is secured and the first customer agreements are signed.

The company is building AI agents to run operations across real-world commerce, connecting workflows across customer onboarding, inventory, administration and billing.

The design challenge is making that experience clear and intuitive: helping business owners delegate work, understand what agents are doing, approve decisions and resolve exceptions.

As the first designer, you’ll own the product experience from customer discovery through to the first shipped product.

You’ll:

• Work directly with the founder and customers to understand how their businesses operate.
• Design how users assign work to agents, monitor progress and stay in control.
• Develop interaction patterns from first principles and choose the right interface for each task.
• Take ideas through user flows, prototypes and detailed product design, working closely with the founding engineers.
• Set the design direction, with scope to build and lead the design team as the company grows.

I’m looking for a portfolio that demonstrates strong product judgment, interaction design and visual craft, alongside evidence of taking an ambiguous problem through to a product people actually use.

You should be comfortable simplifying complex workflows, explaining your design decisions and working directly with customers and engineers.

Experience with AI products or complex operational software would be useful. What matters most is your ability to create a thoughtful experience and get it shipped.

Competitive compensation, with 4–7% equity being discussed depending on the overall package.