Founding Product Designer

Improbable; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

Bolter is seeking a founding designer to rethink how people create, understand and work with AI agents across the product. You will lead a significant rewrite of the product and establish the design foundations for what comes next.

You will build the design system from the ground up, set interaction patterns for creating and steering AI agents, and shape the workspace and agent-generated applications. This early-stage role offers ownership and impact.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and shipping consumer-facing digital products, ideally AI products.
• Ability to build and own a design system from scratch.
• Strong sense of interaction patterns and product judgment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a significant redesign of the Bolter product.
• Build and own Bolter's design system from the ground up.
• Define interaction patterns for creating, understanding and steering AI agents.

Skills

Design systems

Interaction design

Product thinking

AI product design

Job description

Initial 3-month contract with possibility to extend

About Bolter

Bolter is an AI agent platform built to help people get real work done, without needing to stitch together multiple tools or spend weeks setting things up.You describe what you need in plain language and Bolter creates and runs agents that can carry out the work end to end. They retain context, remember how you work and can also create real, shareable apps such as trackers and dashboards.Bolter is funded and currently at the validation-sprint stage, working with a small group of high-impact operators. The product already exists. We are now looking for a founding designer to lead a significant redesign and establish the design foundations for what comes next.

About the role

As Bolter's founding designer, you will rethink how people create, understand and work with AI agents across the product.That includes the agent-building experience, the workspace where people can steer their agents, and the applications those agents generate.You will be working with an existing product, but there is no established design system you need to preserve. You will build that system from the ground up while deciding which parts of the current experience should evolve, which should be reworked and what new interaction patterns Bolter needs.The design problem goes beyond improving the interface. It is working out what it should feel like to collaborate with agents that retain context, carry out work and create software themselves.You will work directly with the GM in a lean team, with specialised AI agents supporting implementation. The product is still early enough that the core design decisions are open, and your work will shape how Bolter develops from here.

What you'll do

Lead a significant redesign of the existing Bolter productBuild and own Bolter's design system from the ground upDefine the interaction patterns for creating, understanding and steering AI agentsShape the experience across the workspace and agent-generated applicationsMake pragmatic trade-offs between speed, clarity and craftMove quickly from ideas to working designs and strengthen what proves usefulHelp shape the early design and product team as Bolter grows

What we're looking for

Experience designing and shipping consumer-facing digital products, ideally AI products, productivity tools or chat applicationsExperience significantly improving or rethinking an existing product experienceYou think in systems and interaction patterns, not individual screensYou have strong product and design judgementYou care about craft, but know when speed and pragmatism matter more than polishYou're comfortable designing while the product itself is still being defined, rather than working from a settled briefYou can form clear opinions and adapt them when the evidence changesExperience with AI products is particularly relevant, but we are also interested in designers who have worked on strong B2C or D2C productivity and chat experiences.Bolter already has a working product, but the design foundations are still being set. You will have meaningful ownership over how that experience evolves and the opportunity to help define what working with AI agents should actually feel like.If you want to transform an early AI product, we'd love to hear from you.