Founding Product Designer

Quippy App, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Direct mentorship from founder

Impactful work on a YC-backed product

Small team in San Francisco

Job summary

Quippy App, Inc. is seeking its first designer to own the look and feel of the iPhone experience, working closely with engineering to ship real designs in days. You will design end-to-end flows, shape the conversation screen, and contribute to a growing design system with motion and a mascot.

You will prototype to validate decisions and explain design choices, with a founding role offering stock options. San Francisco-based team, YC-backed, with remote work possible for the right candidate.

Qualifications

• Shipped app screens used daily.
• Strong attention to spacing, timing, and microcopy.
• Able to prototype to answer design questions.

Responsibilities

• Design new features end to end from rough flows to finished screens.
• Shape the conversation screen where users interact with a scene partner.
• Contribute to a growing design system and motion language.
• Collaborate with engineering to ship quickly to users.

Skills

UI design

Product design

Prototyping

Design systems

Interaction design

Communication

Figma

Framer

Tools

Figma

Framer

Job description

Quippy (YC F26) is a daily practice room for the conversations people dread. You pick a real situation, like disagreeing with your manager or starting a conversation at a party, rehearse it with a realistic scene partner by voice or text, and get honest, line-by-line feedback on what landed. The app is live on the App Store.

You will be our first designer. You will own how Quippy looks and feels on the iPhone, work side by side with engineering, and see your designs in people's hands within days.

What you will work on

• Design new features end to end, from rough flows to finished screens
• Shape the conversation screen, where people talk with a scene partner by voice or text
• Make feedback feel kind and honest at the same time
• Grow the Quippy design system, its motion, and its mascot

You might be a fit if

• You have shipped app screens that people use every day
• You care about small details: spacing, timing, the words on a button
• You prototype to answer questions instead of debating them
• You can explain why a design works, and change your mind when users show you otherwise

Why join now

• A founding role with shares in the company
• You work directly with Jonathan, the founder
• What you build reaches real users within days
• A small team in San Francisco, backed by Y Combinator

Full-time. San Francisco preferred, remote work possible. Competitive salary and stock in the company.