Founding Product Designer

True Talent Solutions Partners; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

True Talent Solutions Partners seeks its first product designer for an early-stage AI data company. You will own the contributor platform experience and bring designs from concept to production in San Mateo, California.

Identify usability issues, craft user flows for non-technical contributors, and partner with leadership and engineers to deliver intuitive product experiences. Build and maintain a design system and ship UI changes with the existing frontend stack.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of product or UX design with consumer focus.
• Strong design taste, rapid iteration across directions.
• Experience shipping frontend/UI changes to production.
• Familiar with React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS.
• Startup experience and comfort in fast-moving environments.
• Design experience beyond dashboards/B2B.
• Authorized to work without visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Identify usability challenges and design, implement, and ship improvements across the contributor platform.
• Create clear user flows for non-technical contributors.
• Partner with leadership and engineers to translate project needs into intuitive product experiences.
• Build and maintain the design system, reusable components, and visual language.
• Use AI coding tools and the existing frontend stack to implement and ship UI changes.
• Prototype quickly, observe user behavior, and iterate on designs and experiments.
• Improve product quality across loading and empty states, responsive layouts, copy, and edge cases.

Skills

Product design

UX design

Frontend UI

React

TypeScript

HTML/CSS

AI coding tools

Startup experience

Visa sponsorship not required

Authorization to work

Design systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (not required)

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Job description

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI data company as its first product designer, owning the end-to-end experience for a platform that helps contributors complete data tasks used in AI development. You will shape intuitive consumer-focused workflows and bring designs directly to production.

What You’ll Do

• Identify usability challenges and design, implement, and ship improvements across the contributor platform.

• Create clear user flows that help non-technical contributors understand complex task requirements.

• Partner with company leadership and engineers to turn project needs into intuitive product experiences.

• Build and maintain the design system, reusable components, and visual language.

• Use AI coding tools and the existing frontend stack to implement and ship UI changes.

• Prototype quickly, observe user behavior, and iterate on designs and experiments.

• Improve product quality across loading and empty states, responsive layouts, copy, and edge cases.

What We’re Looking For

• One to two years of product or UX design experience, including internships, with consumer product design experience.

• Strong design taste, high iteration speed, and experience exploring multiple design directions and experimentation.

• Experience shipping frontend or UI changes to production, not only handing off designs.

• Familiarity with React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, and experience using AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex.

• Startup experience and comfort working in a fast-moving environment; experience as a founding or solo designer is a plus.

• Product design experience beyond dashboard-focused B2B work.

• Authorization to work without visa sponsorship.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $130,000 to $160,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Mateo, California.