Founding Product Designer, AI-Native Platform

Fundamental; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fundamental is seeking a founding Product Designer to establish design at Fundamental and shape how users experience our AI-powered platform. You’ll own the design system at the heart of our platform and lead the UX and UI for our platform and agentic products.

This hands-on role offers significant ownership, partnering with Product and Engineering from problem framing through detailed design and implementation to shipping delightful product experiences.

Qualifications

• 7+ years designing technical products in enterprise software.
• Hands-on AI/ML workflows and agentic interfaces experience.
• Strong research with technical users and usability testing.
• Ability to influence product decisions and collaborate with Product/Engineering.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and turning concepts into shipped experiences.
• Portfolio demonstrating interaction design and systems thinking.
• Experience designing AI-native design systems and developer tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Establish Fundamental's product design approach, principles, and standards.
• Build and evolve an AI-native design system used across surfaces.
• Shape platform UX, guiding end-to-end experiences for AI workflows.
• Lead user research, prototyping, and validation with technical users.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to deliver high-quality interfaces.
• Mentor designers and contribute to design practice growth.

Skills

7+ years in product design

AI/ML domain expertise

Research skills

Collaboration & leadership

Ambiguity tolerance

Portfolio demonstrated impact

Problem-solving ability

Job description

Fundamental is seeking a founding Product Designer to establish design at Fundamental and shape how users experience our AI-powered platform. You’ll own the design system at the heart of our platform and lead the UX and UI for our platform and agentic products.

This hands-on role offers significant ownership, partnering with Product and Engineering from problem framing through detailed design and implementation to shipping delightful product experiences.