Founding Product Designer — AI Security & Design System

Alkonos; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Wakefield is an applied research lab focused on AI-native security services. You will own how all of it looks and feels—from the console to the design system, reports, and the Wakefield brand and website.

As our first designer, you’ll shape the user experience, design system, and visual language, collaborating with engineers and researchers to deliver clear, compelling product insights for security stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio of shipped product work with precise visual and interaction craft.
• Experience at a fast-growing startup.
• Built design from scratch: a design system, a brand, or both.
• Shipped with engineers to real users and kept iterating after launch.
• You make complex, dense systems simple without hiding what matters.
• You use AI tools every day to prototype and ship, and still own every detail.
• You design for fun because you genuinely care about the craft.

Responsibilities

• Proof that anyone can follow: a recording, the requests and a fix, in one view.
• Following agents at work: what they're doing, why, and what they'll try next.
• Reports a CISO hands to a board, and briefings for leaders who aren't technical.
• Trust and control: scope, approvals, and stopping a scan at once.
• One design system across the console and the website.
• The Wakefield brand: identity, website and motion.

Skills

Strong portfolio

Startup experience

Design system

Engineering collaboration

Complex systems

AI prototyping

Craft focus

Job description

Wakefield is an applied research lab focused on AI-native security services. You will own how all of it looks and feels—from the console to the design system, reports, and the Wakefield brand and website.

As our first designer, you’ll shape the user experience, design system, and visual language, collaborating with engineers and researchers to deliver clear, compelling product insights for security stakeholders.