Founding Product Designer - AI Startup (4-7% Equity)

Generative; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Generative is hiring a Founding Product Designer to work directly with the founder and shape how businesses interact with AI agents. The role is in New York or San Francisco, in person, with the potential to set the design direction as the company grows.

You’ll own the product experience from discovery to shipped product, collaborating with founding engineers and customers to simplify complex workflows, define interaction patterns, and build an intuitive, thoughtful interface.

Qualifications

• Portfolio demonstrating strong product judgment, interaction design and visual craft.
• Experience taking ambiguous problems to shipped product.
• Ability to simplify complex workflows and explain design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the founder and customers to understand business operations.
• Design how users assign work to agents, monitor progress and stay in control.
• Develop interaction patterns and choose interfaces for each task.
• Take ideas through user flows, prototypes and detailed product design with founding engineers.
• Set the design direction and lead the design team as the company grows.

Skills

Product design

Interaction design

Visual craft

Portfolio

Job description

Generative is hiring a Founding Product Designer to work directly with the founder and shape how businesses interact with AI agents. The role is in New York or San Francisco, in person, with the potential to set the design direction as the company grows.

You’ll own the product experience from discovery to shipped product, collaborating with founding engineers and customers to simplify complex workflows, define interaction patterns, and build an intuitive, thoughtful interface.