Founding Product Designer — Shape Quippy's iPhone UX

Quippy; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Founding role

YC-backed

Job summary

Quippy, a YC-backed daily practice app, is hiring its first designer to shape how it looks and feels on iPhone, working closely with engineering to ship polished visuals quickly.

You will design end-to-end features, define the conversation screen experience, and help the team grow a cohesive design system with motion and a mascot. This is a full-time role based in San Francisco with remote options.

Qualifications

• Shipped app screens that people use daily.
• Attention to small details: spacing, timing, button copy.
• Able to prototype to answer questions rather than debate.
• Able to explain why a design works and adjust when users show otherwise.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

End-to-end design

Design systems

Prototyping

Communication of design decisions

Tools

Figma

Sketch

InVision

Job description

Quippy, a YC-backed daily practice app, is hiring its first designer to shape how it looks and feels on iPhone, working closely with engineering to ship polished visuals quickly.

You will design end-to-end features, define the conversation screen experience, and help the team grow a cohesive design system with motion and a mascot. This is a full-time role based in San Francisco with remote options.