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Founding Designer

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San Francisco, CA, USA
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San Francisco, CA, USA
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Own the company’s design language and strategy across product, marketing, communications, and internal tools. Partner with customers and engineers to translate complex workflows into trusted AI agent behavior and product experiences. Define onboarding and customer communication, establish a high quality bar, and contribute beyond design to product, customer strategy, and company direction. The role is highly hands-on, supports shipping to production, and is based in person in San Francisco.
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We're building the AI workforce for the physical economy — AI agents that replace the manual coordination layer running on emails, spreadsheets, TMS, ERP, and phone calls at companies that move, make, and deliver physical things. Our agents handle complex multi-day workflows, learn from feedback, and reach 90%+ autonomous execution in production.

 

Our founder Obaid Khan co-founded Motive — scaled it to $350M+ in revenue and a $5B+ valuation. We're going after the next big problem in the same market. Early team but we have multiple customers including Fortune 500. We move fast and hold a high bar.

 

Join us and build the core agent platform that automates complex operational workflows across the physical economy. You'll work across the stack — from AI agent orchestration to the product surfaces customers interact with daily.

 

What You'll Do

  • Define and own our design language/strategy end-to-end: product, marketing, customer communications, internal tools.

  • Shape the product itself, not just its surface. You'll sit with customers, understand what they actually do all day, and compress it into agent behavior alongside engineering.

  • Define how we onboard customers, how we communicate with them, and how the product earns their trust over months of use.

  • Set the quality bar. Early decisions compound — great companies are built on great taste.

  • Exceptional visual craft and obsession over the fine details.

     

What We're Looking For

  • Consumer product design experience. You've shipped products people love using.

  • A track record of driving large, ambiguous projects to done — not completing tickets inside someone else's design.

  • Strong product instincts. You can tell when something is 95% there and still wrong, and you push until it's right.

  • Hunger to operate beyond design — into product, customer, strategy. You want massive ownership on an early team and are energized by the ambiguity that comes with it.

 

How We Work

  • Designers will ship to production here. We'll set you up with the coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, whatever works) to make that real.

  • You'll help define the toolset you need to do the job.

  • Small team, high trust, low process. Direct access to founders and customers. In-person in SF.

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