Walker Bowen Talent Partners · 23 hours ago
Founding Product Designer
San Francisco, California, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$265/hr - $265/hr
5+ years expWalker Bowen Talent Partners is seeking a Founding Product Designer with a strong background in product design to lead the design efforts for customer-facing experiences. The role involves creating intuitive user journeys, evolving the design system, and influencing product direction while focusing on user experience and research workflows.
Staffing & Recruiting
Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end design across all customer-facing experiences, creating a seamless and intuitive journey
Define and evolve Listen’s design system, visual language, and component library, collaborating closely with product and engineering
Prototype ideas rapidly using Figma, AI tools, or whatever communicates the vision best
Influence product direction, shaping what we build, not just how it looks
Translate complex research workflows into simple, intuitive, and delightful user experiences, focusing on analysis, insights, incentives, and recruitment
Qualification
Required
5-10 years of experience in product design; at least one year experience in a founding, lead or head of design role
Experience at a high velocity early stage B2B SaaS startup (Seed-Series C)
Clear 0-1 ownership; has designed and shipped net-new products or major product pillars, not just incremental/maintenance work
World-class visual and interaction craft in design
Expert Figma user (systems + rapid prototyping) and excited to experiment with AI tools and fast integration
Extremely strong attention to detail including strong typography, layout, motion/micro-interactions, etc
Experience collaborating with engineer, and accelerate design process
Strong product sense, able to think through trade-offs for users, engineers and impact of long-term product decisions
Ability to work 3-5 days in office in SF
Benefits
Medical, Dental
Paid lunches & dinners
Open to 01/H1B Sponsorships for international candidates
Company
Walker Bowen Talent Partners
We are in the business of making connections and growing startups.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Monica Carter
Senior Partner - Executive Search
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