Founding Product Designer

2d2 days ago

Listen Labs

San Francisco, US · Full-time · $200,000 – $260,000

About this role

Listen Labs is an AI-powered research platform that helps teams uncover insights from customer interviews in hours. We are hiring a Founding Product Designer to turn complex research workflows into elegant, simple experiences powered by AI. The role focuses on rethinking products from the ground up while obsessing over every detail.

You will lead end-to-end design across all customer-facing experiences and define the visual language and component library. Rapid prototyping in Figma and AI tools will help communicate vision quickly. You will translate complex research workflows into intuitive user experiences while balancing craft with rapid iteration.

You will join a 30-person team backed by Sequoia that has grown from $0 to a $10M run-rate in under a year. The world-class team includes talent from Jane Street, Twitter, Stripe, and other Sequoia-backed startups. Enterprise customers include Google, Microsoft, Nestlé, and P&G.

This is an opportunity to shape product direction and build the design foundations that will scale with hypergrowth. You will influence what gets built, not just how it looks, while bringing the brand to life across marketing moments.

Requirements

5+ years of product design experience, ideally at startups or high-velocity teams.
Strong visual taste and attention to detail with deep care for typography and craft.
Expert in Figma and confident in building and maintaining design systems.
Strong product sense with the ability to think deeply about tradeoffs, value, and impact.
Excited to experiment with AI-driven tools and fast prototyping approaches.
Thrive in close collaboration with founders, engineers, and customers.
Clear communicator who can articulate design decisions and reasoning.
Bias toward action with a track record of shipping rather than stopping at concepts.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end design across all customer-facing experiences, creating a seamless journey from first touch to long-term engagement.
Define and evolve the design system, visual language, and component library.
Prototype ideas rapidly using Figma, AI tools, or whatever communicates the vision best.
Influence product direction by shaping what gets built, not just how it looks.
Translate complex research workflows into simple, intuitive, and delightful user experiences.
Bring the brand to life across marketing moments from launch visuals to social content.
Build the design foundations, systems, principles, and processes that will scale as the company grows.