Founding Designer

emergence-capital-partnersยท Portfolio Companies
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About this role

About the Role

We're designing the interfaces for a new generation of AI products. You'll shape how users interact with complex systems โ€“ making powerful technology feel simple, intuitive, and trustworthy.

Designing for AI presents unique challenges: How do you help users understand what the AI is doing? How do you build trust when outputs are probabilistic? How do you create workflows that leverage AI capabilities without overwhelming users? You'll be solving these problems daily, defining interaction patterns that don't exist yet.

This is a high-ownership role. You'll be the design voice in the room, working directly with founders, engineers, and customers to define what we build. You should be comfortable with ambiguity, excited by constraints, and motivated by shipping products that real people use.

What You'll Do

  • Own product design end-to-end: user research, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design

  • Define interaction patterns for AI-native workflows, surfacing AI capabilities, handling uncertainty, and building user trust

  • Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that communicate product vision clearly

  • Conduct user research โ€“ interviews, usability testing, data analysis and translate insights into product decisions

  • Build and maintain design systems that enable consistent, high-quality UI across the product

  • Work closely with engineers through implementation, ensuring design quality in the final product

  • Define a clear UX vision and strategy for how enterprise users interact with AI-powered workflows, balancing innovation with usability

  • Contribute to product strategy and roadmap discussions as a key voice in what we build

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of product design experience, with a portfolio demonstrating taste and end-to-end product design work

  • Experience designing complex workflows, data-heavy applications, or enterprise software

  • Strong proficiency in Figma and other AI tools, including rapid prototyping/wireframing and design systems

  • Solid understanding of interaction design principles and ability to create intuitive user experiences

  • Experience conducting user research and translating findings into actionable design decisions

  • Excellent visual design skills with attention to typography, color, spacing, and hierarchy

  • Have owned design systems and shipped features, not just concepts

  • Strong communication skills, ability to articulate design rationale and collaborate effectively with engineers and PMs

  • Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration in a fast-moving startup environment

Nice to Have

  • Experience designing AI-powered products or features

  • Background in designing B2B or enterprise applications

  • Experience at an early-stage startup or designing 0โ†’1 products that will serve massive deployments to large enterprises

  • Familiarity with front-end development (HTML, CSS, React) to facilitate engineer collaboration

  • Domain expertise in financial services, legal, healthcare, or other enterprise verticals

  • Experience building and scaling design systems from scratch and have scaled it across multiple surfaces (app, web, and brand)

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Where is the Founding Designer position at emergence-capital-partners located?
This Founding Designer role at emergence-capital-partners is based in San Francisco. The position is listed as on-site or hybrid. Check the full job description or apply directly to confirm the work arrangement.
Is the Founding Designer role at emergence-capital-partners full-time or part-time?
This is listed as a FullTime position. It is posted as a Founding Designer role in the Portfolio Companies department at emergence-capital-partners.
Which team or department does the Founding Designer at emergence-capital-partners belong to?
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When was the Founding Designer job at emergence-capital-partners posted?
This Founding Designer position at emergence-capital-partners was posted on Dec 22, 2025. Apply as soon as possible โ€” early applications are often reviewed first.
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