Founding Designer
Pathos
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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About the role
- Lead the design of a new mobile app from scratch, creating beautiful visuals, intuitive interactions, and innovative UX for our flagship product.
- Build a comprehensive, future-proof design system, with accessibility, internationalization, and modularity in mind.
- Collaborate with engineers and product leadership to prioritize the roadmap and scope new features.
- Apply a strong user-centered approach to research and design, translating real user needs into clear, actionable product direction.
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate ideation while producing human-centered, polished designs that align with the Pathos brand.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a product designer, preferably in consumer mobile products.
- Expert proficiency in Figma, with strong skills across UX, visual design, typography, iconography, and animation. Nice to have: marketing design experience.
- Strong visual communication and design thinking.
- Good at understanding users and using research to guide decisions.
- Comfortable working in a small, fast-moving startup team, managing multiple projects, and meeting deadlines.
- Understands current and emerging AI trends and can use them to create practical, user-centered designs.
Benefits
- Health and dental benefits
- On-site parking
- Public transportation reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product designUX designvisual designtypographyiconographyanimationdesign thinkinguser researchAI toolsdesign system
Soft Skills
visual communicationuser-centered approachcollaborationproject managementdeadline management