Founding Product Designer

Founding Product Designer | Onsite | San FranciscoBerkley Hunt is partnering with an early-stage AI infrastructure company building workflow automation tools for highly technical engineering environments. Their platform integrates into complex engineering and operational systems, helping teams automate workflows across design, simulation, and enterprise processes.This is a genuinely difficult product and design challenge. The team is building AI-native tooling for technical users operating in complex environments, where trust, observability, approvals, and workflow clarity matter just as much as the underlying technology.They're now hiring their first design hire to define the product experience from the ground up.What You'll DoOwn product design across the core platform and user experienceDesign complex workflow systems for highly technical usersDefine interaction patterns for AI-assisted workflows, approvals, observability, and recovery flowsWork closely with engineering and leadership on product direction and UX strategyBuild and evolve the company's design systems and overall product languageTranslate highly technical functionality into intuitive product experiencesHelp shape product decisions in a fast-moving 0-1 environmentWhat We're Looking ForStrong product design experience across complex B2B or technical software productsExperience designing workflow-heavy enterprise platforms, developer tools, infrastructure products, or industrial softwareAbility to simplify complex systems into intuitive user experiencesExperience working closely with engineering teams in startup environmentsComfortable operating with high ownership as a first or early design hireStrong systems thinking and end-to-end product ownershipBonusExperience with AI products or agentic workflowsExperience working on desktop applications or technical platformsBackground in CAD, simulation, manufacturing, infrastructure, or engineering-focused softwareExperience building products for highly technical usersBenefitsCompetitive base salary + meaningful equityHigh ownership and direct impact on product directionOpportunity to define design within a category-defining AI productSmall, highly technical team with strong product and engineering talent

Created: 2026-05-16