Founding Designer

Why choose Flint?⚡We’re winning - come win with us. Flint in TechCrunch⚡Create a product that feels like magic (watch our ad!)⚡Leadership who’ve been in your shoes - 1st eng at Warp, 2nd eng at Vooma. Read more here: https://flintai.notion.site/founding-designer-sf About FlintFlint is the first autonomous website platform. We’re building a future where sites can observe, reason and act on their own, adapting in real time to the needs and desires of people and AI agents alike. We’ve raised a $5M seed round led by Accel, alongside Neo and Sheryl Sandberg’s fund, to accelerate this vision. Early adopters include Cognition, creator of the first AI software engineer, and Modal, the leading AI compute platform.Customers have used Flint to hit goals like….Ranking #1 on AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI OverviewDriving 50% higher ad conversion rates on Google Ads months ahead of scheduleGenerating hundreds of thousands of dollars in pipeline revenue.The first version of Flint's autonomous website platform produces on-brand landing pages from content briefs and prompts in minutes. Flint ingests a company's existing design system – components, brand guidelines, and visual tokens – then generates fully-coded landing pages that live on the customer’s top-level domain, on a subfolder at URLs like companysite.com/campaign-nameThe RoleWe’re looking for a Founding Designer to join Flint as our first full-time design hire.Very uniquely at Flint, design is the product. It’s not just about designing interfaces. It’s also about designing the design systems the Flint sites rely on - creating a system that at once can reproduce frontends reliably but also one that AI agents can understand. It’s also about incorporating taste into the AI to produce beautiful websites for our customer’s users.This role is hands on and broad - you’ll lead product design (UI/UX), design system our agents use, while also being the internal point of contact who works with our brand agency across our website, pitch decks, social media kits, videos, and physical events.Role scopeShaping how our product looks and feelsLeading UXR sessions, turning user feedback into product feedback seamlesslyDesigning and prototyping brand new featuresReporting directly to the CEO (who currently serves as Voice of the Customer / User), and quickly assuming the mantle of Voice of the Customer / UserWorking closely with the CEO to develop product visionWorking closely with both founders, all engineers, and solutions engineers in weekly sprints to bring our vision to lifeWorking with our brand agency to implement and extend Flint's visual identity across our product and the worldBasic Qualifications3-5 years of professional design experience in product/UI designStrong portfolio demonstrating web product design skillsProficiency with modern design tools (e.g. Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.)An eye for great website design, as you will be guiding the AI to produce beautiful websitesStrong communication and upwards management skillsComfort collaborating closely and directly with execs and engineersExcitement about working full-time, in-person in San FranciscoPreferred QualificationsAbility to create design systems that scaleExperience designing for early-stage startups or small teamsFamiliarity with AI prototyping tools like v0You prefer creating prototypes that demonstrate real user flows to relying on static mockupsComfort extending a brand identityMotion/interaction design skills (e.g. prototyping, animations)Experience running end to end UXR sprints - from scheduling with candidates to leading calls, logging feedback, triaging and escalating.Appetite for wearing multiple hats and contributing beyond design when needed💛 BenefitsExtremely competitive salary + equity package20 PTO days / yearA really beautiful office in Jackson Square, SFDog-friendly 🦮2 rooftops, overlooking iconic views (Transamerica Pyramid, Jackson Square)A shower in the office - great for freshening up before/after workoutsUnconditional invites to SF’s best AI startup eventsWe explicitly encourage our team to grow and extend their networks.