Town East Mall
Product Designer
San Francisco · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 44 days ago
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About the role
- You'll be an early product designer at Town, working closely with our CPO and current designer to take real ownership of core product surfaces.
- With AI in the loop there's no fixed playbook - some problems need you to step back and think from first principles, others just need you to iterate live in code and execute.
- This is a high-ownership, high-craft role for someone who is energized by ambiguity, ships constantly, and cares about the last 5% as much as the first 80%.
Responsibilities
- Own surfaces end-to-end.
- Take core product areas - think People, Content Library, permissions and approvals, onboarding, agent and routine experiences - from problem definition through high-fidelity design to shipped code.
- Design the interaction paradigms for AI. Translate genuinely complex capabilities - agents acting on a user's behalf, multi-step routines, approvals, trust and control - into interfaces people understand and trust at a glance. Much of this has no precedent
- Build, don't just spec.
- Pair tightly with engineering, product, and the founders. We're small enough that you'll work directly with the CEO, CPO, and the engineers who own each surface. Influence here comes from good work and good arguments, not headcount.
- Grow the design system. Help evolve a shared, opinionated system (we sweat OkLCH color, motion, and the details) so the whole product feels considered and consistent.
- The ability (and appetite) to prototype and ship in code - HTML/CSS/JS and AI-assisted coding tools. Designers who build are how we move at our speed.
- Fluency in Figma and modern design workflows.
Requirements
- Roughly 6+ years designing and shipping software, ideally in fast-moving startups, B2B/SaaS, productivity, or technical/developer tools.
- Comfort owning a problem from ambiguous start to shipped finish, in an environment that moves fast and changes often.
Nice to have
- Experience designing AI-native or agent-based products.
- Prior "first or second designer" experience at an early-stage company.
- Small team, flat structure, very little process.
- High trust, high autonomy, high standards.
- We ship fast and frequently, then sweat the details until they're right.
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