Agave
Founding Product Designer
San Francisco · Senior
H1B sponsorship availableDetected 18 hours ago
TypeScriptReactTailwind CSSRESTSketchDesign SystemsProject ManagementSalesforceAccountingLogisticsERP
About the role
- tldr: tl;dr: Fresh off a $15M Series A led by Accel (total funding now $20M+), Agave is profitable, growing fast, and scaling the team.
- Although we're early stage, we've eliminated the key strategic risks you'll face at other startups - unproven product, lack of market validation, lack of revenue, over-reliance on VC funding, co-founder disputes.
- The decisions you make in your first six months will shape how thousands of construction teams interact with their critical software for years.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end product experience. Across every product we have today and every product we launch this year, you own how it looks and how it feels to use.
- Build our design system from zero. Tokens, components, patterns, documentation. We have none of this. A controller using three of our products should feel like they're using one tool, not three.
- Design data-dense interfaces. Our users work with thousands of invoices, hundreds of vendors, dozens of jobs, and GL codes that matter to the dollar. You're comfortable making tables, filters, reconciliation flows, and sync states that hold up at scale.
- Partner with cofounders and PMs on what to build. You'll be in the room for all major product decisions, not just the pixel decisions. Your taste and instincts will shape what ships.
- Systems thinking. You've built or meaningfully contributed to a design system for a multi-product platform and can walk through the tradeoffs you made.
- High ownership + conscientiousness. Able to manage many threads at once: multiple products, a design system, etc., without sacrificing quality.
- You'll build our design system from scratch, design across every product we ship this year (2-6 new ones), and work directly with the cofounders, engineers, and PMs to make the Agave platform simple to use.
- Our team is fully in-person, tenacious, and committed - most of us moved to SF from far away (Canada, SoCal, Texas, Virginia) specifically to build Agave from the ground up.
- Most first design hires join companies that are either pre-product (nothing to design for) or post-product (constrained by whatever was built before you).
- We've built Agave in-person since day 1, and will maintain an in-person culture in San Francisco going forward.
Requirements
- Comfort with data-dense, workflow-heavy software.
- You know what good looks like, you can explain why, and you're not precious about any single screen.
Nice to have
- You can ship code.
- React, TypeScript, Tailwind, or equivalent.
- You don't need to be a senior engineer.
- You do need to be able to prototype in code and push small frontend changes yourself.
- Experience designing for blue-collar, back-office, or operations-heavy industries: construction, logistics, manufacturing, field services, trucking, energy, or accounting/ERP software
- Experience as the first or second designer at an early-stage startup: someone who's set up the tooling, the system, and the bar before
- These are large, meaningful rewards that scale with the amount we grow in a particular year.
- Breakfast & Dinner, delivered: breakfast and dinner stipends through DoorDash.
Compensation
- we offer annual performance bonuses when we hit company growth goals, which are a % of your base salary.
- 401k: we match 100% of your contributions, up to 4% of annual salary.
- Performance Bonuses: we offer annual performance bonuses when we hit company growth goals, which are a % of your base salary.
Benefits
- Healthcare: we cover 90% of your healthcare costs with several plan options.
- Relocation: sizable relocation bonus for folks currently located outside of the Bay Area, and a bonus for anyone (even within the Bay Area) who moves within a 15-minute walk of our office.
- Commuter benefits: employees can make pre-tax contributions toward commuting costs, and we'll cover the full cost of a Muni pass for those using public transit.
- Bonus if you can point to specific outcomes your design drove (activation, retention, conversion, reduced support load).
- Gym: on-site gym with Peloton, squat rack, Tempo, Yoga setup, and more.
Company info
- We've spent years building deep, proprietary integrations with every major construction ERP and project management platform.
- We're hiring our first design hire to own the look, feel, and usability of Agave as we go from one product to a platform.
- We are a rare combo of being early stage (high upside) but lower risk (5XX+ paying customers, $Xm+ recurring revenue, profitable & cash-flow positive for over 2 years, hockey-stick growth).
- You'll have a ton of impact, work directly with our customers, and ship real product for real users.
- We're looking for how you think, not pixel perfection.
Visa & Work Authorization
- we sponsor Visas (H1B, TN, etc.) for candidates who are a good fit!
This listing is sourced directly from Agave's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.