Founding Designer

August • New York City, NY

25d

About The Position

At August , we’re building AI designed for one thing: helping law firms practice better. Unlike tools built for the AmLaw 100, our focus is on midsized firms — where efficiency, client service, and competitive advantage matter most. Our platform helps lawyers draft, review, and analyze documents at scale, turning what used to take hours into minutes. We’re trusted by forward-thinking firms across the U.S., Australia, and Asia, and backed by leading investors (NEA, Pear VC, Stanford Law) to grow globally. We move quickly, learn directly from clients, and believe that AI is transforming the practice of law. The Opportunity August is building AGI for law. Our agents mimic a lawyers’ reasoning, research, and drafting, and our workflows already outperform lawyers in third-party evaluations. We’re targeting mid-market law firms, automating their legal work and allowing them to provide our tools directly to their clients. Join August at an early stage as we scale our agents to process thousands of documents simultaneously and create outputs exceeding human-level accuracy. As a Founding Designer at August, you’ll own the design function end-to-end—shaping the product experience, refining our brand identity, and setting the design culture. You’ll work closely with the founders, engineers, and legal experts to craft intuitive interfaces for complex AI workflows and create a brand that resonates with law firms worldwide

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional design experience (product, brand, or both).
• Strong portfolio showcasing polished product design and/or brand systems.
• Proficiency with modern design tools (Figma or equivalent) and comfort with rapid iteration.
• Ability to design elegant solutions for complex workflows.
• Comfortable working at an early stage company with ownership and autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Lead design for product and brand—owning UI/UX, visual identity, and marketing materials.
• Translate complex legal AI workflows into simple, intuitive user experiences.
• Partner with engineers to prototype, test, and ship AI-native interfaces at speed.
• Develop a consistent visual language across product, website, and external communications.
• Help build the foundation of August’s design culture, processes, and standards.

Benefits

• Founding Impact: Shape not just your role but the company.
• Uncapped Upside: Competitive base + commission, early equity ownership.
• Top-tier Team: Work alongside people who move fast, think clearly, and care deeply.
• Category-Defining Work: Help build the first true AI agents for the legal profession.
• Fast Growth: Scale your career as we scale the company.
• Exceptional Early Traction : >4x revenue growth in the past four months.
• Global Reach: Our clients span 4 continents and use August in multiple languages and jurisdictions
• Frontier of Applied AI: August has access to proprietary data inaccessible to foundation model providers. We build agents to automate all challenging knowledge work.
• Strategic investors : Backed by NEA and exceptional seed investors Pear VC and Afore Capital, August has the capital to execute

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed