Founding Designer

Urban Ridge Supplies • New York, NY

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Spur is an AI-powered QA platform that lets teams test websites using natural language. Its AI agents act like real users to automate end-to-end testing without traditional QA infrastructure. Spur is an early-stage company founded by two Yale alumni and backed by First Round Capital, Neo, Pear VC, Conviction, and Y Combinator. The company serves customers including Wander.com, Living Spaces, and Nextdoor.

Design is foundational to Spur’s product. The Founding Designer will help redefine how software testing feels by creating trustworthy, intuitive, and powerful experiences for users across engineering, product, support, and sales. AI is integrated throughout test creation, editing, execution, and reporting, and the role will shape seamless workflows that build user confidence.

The designer will own product design from ideation through launch, establish Spur’s visual identity and design system, and work closely with engineering and product to influence the roadmap. The role also contributes to the company’s public voice, marketing presence, go-to-market assets, and community activities. There is potential to build and lead the design team as Spur grows. This is an in-person role at Spur’s New York City office, and the company describes the environment as fast-moving and demanding.

Requirements

• Experience shipping complex, high-quality products; ideally, at least 2 years designing for technical or operations-heavy users.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and bring structure to undefined problems.
• Ability to move quickly while maintaining craft and polish.
• High personal standards, initiative, and care for quality.
• Willingness to take ownership of problems and work hands-on to solve them.
• Excitement about working hard and moving quickly at an early-stage company.
• Ability to work in person at Spur’s New York City office.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience founding a company or building products at an early stage.
• Ambition and drive, with a commitment to doing excellent work with talented colleagues.
• Passion for machine learning and AI and their potential in product design.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product design, from early ideation through polished, shipped experiences.
• Create Spur’s visual identity, including its brand, design system, and style guidelines.
• Design new user workflows that make complex systems feel fast, intuitive, and powerful.
• Promote a company-wide culture of craft, design quality, and attention to detail.
• Work closely with engineering and product to shape the roadmap through a design lens.
• Help define Spur’s voice and presence across the product, marketing, and other public-facing channels.
• Potentially build and lead the design team, including hiring and shaping team culture.
• Shape Spur’s public design voice through thought leadership, events, talks, and writing.
• Collaborate on go-to-market work, including assets, launch moments, and social content.
• Host design gatherings and represent Spur at industry events and conferences.

Benefits

• Daily lunch and office snacks, with employees able to help choose them.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage options, with flexibility to suit individual needs.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• Spur swag.

What This Job Offers

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