Founding Designer

Layer • San Francisco, CA

2d

About The Position

As our Founding Product Designer, you’ll own design for Layer’s embedded accounting products and help evolve our visual brand as we scale. You’ll set design strategy and own workstreams end to end across: product UX, interaction quality, design systems, and how our products show up inside our customers’ platforms. This role will partner directly with the CEO and collaborate closely with engineering to ship quickly, sweat details, and build remarkable experiences.
You will:

Requirements

• Excellent visual design craft and taste. You design elegant experiences that delight end users and hold a high bar for visual polish.
• Systems thinking. You naturally design reusable patterns and can evolve a design system without slowing shipping velocity.
• Deep Figma fluency. You live and breathe Figma. Components, variants, auto layout, etc. are all second nature.
• Customer empathy & domain curiosity. You’re excited to dive into the world of accounting/bookkeeping and build deep empathy for both our platform customers and their SMB end-users.
• Exceptional communication skills. You collaborate closely with engineers and feel comfortable explaining tradeoffs to customers.

Nice To Haves

• Have 5+ years of product design experience
• Have been a first or early designer at an early-stage startup (or equivalent high-ownership experience)
• Have designed SaaS or Fintech products used by SMBs
• Designed brands and public websites from the ground up

Responsibilities

• Own product design from concept to launch. Lead discovery, flows, IA, interaction design, and high-fidelity UI across Layer’s embedded accounting and bookkeeping experiences.
• Design for our embedded model. Create patterns that are intuitive for SMB end users while remaining flexible enough to match the look of our platform customers’ products.
• Evolve our design system. Expand and maintain Layer’s component library and guidelines in close partnership with engineering.
• Work directly with our customers. Help our customers implement onboarding and marketing best practices surrounding our embedded UIs to launch successful accounting & bookkeeping products to their SMBs.
• Own our website. Create visually striking web experiences that showcase our product and brand narrative.
• Craft Marketing Visuals. Create engaging visual content for marketing launches and case studies.
• Drive Branding. Ensure Layer’s brand remains visually compelling and competitive.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees