Founding Product Designer

Listen Labs • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Listen Labs is an AI-powered research platform that helps teams uncover insights from customer interviews in hours — not months. We help customers analyze conversations, surface themes, and make faster, smarter product decisions. We are hiring a Founding Product Designer to turn complex, week-long consulting projects into elegant, simple experiences powered by AI. If you love rethinking products from the ground up, turning complexity into beauty, and obsessing over every detail, we should talk. The company is product-led, with a world-class team founded by serial entrepreneurs and talent from top tech companies. We are in hypergrowth, growing from $0 to a $10M run-rate in under a year, with enterprise wins at Google, Microsoft, Nestlé, and P&G. Our product has a viral component, with interviews shared widely, fueling PLG and organic expansion.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product design experience, ideally at startups or high-velocity teams.
• Strong visual taste and attention to detail — you sweat the typography, not just the flow.
• Expert in Figma and confident in building/maintaining design systems.
• Strong product sense — you think deeply about tradeoffs, value, and impact.
• Excited to experiment with AI-driven tools and fast prototyping approaches.
• Thrive in close collaboration with founders, engineers, and customers.
• Clear communicator who can articulate design decisions and reasoning.
• Bias toward action — you don’t stop at concepts; you ship.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design across all customer-facing experiences, creating a seamless and intuitive journey from first touch to long-term engagement.
• Define and evolve Listen’s design system, visual language, and component library.
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering to ship thoughtful, high-impact features.
• Prototype ideas rapidly using Figma, AI tools, or whatever communicates the vision best.
• Influence product direction — you’ll shape what we build, not just how it looks.
• Translate complex research workflows into simple, intuitive, and delightful user experiences.
• Bring our brand to life across marketing moments — from launch visuals to merch and social content.
• Balance high design standards with rapid iteration — knowing great work comes from both craft and momentum.
• Champion customer insight in every decision, helping the team focus on what truly matters.
• Build the design foundations — systems, principles, and processes — that will scale as we grow.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages with meaningful equity ownership.
• Comprehensive healthcare and dental coverage.
• Flexible time off to recharge.
• An environment that values balance and trust.
• Opportunity to take on new responsibilities, shape processes from scratch, and grow alongside the company.

What This Job Offers

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