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"Design is thinking made visual."
— Saul Bass
As the founding product designer, you will own the end-to-end user experience design, mapping complex AI workflows into intuitive interactions. You will also build and maintain a scalable component-based design system and ensure visual consistency across all brand touchpoints.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end user experience design—from problem definition to shipped feature
- Map complex AI workflows for underwriting into intuitive, progressive interactions
- Design product experiences across onboarding, dashboards, workflows, reports, notifications, and more
- Rapidly prototype and test design hypotheses with internal teams and insurance end users
- Define interaction patterns, state logic, edge cases, and UX documentation for engineering handoff
- Build and maintain a scalable component-based design system in Figma
- Design data visualizations, iconography, and interface patterns for clarity, speed, and trust
- Shape the company's visual identity across product, website, presentations, sales enablement, and social
- Own and enforce visual consistency across all digital and physical brand touchpoints
- Create design standards, guidelines, and quality controls for future contributors
- Partner closely with engineering to define specs, implementation flows, and QA feedback loops
- Collaborate with founders and sales on roadmap planning and user story definition
- Establish internal design review, feedback, and documentation workflows
- Define future team processes as we scale: design sprints, critiques, research cadence, etc.
- Guide (and eventually hire/mentor) junior designers, contract contributors, and creative partners
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in UX/UI design, preferably for data-rich, enterprise, or B2B SaaS products
- Portfolio that shows full-stack ownership: user flows, wireframes, polished UIs, and live product screenshots
- Mastery of Figma and modern design systems practices
- Demonstrated success designing interfaces for technical or multi-role users (e.g., dashboards, workflows, analytics, or internal tools)
- Strong UX writing instincts—clear labels, human copy, and helpful guidance throughout workflows
- Experience conducting or leveraging user research and customer feedback to drive design decisions
- Highly comfortable collaborating directly with engineers, founders, and sales
- Comfort designing and managing marketing websites (especially in Webflow or Framer)
- Based in or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area
Key Skills
- UX/UI design
- Figma
- modern design systems practices
- designing interfaces for technical or multi-role users
- UX writing
- user research
- collaboration with engineers, founders, and sales
- designing and managing marketing websites
Benefits
- Competitive compensation + equity stake
- Founding-level ownership and input into product direction
- Comprehensive health benefits and 401(k)
- Significant tools and workspace budget (Figma, Framer, fonts, whatever makes you fast)
- Team off-sites, shared learning budgets, and early-stage creative freedom
About Pear Vc
We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed. The startups we back go far. Best-in-class founders do not come around every day. When they do, we jump at the opportunity to work together. Our approach is to work with just a small number of best-in-class founders so we can dig in and go deep.
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