Founding Designer
This job is for (Lamini- https://lamini.ai/), posted via Parallel. This is a full-time role.
About you
We are looking for a founding designer who’s excited to reinvent interaction with AI and enable the next generation of software powered by AI—we can teach you the AI, as we’ve taught over 100k people around the world.
You’ll be working directly with the founders and the frontend engineering team, influencing the product direction, and playing a key role in leadership discussions.
Most of all, we’re looking for someone who is eager to iterate fast on new interfaces, craves ambiguity and lack of process, and is hungry to invent the new landscape of AI.
Qualifications
Skills: You have high-quality product, visual, interaction design and details. You have a track record of making both beautiful and usable designs.
Collaborative: You like working collaboratively with a high degree of interaction with an in-person team, rather than on your own or remotely. You really enjoy whiteboarding and ideating together with non-design team members with rapid and continuous feedback.
Loves lack of process: You like the lack of structure and the lack of processes. This environment is optimized for enabling you to move fast and think creatively.
Loves ambiguity: Early-stage startups have a lot of uncertainty in priorities and day-to-day work. You’ll go in circles, throw out designs, revive old designs — all the time. Requirements change rapidly and you like to participate in (re)formulating them. We’re building something entirely new and this ambiguity really excites you.
Loves feedback: You like to both give and receive a lot of feedback. You love the challenge and rise up to it. You want to be the key decision maker (bypass official processes like sign-offs) on what feedback is important, in order to move quickly.
Loves fast pace: Fast iteration, every half hour or hour, not days or weeks or months. You like getting to “good enough”, over striving for perfection.
Loves to think out of the box: We need people who are a bit different, who break the norm, because those are the most creative people we’ve worked with who can invent new user experiences.
Have empathy for software engineers (user persona)
Previously worked at an early-stage (seed or Series A) startup or another fast-paced, unstructured environment.
Inclusivity matters to us. Does it to you? Having a desire to work in an inclusive and collaborative environment is important to us.
We love learning and teaching! So, an interest in learning from others, teaching others, and not being scared to dig into new challenges is a huge plus.
We believe in hiring passionate individuals who believe in the AI revolution to make software accessible to all. If you’re excited about this role but are not sure if your past experience aligns perfectly, we still encourage you to apply and meet with us. Many of us have been hired to roles where we didn’t meet the qualifications fully, so we’ve lived it and mean it.
Comp expectations:
Our philosophy is to pay above the average for a startup at our stage, but not way over the usual distribution, because we ultimately want someone here who likes the work, the work environment, and believes in the mission of the company, not just doing it for the money. Because that’s why the rest of us are here.
This is an in person role in Palo Alto, CA
At PowerML, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. PowerML believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
