Founding Design Engineer
Probook
- Manhattan, United States
- On-site
- Mid Level
- Posted
Responsibilities
- Own UI/UX quality across all three surfaces, end to end
- Ship production frontend changes yourself — design through merge
Establish Probook's visual and interaction language from scratch
- Sit in on customer calls, watch operators work, and turn what you see into things that ship
- Partner with engineers from spec to ship, and with the founders on product direction
- Use Claude Code, Cursor, and similar to go from problem to multiple working flows in a day
The role
- You are our first designer. You own how Probook looks, feels, and works across the web app, mobile, and Chrome extension, and you ship the frontend yourself.
- That second part is not a stretch goal. Most of what you design, you will build and merge. If your process ends at a Figma handoff, this is not the role.
- The software this industry runs on looks like it was designed in 2008. For a lot of our operators, Probook is the best-designed product they use at work. You set that bar from here.
Required
- 4–6 years of product design experience, ideally 2+ years at startups
- A track record of merging your own frontend code to production. We will ask for specifics and look at the work.
- B2B or ops-heavy product background.
- Strong portfolio of shipped product work
- Turnaround in hours, not weeks, without dropping quality
What separates the top of the pool
- Taste you can't switch off - you see the typographic inconsistency and you fix it
- You can explain why a decision is right, not just show the artifact
- You explore the problem properly before converging, then converge fast
- You pick the important flow over the interesting one without being told
You get dangerous on incomplete context quickly
You're getting better at this on your own time
Compensation
$180K–$230K base, meaningful early-stage equity
Medical, dental, vision
- $500/month Ramp card, $25 nightly dinner credit
- In-office five days a week in Manhattan
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