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Founding Design Engineer

Probook

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