Founding Product Designer & Product Manager

At Peak, we're redefining reservations. We don't see reservations as placeholders for a day and time — we see them as tickets to unique experiences.

Created in partnership with The Parker Palm Springs, a Leading Hotel of the World, Peak is built by hospitality experts for hospitality experts. We're a small, remote team of ~10 based in NYC, and we're bringing the Peak experience to one of the top dining scenes in the country.

We're looking for a Founding Product Designer to shape how restaurants and diners experience Peak.

Reservation platforms have looked the same for a decade. Grid views. Time slots. Confirmation emails. We think there's a better way — one that treats a reservation like what it actually is: the beginning of an experience.

This is a product design role in the truest sense. You won't just be pushing pixels — you'll be talking to users, scoping features with engineering, and making real trade-offs about what we build and how. You'll be the design partner to our founder, helping translate vision into product while bringing exceptional craft to everything we ship.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with the founder on product direction — you'll have real input, while understanding that the founder drives final decisions.

• Create production-ready designs in Figma with a systematized approach (components, design tokens, documentation).

• Work closely with engineering to scope features, cut scope when needed, and make smart trade-offs.

• Ship across responsive web and mobile interfaces.

• Rigorously define the problem with our customers. What slice of the opportunity are we going after? Where are we today, and what will be different when we're done?

• Investigate paths, question assumptions, and define boundaries. Every problem has infinite solutions; we pick one by challenging words like "need," "must," and "can't."

This is a hands‑on role. We're not looking for someone to manage a team — we need a designer who thinks like a product owner and loves doing the work.

• Have 8+ years of experience in product design, with a portfolio that demonstrates range, depth, and real product thinking.

• Have worked at companies known for design excellence — Apple, Google, Airbnb, Stripe, Square, Linear, Figma, or similar.

• Operate as a product designer, not just a visual designer — you're comfortable talking to users, running research, and making scope calls.

• Are a Figma expert — you think in components, auto-layout, and design tokens.

• Have experience designing for consumer products where craft and delight matter.

• Know how to partner with engineering: you understand technical constraints and can have real conversations about trade-offs.

• Are comfortable with a founder who has strong opinions and wants to be deeply involved in product decisions.

• Communicate clearly and work well async — we're remote and move fast.

• Bonus: experience in hospitality, restaurants, or booking/marketplace products.

• Product thinking
  . Do you frame problems well? Can you articulate why you made the decisions you made?

• Interaction design quality
  . Do your flows feel intuitive? Do transitions and micro‑interactions elevate the experience?

• Visual craft
  . Is your typography, spacing, and color usage precise and intentional?

• Systems thinking
  . Have you built or contributed to design systems? Can you balance consistency with flexibility?

• Real shipping work
  . We value production experience over speculative concepts.

• Real product, real users. Peak is live with restaurant partners. Your designs will make impact day 1.

• High craft, small team. You'll have an outsized impact on how the product looks and feels.

• Flexibility. Remote, async-friendly. We care about output, not hours logged.

• Interesting problem space. Hospitality is ripe for better design. Most reservation tools feel like enterprise software — we're building something people actually enjoy using.

$225,000 – $275,000 base salary + equity

We're paying at the top of the market for startups because we want top‑tier talent. You'll also receive meaningful equity. We want you to own a real piece of what we're building.

We review every application personally. No recruiters, no AI screening — just us.