Founding Design Lead

Founding Design Lead

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With AI bots running amok, IRL is emerging as the most important play in the B2B marketer's toolkit. There are thousands of new field marketing and community roles popping up around the country. We're building the world's best way for marketers to book IRL gatherings—the most unique experiences, transparent package pricing, and three-click booking. We already serve 5% of the Fortune 500, have processed $100M+ in events this past year, and recently signed several new distribution partners including  for Business.

Our core enterprise business is now profitable and we're launching a revolutionary new product offering and we need your help.

• Own UX flows, interaction design, and the full UI layer across consumer, enterprise, venue, and admin surfaces. Turn ambiguous concepts into intuitive journeys and elegant interfaces. Partner closely with engineering to ensure every pixel ships beautifully.
• We have a bare-bones design system that needs to be taken to the next level. Build on what exists—don't burn it down and start over. Establish color, typography, visual hierarchy, components, and reusable patterns that enable fast iteration while maintaining cohesion across multiple products and surfaces.
• Talk directly to customers—hosts, planners, enterprise teams, venues. Run lightweight tests. Work with Sales, Marketplace, and Product leadership to understand the business case behind features. Craft designs that drive adoption, clarity, and delight. Influence product strategy through a design-first lens.

• Passion for driving deeper human connection
• Want to join at the ground level with real traction and build a category-defining company

• Strong design instincts and ability to elevate brand and product
• Highly collaborative—you work well with founders, engineers, and cross-functional teams
• Fast executor who maintains craft under pressure
• Strategic thinker who influences product direction through design
• Generalist at zero-to-one—you thrive in ambiguity

• 3–5 years of product design experience in fast-moving tech companies
• Portfolio showing end-to-end ownership—from concept to shipped products
• Strong interaction design skills and ability to simplify complex workflows
• Proficiency in Figma with ability to move fast while maintaining craft
• Ability to create clean, modern, premium-feeling interfaces
• Experience evolving and scaling design systems

• Marketplace or multi-sided platform experience
• Design system experience
• Fluid UI / Motion / Micro-interactions

• Ownership:
  You define product experience and visual identity—not just executing tickets
• Leverage:
  You're designing innovative products that have real impact
• Impact:
  Your design directly shapes whether customers choose us over competitors
• Upside:
  Meaningful early equity in a company with a clear path to major outcome

In-person in Palo Alto, CA

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

Software Development