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Founding Product Designer

Layerbase · Remote, North America · Full⁠-⁠time · $150k to $185k

The role

You will be the first designer at Layerbase, owning the product surface for a retrieval platform used by engineering teams shipping AI features.

  • Own end to end design for the console, from research through shipped interface.
  • Partner directly with the founders on product direction and roadmap.
  • Build and maintain the design system alongside two front-end engineers.

What we look for

We care far more about judgement and shipped work than years on paper.

  • Six or more years designing technical B2B or developer products.
  • Comfortable prototyping in code, or working closely with engineers who do.
  • Experience designing for AI outputs: latency, uncertainty, and correction flows.

Hiring process

Four steps, usually finished inside two weeks.

  • Intro call with the head of product, 30 minutes.
  • Portfolio walkthrough with the founding team, 60 minutes.
  • Paid design exercise, scoped to one day.
  • Final conversation and offer.
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