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# Founding Designer PM (Product / UI / UX)

- **Company:** CLERA, LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Design of User Interfaces, Next.js, React Native, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2d0d9c4d6704fdf5

## About the Role

Must-haves (dealbreakers):

 * End-to-end product design experience for software products - from user research all the way to final UI handoff.
 * A strong, demonstrable portfolio of product UI/UX design for software products.

Required skills:

 * Proven experience designing and maintaining a design system with reusable components.
 * Familiarity with modern frontend tech stacks (e.g., Next.js, React Native) sufficient to inform design decisions and collaborate tightly with engineers.

Strong nice-to-haves:

 * Strong user research and discovery skills - comfortable interviewing users and synthesizing findings into flows and requirements.
 * Excellent communication and storytelling skills for presenting design decisions to stakeholders.
 * Cross-functional collaborator who works effectively with engineers, data scientists, and leadership.
 * Ownership mindset with a high tolerance for ambiguity - you thrive in early-stage environments where the playbook doesn't exist yet.

You'll be a great fit if you:

 * Move fast with prototypes, mocks, and iterations - daily.
 * Think commercially: you design what people will actually pay for, not just what looks cool.
 * Are organized, opinionated, and comfortable owning the entire design practice solo.
 * Can communicate clearly and work in-person with a high-velocity team.

## Description

A fast-moving, pre-seed Applied AI startup in San Francisco is hiring a Founding Designer PM to own the entire product design practice - from discovery through delivery. This is a rare hybrid role: you'll be the central product brain, sitting at the intersection of users, founders, engineers, and data, shaping a calm, cinematic design experience that reaches a massive audience. You'll establish the design system, influence what ships every week, and carry meaningful PM responsibilities alongside your craft., * Design the full end-to-end product experience: content creation interview/input publish.

 * Build a clean, scalable design system and reusable component library from scratch.
 * Talk to users constantly and translate qualitative and quantitative insights into concrete product decisions.
 * Work hand-in-hand with engineering and founders to define scope, flows, and requirements - and ship weekly.
 * Take on PM responsibilities: write specs, define requirements, prioritize ruthlessly, and keep the team aligned.


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