Founding Product Designer

Job description

At **Sentra** we embarked on an exciting journey to build a one-of-a-kind company memory to help growing startups overcome scaling challenges. At [Sentra](https://www.sentra.app/app/memory), we've developed a true AI teammate that understands an organization's context, goals, and culture - offering both ICs and leaders unprecedented transparency into what's happening across the company and strategic alignment. Sentra is backed by **a16z** and **Together Fund**, working with leaders from the top tech companies in the valley. Our goal? To never let a company lose itself as it gets bigger. **What you'll do:** - Work directly with CEO on overall strategy and decision-making about product direction - Work with the product team to take **ambiguous** product ideas and turn them into **clear** requirements, flows, interactions, and design interfaces. - Create flows, interactions, and designs for **multi-surface** products: desktop app, web dashboard, notifications, AI outputs, etc. - Rapidly prototype ideas (**Figma**, interactive mocks) to test with customers - Create and iterate on flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals, as well as provide **thoughtful feedback** for others doing the same so you can all do your best work - Collaborate with engineers to ensure designs are buildable, performant, and scalable - Create reusable components, patterns, and documentation as the product scales - Collaboratively define metrics and data points to collect and measure design effectiveness - Run lightweight user research, usability tests, and feedback loops with real operators - Help deliver and refine clear storytelling around product needs and opportunities - Contribute to our design org’s culture by participating in design critiques, mentoring peers, and sharing best practices across teams **We’d love to hear from you if you have:** - **3+ years** of work or equivalent experience designing UX and UI for a software product of similar scale and complexity - Great **attention to detail** and a strong eye for **visual craft**, such as composition, typography, and layout of modern AI products - Fluency in interaction design and prototyping in **Figma** and related tools, to express and refine nuanced design decisions - A track record of independently driving design processes from **discovery through launch**—balancing user needs, technical constraints, and business goals - The ability to guide decision-making with structured thinking, clearly articulated rationale, and user-centered research - Experience with data-driven decision making in the design process, defining metrics and data points to evaluate and measure design effectiveness **While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:** - Experience designing information tools, workflows, or systems that support company operations - Experience researching, prototyping, or building products with AI and other emerging tools to uncover new patterns for agentic experiences - Experience with consumer applications **What we offer:** - Competitive salary and equity - Free meals on in-office days - UberEats credits - Health insurance coverage (medical, dental, and vision) - Equinox and other fitness/wellness memberships - Transportation stipend - Flexible time off