What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Designer Job at Menlo Ventures in San Francisco position at Menlo Ventures?
This is an opportunity with a new AI-forward portfolio company of Menlo Ventures, currently in stealth.
About the company
We're on a mission to make data intelligent, beautiful, and accessible to everyone. Our founding team and design advisor-all ex-Apple-obsess about user experience and have built products that millions love. We're pre-seed funded with deep Silicon Valley roots, backed by tier-1 investors.
The opportunity
As our first designer, you'll work closely with the founders and our design advisor to define how humans collaborate with AI. You'll own the entire design process for our core AI data experiences, craft our design language, shape our brand identity, and influence every user touchpoint-from product to marketing. We are also open to expanding this into a Design Engineer role if skillset and interests align.
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end product design, taking concepts from ideas to pixel-perfect interfaces
- Define human-AI interaction patterns to make data exploration feel natural and empowering
- Build scalable design systems that streamline workflows and maintain a high-quality user experience as we grow
- Shape our brand identity, ensuring a cohesive visual language across product UI, website, and marketing
- Initially own frontend implementation in Next.js and Tailwind, drafting our component system until we expand the engineering team
- We're open to flexing this into a Founding Design Engineer for the right person.
What you bring
1, both in terms of product and design environment (pure startup vs. new work within existing company) strongly preferred
Why join us
Compensation and Benefits
If you're ready to define a new category of data intelligence where AI and humans collaborate seamlessly-let's talk. >
125,000 - $200,000 a year
Salary : $125,000 - $200,000
