What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Product Designer In Office (Brooklyn, NY) position at S27a?
AboutFLORA is an applied AI HCI company building the world’s most powerful creative tools. FLORA combines all of the best creative AI models in one Figma-like infinite canvas. Models can be linked together for moodboarding, concepting, or to create and automate entire creative workflows.We’re proudly backed by a16z Games , Long Journey Ventures (SpaceX, Niantic), Menlo Ventures (Uber, Anthropic), Comma Capital , Matthew Hartman (Huggingface), Coho Deeptech , Embedding VC , Vipul Prakash (CEO of Together AI), and angels from Facebook AI Research Lab, Midjourney, Notion, Stability and more.Our TeamWe are a small and passionate team of artists, designers, engineers, and creatives dedicated to revolutionizing the way creatives interact with AI.Role InformationAs our Staff Product Designer , you’ll be working directly with Ethan, our Founding Designer, and Weber, our CEO to craft exceptional user experiences, scale our design systems, and establish a strong design culture from the ground up. This is a high-ownership role where you’ll help shape both product and brand , influencing everything from UI / UX and visual design to strategy and process .What You’ll Do
- Partner closely with Ethan (Founding Designer) & Weber (CEO) to evolve and scale our design vision
- Own the end-to-end design process from research and wireframing to high-fidelity execution and prototypes
- Conduct research into the latest trends and technologies across the AI landscape
- Conduct user testing, interviews, and analysis
- Contribute to and expand our design system , ensuring consistency and scalability
- Collaborate daily with engineering and product teams to bring ideas to life
- Advocate for user needs through research, testing, and iteration
- Help shape our brand identity and visual storytelling across all touchpoints
- Establish best practices and mentor future team members as we growWhat We’re Looking For
- 5 years of experience in UI / UX, product design, or a related role
- A strong portfolio showcasing systems thinking, interaction design, and visual craft
- Experience designing innovative interfaces and creating novel interactions for emerging technologies
- Experience with Figma, Framer or similar prototyping tools, and design systems
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving, startup environment with high autonomy
- Strong collaboration skills —you love bouncing ideas, giving / receiving feedback, and refining designs together
- A passion for simplicity, usability, and making complex ideas feel intuitive
- Bonus) Experience with motion design, branding, and front-end technologies (HTML / CSS / JS, etc.)Why Join Us?
- Help build and shape the future of design at FLORA
- Take ownership over product and brand design in an early-stage startup
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
- A culture that values autonomy, creativity, and craft#J-18808-Ljbffr
