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Founding Designer

Vapi Ai
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/31/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/30/2025

Company Overview

Apple Intelligence and Google Gemini are about to onboard 4 billion people to voice assistants that actually talk like people. This marks a new beginning for voice as the world’s default interface. We will all want voice everywhere. Businesses are not ready. Products are not ready.

Making sure you fit the guidelines as an applicant for this role is essential, please read the below carefully.

We’re building the infrastructure that helps developers close the gap between the raw model and voice AI in production. Give it a try here .

We launched in March , scaled revenue, and raised a Series A from a top-tier firm this past week. We’re a small team of 17 and growing. We're building out the founding team in-person in SF to scale what’s working.

Mission

As our Founding Designer, you'll be the bridge between our ambitions for the product and the engineering team. You'll have the opportunity to own the user journey from how they first hear about Vapi, to deploying their first voice agent, to discovering the powerful features behind the platform as they mature.

You will own the entirety of design at Vapi, and if you'd like, will have the opportunity to lead the team as it grows.

Outcomes

First 7 Days :

Work with product and engineering teams to solve acute burning design issues

Talk to customers, learn their pain points, and map our the information hierarchy for a full redesign of the Dashboard product

First 14 Days :

First draft of Dashboard product redesign completed

Conversation builder UX / UI improvements

Simultaneously build out design library and visual language

First 30 Days

Redesign onboarding flow to increase conversion from sign-up to first phone call with a Vapi agent

Decrease overall deployment time with an LLM-assisted onboarding flow

First 60 Days

Independently take user feedback from customers, design solutions, and proactively drive the product roadmap.

Redesign landing page and brand.

Qualifications

Experience : 5 years of experience in UX / UI product design, a big plus for experience designing developer platforms

Technical Background : Familiarity with writing code, you know what developers want, and know how developers use LLMs.

Communication Skills : Exceptional verbal and written communication skills for articulating design concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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