Associate Product Designer

About This Role

You've got real design instincts and you've started building with AI tools, not just handing off files. You want to ship the thing, not the mockup, and go deeper than your current role allows. We care more about how fast you learn than how long your resume is. You'll work next to senior builders who'll show you how we ship.

How We Work

We're an AI-native product team. Nearly 100% of the code in our product is AI-generated, and every IC (engineer, PM, designer) ships features end-to-end with agentic tooling. The lines between disciplines are intentionally blurred: PMs ship code, engineers make product calls, designers prototype in production. We hire for fluency in agentic development, not time in any one stack. If you've been building this way on nights and weekends because your day job won't let you (rigid stack, no token budget, "that's not how we do things here"), this is the place where it's the actual job.

What You'll Do

• Ship well-scoped design work end-to-end, design and build both, with agentic tooling and senior review
• Learn the codebase and our agent workflows fast
• Keep the craft bar high
• Stay close to how users actually use what you make

Who You Are

• 0–2 years in
• A portfolio with real UX and UI craft
• You've started prototyping and building in code with AI tools
• Hungry to go up and down the stack

What We Give You

• Top-tier AI tooling with unlimited token budgets
• Day-one access to the latest models as they ship
• A mature, multi-tenant production codebase with real users and real stakes
• Health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) match, unlimited PTO, and paid parental leave

Our Values

• Lead with humanity. Genuine empathy for our team, our customers, and the students and donors they serve. That includes candor, saying the hard thing because you respect the person enough to say it.
• Take smart risks. Urgency. Bold, informed bets before the picture is fully clear. Run the experiment instead of winning the debate.
• Take pride in the process. Fast is the standard and thoughtfulness is non-negotiable. Eyes on the work you control, not the scoreboard.
• Own the results. We measure everything. Accountability runs on data, not vibes, and we can tell the difference between an honest miss and a broken process.

Workspace

Hybrid, based in our West Loop / Fulton Market office in Chicago, roughly three days a week.