Founding Designer
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About Yara
Yara is building the future of finding work. Most hiring tools are stuck in the 90s and AI is making it worse, not better. More spam, more noise, more generic outreach that wastes everyone's time. We're reworking how people find their next role with one profile that actually shows your work, smart matching that puts you in front of the right companies, and a real person on the other side who cares about getting it right. We work with companies across AI, developer tools, consumer, fintech, and health tech, ranging from teams that have raised $1B+ with 3,000+ employees to earlier stage companies at $50M+ with 100+ employees. We've helped talent from Google, Apple, Palantir, Uber, and Ramp connect with companies like Vercel, Paraform, Abridge, and Parallel.
About the role
Be the first designer. Seed-Series A companies in the Yara Network need one person to own all of design: product, brand, systems, and the bar itself. You'll work directly with founders and watch your decisions ship the same week.
Who this is for
- You've been the only designer somewhere, or you're ready to be.
- Your craft is visible and yours: original work, not template aesthetics.
- You prototype in code, or you want to. The best of these teams treat design and frontend as one craft.
- You design dense, technical products and make them feel simple.
- Equity math excites you more than title inflation.
Requirements
- End-to-end product design with 2 or 3 deep case studies
- Figma mastery and a design system you built from zero
- Motion and micro-interaction craft
- Any production React or TypeScript is a major differentiator
- Comfort working in person beside founders in SF or NYC
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