Centralize - Founding Designer
Requirements
• A portfolio that makes the case for itself. We care about the work, not the resume. Show us the product surfaces, the brand work, and the details you've shipped. • Sharp visual taste. You can look at a screen and see what's wrong, and look at a blank screen and know what should go there. • Range across product design, design systems, typography, and brand. You move between a dense enterprise workflow and a marketing page without losing the thread. • The instinct to think past the template. You find the solution nobody else saw, and you can tell when the unexpected choice is the right one. • You don't stop at the static mockup. At minimum you prototype your designs to a high fidelity, and ideally you take them into code yourself, whether by hand or with tools like Claude Code. The dream hire ships their own work to production. • Excellent written and verbal English communication. You can explain a design decision in a doc, defend it in a meeting, and demo it to a customer. • Demonstrated ability to operate independently. We give you the goal, not the steps. • THIS ROLE IS NOT FOR YOU IF • You want a team of designers around you to bounce ideas off. You will be our first designer, and the bar is set by you. • You want to work only on product, or only on brand. This role owns all of it. • You optimize for the perfect design at the expense of shipping. We grade on what's in production, not what's in Figma. • You want a slower pace. We work hard and move quickly. Please only apply if that excites you. • Experience as the first designer or a design-leaning founding hire at a fast-growing startup. • Background shipping consumer-grade UI in a B2B product. Bonus if you've worked in CRM, sales tools, or other enterprise software categories. • Fluency building in code (React, modern CSS) and shipping your own designs to production. • Experience building and maintaining a design system at scale. • Brand or marketing design work that shows range beyond the product. • Interest in growing into a design leader and building the team. • THE TEAM YOU'LL JOIN • You'll work directly with Rachit and Will, alongside former founders and engineers from Coinbase, Gusto, Modern Treasury, and C3 AI.
Responsibilities
• Own product design end to end. The flows, the components, the interaction patterns, the system that ties them together. • Build and evolve our design system. Color, typography, spacing, components, made scalable enough that the next ten engineers ship fast without breaking the visual bar. • Own the brand. The identity, the voice, the way Centralize looks and feels across every surface beyond the product. • Design the marketing assets. The website, launch material, decks, and social, often the first impression anyone has of Centralize. • Talk to customers. Sit on sales calls, watch users navigate the product, and turn what you see into design decisions. • Set the standard for visual and craft quality at Centralize, and raise it every day. • Lay the foundation for the design team you will eventually help hire and lead. • WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE • Week 1: First design shipped to production. • Day 30: Owning the design of a major product surface end to end, with the design system taking shape. • Day 90: The product and brand feel noticeably better than the day you joined, the design system is yours, and customers are commenting on the craft.
Benefits
• Location: This role is open to remote candidates in the US, with a strong preference for candidates based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco or New York City. • Work Authorization: We are unable to sponsor visas. Candidates must have existing US work authorization. • Compensation: $175,000 – $205,000 base salary depending on level, plus 0.40% to 0.65% equity. Final offer calibrated to seniority and experience. • Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance • Parental leave • Unlimited PTO plus company holidays • Quarterly offsite • Equipment stipend
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