Product Designer

Product Designer Product Designer About Adapt Adapt is on a mission to make any company instantly AI native. We're the universal intelligence layer teams use to connect their existing tools, knowledge, and skills to the best model for the job — think Claude Code, but for the whole organization, not just one engineer. Every person shows up on day one with the context, tools, and skills already wired up, and the answers get sharper the more the company adopts and integrates. Early customers tell us Adapt is a 10x force multiplier for

the team they already have — not a replacement for it. Thousands more companies are next.

About

the role We're hiring our founding designer to join the small, but cracked, product and engineering teams at Adapt. This is the design role at Adapt: you are capable of owning look-and-feel for the entire surface area — product, brand, website, docs, decks, social, every pixel a customer or prospect ever sees. We don't expect you to be a career specialist on both product and brand. We’re looking for someone who is capable and curious enough to move fluidly between a flow in the product, a wordmark, a marketing page, a launch video, and the system that holds it all together. We are particularly seeking a designer who cares deeply about taste, craft, and shipping — someone who can sharpen the visual identity that got us here, build the design system that takes us further, and prototype (and ship) in code when that's the fastest way. We care about the craft (yes, we vibe a little too), and we want someone who can set the bar for what Adapt looks and feels like for the next decade. About you Years aren't all equal (startup years are like dog years, as an example) and they're not the best predictor of success. That being said, you probably exhibit most of these characteristics: 4-7+ years of professional design experience, ideally spanning both product and brand Experience working at an early stage (seed, Series A, Series B) startup, or a strong portfolio of personal/side projects that shows range Expertise in Figma, with fluency in modern prototyping methods Comfort writing front-end code — HTML/CSS/Tailwind at minimum, ideally React — and shipping your own work to production with engineers (or directly) A portfolio that shows real range: shipped product surfaces, brand identity work, marketing pages, illustration or motion, and a point of view on each Strong interest in many of the latest and greatest AI tools and models, and an opinion on what AI products should feel like Consistent track-record of design work that you drove end-to-end — from the customer problem through the final shipped pixel Ability to break down a vague, ambiguous problem into something concrete and shippable (you may have found yourself saying "the fastest way to decide this is to prototype it") Care deeply about users — you've got receipts of customer-driven design decisions, and when something you designed frustrates someone, you feel it A genuine desire to grow the craft of design and product-building (you could call it "taste"), with an eye for the little big details across type, color, motion, copy, and information density How you'll be successful As the founding designer at Adapt, you own design end-to-end — from the customer Slack thread, through exploration and shipping, all the way to the launch blog post and the social posts (we call it "ship and tell"). Your job isn't done until customers love what you built and the way it looks and feels. As we scale, you'll own and grow the design function. Concretely, you're responsible for: High-quality execution. This is the central responsibility of any designer. You design, prototype, and ship surfaces — product flows, brand systems, marketing pages, launch assets — that just feel right. Shipping frequently. You ship boulders (like product surfaces and brand systems), stones (smaller polish passes and component upgrades), and pebbles (icon tweaks, copy fixes, alignment nits) regularly and consistently. Owning the look and feel of Adapt across every surface. Product, marketing site, docs, decks, social, swag, the office. If a customer or prospect sees it, you've shaped it. You set and hold the bar. Building the design system. Not a Figma library that nobody uses — a real, code-backed system that the engineering team (and coding agents) reaches for by default, and that lets us move faster as we grow. Customer discovery. You'll sit directly alongside our early customers and the many ahead to understand their pain points using Adapt and feed those into proposals and shipped design work. Strong internal and external communication. You'll help write our launch posts, design the visuals that accompany them, and communicate directly with customers about new capabilities and how they should be understood. Set a high bar. Lead by example. Expect mentorship, but bring a strong default to figuring things out yourself — especially the pace of an early-stage startup in a crowded AI market. Collaboration. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with