Founding Product Designer

TL;DR: We're hiring a Founding Product Designer to turn complex, week-long consulting projects into elegant, simple experiences powered by AI. If you love rethinking products from the ground up, turning complexity into beauty, and obsessing over every detail, we should talk. Background Listen Labs is an AI-powered research platform that helps teams uncover insights from customer interviews in hours — not months. We help customers analyze conversations, surface themes, and make faster, smarter product decisions. Company highlights — entirely product-led: World-Class Team: Founded by serial entrepreneurs (previous AI exit), former co-founders, and talent from Jane Street, Twitter, Stripe, Affirm, Bain, Goldman Sachs, and many more Sequoia-backed startups (plus IOI/ICPC backgrounds). Hypergrowth: We’re a 30-person team backed by Sequoia, growing from $0 to a $10M run-rate in under a year. We move fast, care deeply about craft, and love working with people who take ownership. Traction: Rapid growth across segments with enterprise wins at Google, Microsoft, Nestlé, and P&G. Performance: Industry-leading win rate driven by a highly differentiated product. Market Validation: Consistently winning customers across all segments with over six-figure lands that lead to quick expansions. Viral Product: Interviews are shared with tens of thousands of viewers, fueling PLG, organic expansion, and daily inbound from Fortune 500s. What You’ll Do Lead end-to-end design across all customer-facing experiences, creating a seamless and intuitive journey from first touch to long-term engagement. Define and evolve Listen’s design system, visual language, and component library. Collaborate closely with product and engineering to ship thoughtful, high-impact features. Prototype ideas rapidly using Figma, AI tools, or whatever communicates the vision best. Influence product direction — you’ll shape what we build, not just how it looks. Translate complex research workflows into simple, intuitive, and delightful user experiences. Bring our brand to life across marketing moments — from launch visuals to merch and social content. Balance high design standards with rapid iteration — knowing great work comes from both craft and momentum. Champion customer insight in every decision, helping