Founding Designer
Summary
Founding designer owning end-to-end UI/UX across a two-sided engineer hiring marketplace. Designs polished consumer profiles, onboarding, and dashboards for engineers, plus scalable B2B hiring workflows, analytics, and internal tools for founders. Builds and maintains the cohesive design system, ships with engineers, and iterates rapidly.
Founding Designer - Headstarter
Location: Remote (US-based preferred)
Type: Full-time / Contract (flexible)
About Headstarter
Headstarter has built a 120,000+ engineer community and works directly with some of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S. on their most critical hiring decisions. We’re now turning that network into a high-signal talent platform that connects exceptional engineers with founders who are actively building. Our products sit on both sides of the marketplace: consumer experiences used by engineers and B2B systems used by founders, hiring managers, and startup teams. Design is a critical aspect of this, as it directly determines trust, conversion, and hiring outcomes at scale.
The Role
We’re looking for a UI / UX Designer who can own and elevate the end-to-end design experience across Headstarter’s consumer and B2B products. You’ll be designing interfaces used daily by thousands of engineers nationwide and by founders actively hiring and evaluating talent.
You’ll work directly with the cofounders, collaborating closely with:
Faizan Ahmed (Co-founder)
Yasin Ehsan (Co-founder)
This is a high-ownership role with real influence over product direction.
What You’ll Work On
Designing intuitive, polished consumer experiences for engineers (profiles, onboarding, dashboards, evaluations)
Designing scalable B2B workflows for founders and startups (candidate discovery, hiring flows, analytics, internal tools)
Translating ambiguous product ideas into clear user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs
Creating and maintaining a cohesive design system across multiple products
Collaborating closely with engineers to ensure designs ship exactly as intended
Rapid iteration based on user feedback, data, and founder input
What We’re Looking For
Strong UI and UX fundamentals with an eye for clean, modern design
Experience designing either consumer or enterprise products
Ability to think in systems, not just screens
Comfort working in fast-moving startup environments with tight deadlines
Strong communication skills and willingness to challenge ideas (including the founders’) when needed
Preferred Requirements
Experience in leading initiatives and launching to production
Seed - Series B startup experience is highly preferred
Experience working closely with founders, engineers, or product leads is a big plus