Founding UX Designer

📍 San Francisco | Work Directly with CEO & founding team | Report to CEO | 🚀 Stealth AI Startup | AI Agents on Data | 🏢 5 Days Onsite

Founding UX Engineer

Location: Onsite in San Francisco

Base Salary Range: Competitive Salary + Equity

Who We Are

UniversalAGI is pioneering the next generation of autonomous AI agents designed to harness the power of data for enterprises and government agencies.

We are seeking an exceptional Founding Designer to rapidly develop creative prototypes, deliver world-class UI/UX designs, and shape the user experience of our core products.

About the Role

As our Founding Design Engineer, you'll operate at the forefront of product innovation and user experience design. Like an elite athlete training for peak performance, you'll bring passion, dedication, and relentless drive to your role, quickly building intuitive prototypes and refined interfaces that captivate potential clients and inform product strategy. You'll blend creative vision with hands-on technical execution, actively shaping the direction and impact of UniversalAGI's products.

Key Responsibilities

Creative and Impressive Designs

• Able to come up with and implement very creative design ideas that WOWs customers

Rapid Prototyping & Execution

• Quickly design and develop functional prototypes for product demos, enabling the company to showcase capabilities to enterprise and government clients.

• Apply strong design principles and a user-centered approach to produce intuitive, attractive, and effective prototypes.

UI/UX Design for Core Products

• Own end-to-end UI/UX design for core products, ensuring elegant, user-friendly, and visually compelling interfaces.

• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to integrate seamless user experiences within technically complex AI-driven platforms.

• Regularly engage with potential clients and stakeholders to gather feedback, iteratively refining designs based on real-world insights.

User-Centric Innovation & Design Thinking

• Champion the voice of the user, continuously refining user journeys, interface flows, and interaction patterns.

• Lead design thinking workshops and processes, fostering a culture of innovation, creativity, and experimentation within the team.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work hand-in-hand with product management, engineering, and business teams to align design strategies with product goals and client expectations.

• Clearly communicate design rationales and concepts to diverse stakeholders, building consensus and driving alignment.

Qualifications

• Outstanding execution velocity and delivery

• Strong portfolio showcasing rapid prototyping skills, design thinking, and exceptional UI/UX outcomes.

• Expert proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar.

• Ability to quickly translate complex concepts into intuitive and engaging user experiences.

• Solid technical understanding to effectively collaborate with engineering teams.

• Exceptional creativity, problem-solving ability, and attention to detail.

• Comfortable working in high-intensity, fast-paced startup environments with evolving priorities and tight deadlines.

Why Join Us:

• Partner directly with the CEO & founding team to build a world-class AI organization from the ground up.

• Shape the recruiting process from ground up.

• Represent a uniquely compelling story - a high growth potential AI startup with substantial pre-seed funding, government contracts, and backing from Eric Schmidt, Elad Gil, and Turing Award winners.

• Develop your expertise in technical recruiting for cutting-edge AI roles, working with technologies and skills that define the future job market.

• Experience unprecedented professional growth in our high-velocity environment where you'll develop skills transferable to future leadership roles.

• Build your network among Silicon Valley's top AI talent and investors as you help scale a category-defining company.

• Make a tangible impact by bringing in the "force of nature" individuals who will create AI solutions used by major enterprises and governments worldwide.

• A high-impact role on a tight-knit, collaborative team.

If you're ready to design the future, push creative boundaries, and deliver impactful solutions, UniversalAGI is the place for you.

Compensation:

The expected salary range for this position is $100,000 - $200,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications. This position is eligible for additional benefits and incentives, including equity, health benefits, retirement plans, and others described below. We are committed to fair and transparent compensation practices.

Benefits:

We provide great benefits, including:

• Competitive compensation and equity.

• Competitive health, dental, vision benefits paid by the company.

• 401(k) plan offering.

• Flexible vacation.

• Team Building & Fun Activities.

• Great scope, ownership and impact.

• AI tools stipend.

• Monthly commute stipend.

• Monthly wellness / fitness stipend.

• Daily office lunch & dinner covered by the company.

• Immigration support.

While the range aligns with the posted job description, we're open to various experience levels. If the role evolves based on the candidate, we’ll adjust and communicate the salary range accordingly.