Product designer (Editor & Design system)

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About the company:

A new document editor is launching, built on battle-tested technology. The vision is set, engineering is ramping up, and the company is looking for a Senior Product Designer to design the entire product—from the first interaction to production.

About the role:

You'll turn concepts into a product that just works
A new product is launching, built on proven technology already used by thousands. The founders design how features behave, sometimes on paper. You design everything the user actually sees and touches.
You'll be the first and, for now, the only designer on this product. Specifically:
🧱 Build the design system. Tokens, components, and a Figma library the whole product runs on. Grown alongside the screens, not months ahead of them.
✨ Design every feature down to the last state. The editor, its tools, the dashboard, with errors, empty states, and edge cases worked out before anything goes to development.
📱 Treat mobile as an equal. Adaptive web on phone and desktop, held to the same standard. A native app is on the horizon.
🔎 Keep the build honest. Every feature passes your design review on staging before it reaches production. Broken layouts and clumsy type get caught by you, not by us.
🧭 Own the form. Concepts and feature behavior come from the founders. The form is yours. If a flow doesn't hold up once it's on screen, you come back with a better one.

What kind of designer we need
💠 Interface and UX craft. High standards you don't just know about, but actually hold: spacing and typography up close, hierarchy and edge cases at the scale of a whole flow. Design rigor is our benchmark.
🖋️ Taste you bring with you. Editorial typography, thin rules, restraint. More signal, less noise. We're looking for someone whose taste we won't need to teach.
🧩 Systems thinking. You've built a design system that survived contact with a real product: tokens, components, a Figma file other people can navigate without asking you.
🪡 Flawless over fast. A steady, predictable pace. We'd rather wait a day than ship a crooked layout.
⚖️ 80/20 instinct. You find the few things that deliver most of the result. Research, for you, means a quick hallway test to settle a disputed case, not a substitute for designing.
🛠️ Close to code. Clean handoffs, design reviews, sensible trade-offs with engineers. The more code you understand, the better, and sending your own PRs is a big plus.
🧵 Self-driven. You organize yourself, take ownership, and carry long work to the finish without being pushed.
🖥 You've shipped a whole product. 5+ years in product design, including at least one product you designed end to end and carried to production, ideally in your latest role. Native app experience and clear English UX copy are pluses.

You'll do that in a healthy environment
🧘 Lightweight culture. No micromanagement, no crunch. We love replacing meetings with Loom and organize around flat roles rather than hierarchy. We value balance, because when we're living well, we're working well.
👁 Design culture built on autonomy. No multi-stage approvals, no heavy pipelines. Any software, any process, up to vibe-coding and sending PRs straight to prod.
🌱 We love to learn and grow. We provide mentorship and will be happy if you mentor us too. We pay for courses, books, and subscriptions with minimal hassle and no approvals needed (within reason, of course).
⏳ Both product and process matter to everyone. We own our tasks, deliver them on time, warn when something looks wrong, and sound the alarm if product delivery is at risk.
🧶 We're a team and we care about it. We visit each other in person and spend an hour or two on Fridays catching up on what's new in our lives.