Product Designer

About Artie

Artie is a real-time streaming platform that moves production data across systems in real time, with zero maintenance. We make high-volume data replication simple, reliable, and scalable for engineering teams.

Our platform powers mission-critical use cases including fraud and risk monitoring, inventory visibility, customer-facing analytics, and AI workloads. Artie is built for engineers who care about performance, reliability, and operational simplicity — and we’re growing fast.

We’re trusted by teams like ClickUp, Substack, and Alloy, and backed by top-tier investors including Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Pathlight Ventures, and the founders of Dropbox and Mode.

We’re hiring our first product designer to help make Artie self-serve, intuitive, and coherent as the product surface area grows.

About the Role

This is a product design role, not a marketing or brand design role.

As our founding designer, you’ll own the experience of using Artie day-to-day — from first login to advanced workflows. You’ll help turn a powerful but feature-rich platform into something customers can understand, navigate, and adopt without hand-holding.

This is a high-impact IC role in a small, fast-moving team. You’ll work closely with founders and engineers, move quickly through ambiguity, and ship improvements continuously.

If you’re a designer who cares more about usability, clarity, and customer outcomes than polish-for-polish’s sake, this role is for you.

What You’ll Do

Make Artie self-serve and understandable

• Design onboarding, navigation, and in-product guidance that helps customers understand:
  • Where they are
  • What’s available to them
  • How to use Artie effectively
• Improve feature discoverability and reduce reliance on support and founder-led walkthroughs

Bring coherence to a growing product

• Create clear, intuitive patterns as new features and capabilities are added
• Help rationalize feature flags, configuration surfaces, and advanced settings
• Balance power and simplicity for technical users

Be a strong product partner

• Collaborate closely with engineers and founders to shape product direction
• Ask good questions, propose solutions, and push back thoughtfully when something won’t work for users
• Translate product ideas into concrete, usable flows quickly

Ship fast and iterate

• Work with speed in a low-process environment
• Get designs in front of real users, learn, and iterate
• Optimize for outcomes over perfection

Occasionally help beyond core product (nice-to-have)

• Light contributions to product-related visuals (e.g. screenshots, minor polish for docs, marketing site) when helpful — but this is not the core of the role

What We’re Looking For

Product-oriented designer

• 3–7 years of product design experience
• Strong track record designing real, shipped products — ideally for technical users
• Prior startup experience is a plus, but not required

Speed and pragmatism

• Comfortable working with ambiguity and minimal process
• Bias toward action — you ship, learn, and iterate
• You don’t get stuck overthinking or over-polishing

Strong product thinking

• You design based on user needs and context, not personal taste
• You care deeply about usability, clarity, and adoption
• You can reason about tradeoffs and explain your decisions

Collaborative and opinionated

• Willing to push back, but always grounded in customer impact
• Comfortable working closely with engineers in a scrappy environment

Logistics

• Willing to work in-person, 5 days/week at our SF office
• Comfortable operating in a small, fast-growing startup

What You’ll Get

• Foundational impact: You’ll define how customers experience Artie
• High ownership: Real influence over the product, not just execution
• Tight feedback loop: Work directly with founders, engineers, and customers
• Room to grow: Role can evolve as the company and design needs grow

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $170K-$220K
• Equity: 0.15%-0.38%
• Healthcare, 401(k) matching, unlimited PTO
• Lunch & dinner provided

Hiring Manager Call

Live Product Critique

Onsite Interview