Listen Labs
Tech / AI / Software
FoundingProductDesigner
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“Founding Product Designer at Listen Labs. Skills: product design, design systems, prototyping, influencing product direction, translating complexity into simplicity. Lead end-to-end design across all customer-facing experiences. Define and evolve Listen’s design system, visual language, and component library”
What You'll Achieve.
create a seamless and intuitive journey from first touch to long-term engagement; ship thoughtful, high-impact features; communicate the vision best; shape what we build; make faster, smarter product decisions
Industry & Context.
turn complex, week-long consulting projects into elegant, simple experiences powered by AI; Translate complex research workflows into simple, intuitive, and delightful user experiences
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of product design experience, ideally at startups or high-velocity teams, visual taste and attention to detail, Expert in Figma and confident in building/maintaining design systems, product sense, Excited to experiment with AI-driven tools and fast prototyping approaches, Thrive in close collaboration with founders, engineers, and customers, Clear communicator who can articulate design decisions and reasoning, Bias toward action
What You'll Do.
Lead end-to-end design across all customer-facing experiences
Define and evolve Listen’s design system
and component library
Collaborate closely with product and engineering to ship thoughtful
Prototype ideas rapidly
Influence product direction
Translate complex research workflows into simple
and delightful user experiences
Bring our brand to life across marketing moments
Balance high design standards with rapid iteration
Champion customer insight in every decision
Build the design foundations — systems
and processes — that will scale as we grow
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate closely with product and engineering; Thrive in close collaboration with founders, engineers, and customers
Communication Scope
Clear communicator who can articulate design decisions and reasoning
Full Job Description
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
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