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Were a small team that moves fast and builds things were proud of. We care obsessively about taste: in design, in product, in every detail. Were solving these hard problems. Were backed by a Tier-1 global fund, YC, and founders of billion dollar companies.\n\n### Design\nVideo is the most powerful way humans tell stories. It always has been. But creating it today is still painfully hard. Fragmented tools, steep learning curves, and workflows that get in the way of the actual creative work. Were building Cardboard to change that.\n\nAs our founding designer, youll shape not just how the product looks, but how it works. You think product first and push back when something doesnt serve the user, and think through every user flow before a component gets shipped.\n\nIn our team, everyone has incredible speed, taste, and care that they put into their work. Youll often see people coming up with micro-interactions nobody asked for and losing sleep over things that feel slightly off by a sheer two pixels. Your job is to accelerate and harness that energy to make sure everything we build feels cohesive and intentional.\n\nYou will:\n- Own product design end to end: flows, UI, prototypes, and everything in between.\n- Advocate for the user in every room like a PM does.\n- Work closely with founders, engineering, and growth.\n- Build a design system.\n- Make something people love.\n\n### Who you are\nYou have taste.  \nYou own things end-to-end.  \nYou think like a PM. You notice the extra click, the label doing two jobs, the feature that shipped but isnt really done.  \nAI-pilled and restlessly curious. Rive, Spline, Paper, Reve, Claude design, whatever dropped last week, youve already tried it.  \nYoure a Figma expert. You love micro-interactions. Youve probably built parts of a design system, or at least felt the pain of not having one.  \nResourceful. When you need an illustrator, motion designer, or freelancer, you find them and direct them well.  \nBonus: you vibe coded or shipped a side project.\n\n### What you get\nYoud be surrounded by people who are absurdly good at what they do. One started coding at 11 and shipped an app with 6M+ downloads in high school. One got into CS engineering at 14 and has been working on distributed systems for 8+ years. Ones an ex-founder who took a company to 1.2M users and $300M+ in transactions. Thats the team. Were looking for someone wholl raise the bar on the creative side the way we have on the technical and business side. \n\nApart from that youd get:\n- Competitive salary and founding-team equity.\n- Unlimited tokens. Use whatever you want, as much as you want.\n- A healthy budget for tools, monitors, laptop, and anything you need to do your best work.\n\n### Share\n- Your portfolio and resume.\n- Your favorite product and one sentence on why.\n- One piece of work that youre proud of.\n- Optional: if youd like, record and send us a quick video : )",{"title":5,"description":140},"job-listing/cardboard-founding-designer-senior-8-jul","_UYPKw_EeiBX2uXawC5L1-IslaXeEZ12VSb4zI-hPA4",1783563229338]