Wefunder

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Lead Designer

$160K - $250K3an Francisco, CA, US Job type Full-time Role Design, UI / UX Experience Any (new grads ok) Visa Will sponsor Skills Figma, CSS, HTML Apply to Wefunder and hundreds of other fast-growing YC startups with a singleprofile. Apply to role 7

About the role

About Wefunder

We've raised over a billion dollars for thousands of founders in all 50 states, from ostrich farms to unicorns like Substack, Replit, & Mercury. We're a Public Benefit Corporation with a mission to keep the American dream alive. We're fighting to keep America defined by optimism, innovation, and opportunity1he best place for the ambitious to turn ideas into reality. We believe America is full of untapped talent, and that helping more founders get off the ground leads to a better future. Our goal is to help 20,000 more founders get off the ground. We're just getting started. We're a team of founder types: enjoy autonomy, responsibility, the opportunity to learn, and no red tape. Just make it happen.

The Role

You'll report directly to the CEO and lead design across the entire company. Good design is incredibly important to us. We believe beautiful software is the sum of thousands of small details, done just right, guided by good taste. We're looking for someone obsessed with nailing those details. Someone that will not only "make it pretty", but who is excited to figure out what our users 1oth founders and investors 1ctually want. You will help guard the "soul" of our product. It's an important job. We're very good at figuring out visa sponsorship when required.

Location & Culture

We're strong believers in an in-person culture. Our HQ is in San Francisco 1 we have two offices, one in the Mission and one in Seacliff with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge. We're a small team of ~30 that hires carefully. In this new AI world, one star can outcompete 10 average people. We'd rather stay lean, move fast, and spend our time building 1 not navigating big-company bureaucracy. We're tight-knit enough to spend 10 days on a train together without killing each other. Four times over the years, we've all taken the Amtrak coast to coast, stopping in 12 cities. We're a team of doers and thinkers who are insatiably curious  not just about work, but about kickboxing, mountaineering, chess, and everything in between. Read our Favorite Books 7Culture 7

What We're Looking For

• AI-excited

The days of a designer silo'd off in Figma are numbered  all roles are merging. You live-prototype your designs with AI tools like Cursor, Claude, Codex, or Replit, and you can train AI models to execute your design system so every engineer ships on-brand by default.

• Simplifies complexity

The law is complicated  often, a web page might have a dozen variations for legal reasons. You'll need an engineering-like brain to keep track of these details, while still being an empath to understand our users.

• Thrives in chaos

You love working in a small team in a fast-moving startup. You love ambiguity. You love taking initiative and not being told what to do. You want to work hard because that's how to maximize learning and impact.

• Pixel-perfect eye

Your portfolio is beautiful. You bleed minimalism,...