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Vibiz

Founding Design Engineer

2mo ago
EuropeSenior
Vibiz

Founding Design Engineer

2mo ago
EuropeSeniorfigmacursor

Building and shipping beautiful, user-friendly AI agentic interfaces and UI components from concept through production.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build agentic interfaces that feel magical - the AI does the work, the user stays in control
  • Own end-to-end: from concept to Figma to working code in production
  • Ship UI components yourself using Cursor and Claude Code - no waiting for engineering
  • Untangle the confusing parts of the product - audit IA, redesign navigation, restructure flows that lose users. The dashboard, the create-flow, and the workspace shell are live candidates.
  • Define the visual identity, design system, and brand language of a product creating a new category
  • Work directly with founders and engineers - zero handoff, zero layers
  • Know what NOT to ship - sometimes the right answer is "remove this" or "simpler version," not "redesign." Judgment about what's worth building is part of the role.
  • Polish what compounds: empty states, loading skeletons, error states, transitions, hover states, focus states, micro-interactions
  • Own the words inside the product - microcopy, empty-state copy, error messages, onboarding hints, button labels. Words are UX, not decoration.
  • When we decide to ship feature X, you design it, build it, and merge it. You own it through to production.
  • Fix what doesn't work

Requirements

  • If any of these is a no → don't apply.
  • You can show work that is genuinely beautiful and functional
  • You ship your own designs to production
  • You use AI tools daily as part of your design workflow (non-negotiable)
  • You are open to relocate (mandatory)
  • You can show a real portfolio with shipped products, not just concepts

Nice to have

  • Active on X / Twitter sharing design work, experiments, or builds
  • Deep knowledge of motion design, spring animations, and interaction physics
  • You know who Rauno, Emil Kowalski, or Paco Coursey are - and why their work matters
  • You've built and shipped your own side projects or products
  • Background in early-stage startups - you've shaped a product from zero

Conditions

  • Above-average salary for the Italian market
  • Stock options - you're a founder, not just an employee
  • Massive growth opportunity in a fast-scaling startup
  • Small & young team (U25) moving at startup speed
  • Direct access to founders and real ownership

Other

  • We're building Vibiz.ai , the first Autonomous Company Platform.
  • We're VC-backed, have hundreds of paying customers, and we're building an AI agent that autonomously runs and grows businesses - spending budget, making decisions, executing actions, and driving real results.
  • We're looking for a Founding Design Engineer who has taste, builds beautiful things, thinks analytically when needed, and ships them into production.
  • Your job is to make the product feel obvious - so that our users can move fast and trust what they see.
  • You have shipped production UI for a real product used by real users - not portfolio pieces
  • You have an opinion on what good looks like and can defend it without being precious
  • You care about page performance the way most designers care about typography
  • You have specific products you point at and say "I want ours to feel like that"
  • You use Cursor or Claude Code daily and treat AI as core workflow, not novelty
  • You can drop into an unfamiliar codebase, read it, and find the right place to make a change
  • You read session replays, support tickets, and customer calls to sharpen your taste - not to outsource it
  • Figma is your home and you "also implement a bit"
  • You need design review meetings before pushing
  • You think performance is engineering's problem
  • You think "UX" starts and ends with how it looks
  • You have not shipped to a production app with paying users
  • Not a pixel-pushing factory - you make design decisions, not just mockups
  • Not a place where designs die in Figma - your designs ship to production, by you
  • Not a data-driven-everything culture - we trust taste and conviction
  • Not for people who think AI design tools are "cheating"
  • Not for people who need a spec before they can start
  • Not for people who only want to design
  • We play padel, ping pong, and tennis. A lot. Bring your rackets.
  • Show us your portfolio. Show us your shipped products. Show us the details you obsessed over.
  • No fancy degree required. We care about your taste, not your diploma.
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