Founding Product Designer

The role

The Founding Product Designer will establish product design at Fundamental and shape product experiences. You will own the design system and lead the UX and UI for the platform and agentic products.

What you will do

• Define principles, processes, and standards for product design.
• Bring design into product discovery and shape product direction.
• Build a deep understanding of users through research and usability testing.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to identify user needs.
• Build and maintain an AI-native design system.
• Establish reusable components, standards, and workflows.
• Work with engineers and AI teams through implementation.
• Lead design across the complete product lifecycle for predictive AI/ML and generative AI workflows.
• Design end-to-end experiences across the platform and agentic products.
• Turn complex AI and data-science workflows into clear experiences.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience designing technical products, including complex enterprise B2B software.
• Strong background in technical web applications, enterprise platforms, or developer tools.
• 1–2 years of experience designing human-in-the-loop agentic experiences, including products and workflows spanning CLI, API, and graphical interfaces.
• AI and ML domain expertise with a practical understanding of AI and ML workflows.
• Problem-solving ability to address complex design challenges.
• Experience conducting user interviews, usability testing, and product discovery with technical users.
• Ability to shape design strategy and collaborate with Product and Engineering.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the autonomy to identify user needs.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong interaction design, systems thinking, visual execution, and measurable product impact.

Nice to have

• AI-enabled design practice using AI tools for exploration, prototyping, content, or code assistance.
• Code-first workflows for products spanning agents, CLI, API, and UI.
• Experience designing cohesive experiences across code and graphical interfaces.
• Experience mentoring designers or strengthening product-design practices.

About the company

Fundamental is an AI research lab pioneering the future of enterprise decision-making. Their flagship model, NEXUS, is a Large Tabular Model purpose-built for structured records.