Founding Product Designer, Chalk

• 3+ years of full-time design experience
• Portfolio that showcases shipped work
• Comfort building for an engineering persona, with enough technical literacy to discuss APIs, data flows, and constraints
• A collaborative mindset – low ego about your designs and open to feedback
• Strong communication skills – articulate design decisions clearly and ask clarifying questions to align on context or feedback
• Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment, where “just enough process” is the goal and without a formal PM structure or formal product documentation
• Fluent in Figma

Desirable

• We’re looking for our Founding Product Designer to help define how engineers, data scientists, and ML practitioners interact with Chalk across our web and CLI tools
• As a founding designer, you’ll join us full-time, in-office, and early—shaping not just our product, but our visual language, interaction patterns, and design standards from the ground up
• You’ll collaborate with Chalk’s founders, engineers, and customers to turn complex data infrastructure and workflows into clean, intuitive interfaces. If you love turning gnarly back-end power into smooth front-end magic and are eager to deliver designs weekly, we’d love to meet you
• Work directly with engineers and founders to navigate the problem space, define requirements, prototype solutions, and ship polished experiences (we do not have product managers)
• Own UI/UX end-to-end, from concept to high-fidelity mocks to implementation
• Actively gather feedback from peers and users (mostly engineers and data scientists) to validate designs and rapidly iterate
• Balance speed and polish, with a bias to making pragmatic trade-offs to ship fast and learn
• Help start the design system: components, patterns, and principles that scale with the team
• Within your first 7 days, ship designs ready for implementation