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a vinyl bar in shibuya lists this Founding Designer opportunity in new york city, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
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This role owns how our products feel, look, and behave.
Not as a service function. Not as a layer. As an author.
You will drive product design end to end. Interface, interaction, motion, visual language, and the thousand small decisions that make something feel inevitable instead of generic. You will work directly with the founder and engineers, in the studio, shipping constantly.
This is not a role for someone who wants clean tickets, long specs, or a big design org around them. It is for someone who wants the product to feel right and is willing to be responsible for that.
The Work
Own the design of our products from first frame to shipped behavior
Define and evolve the visual and interaction language across product and brand
Design music interfaces that feel tactile, playful, and expressive
Make fast decisions about flow, hierarchy, motion, and detail
Prototype ideas quickly and put them in front of real users
Collaborate tightly with engineering to ship daily or near-daily
Help invent new formats and tools for musical play, not just polish existing ones
How You Work
You care deeply about how things feel, not just the look
You move quickly and revise without drama
You have taste and can explain it without hiding behind theory
You notice when something is off and fix it
You are comfortable being the final design decision maker
Is This You?
Experience designing consumer products people actually use
Comfort owning a product surface end to end
Fluency in Figma and whatever else helps you ship faster
Interest in motion, interaction, systems, or code, even if you are not an expert
A personal aesthetic, plus the restraint to build something scalable
Real curiosity about music, games, toys, or creative tools
Solo projects count. Shipped experiments count.
Big-company pedigree alone does not.
Practicalities
Title: Founding Designer
Compensation: roughly $95k–$175k plus meaningful equity, depending on scope and experience
Location: in-person New York strongly preferred. LA or SF possible for the right person after an initial period
Pace: startup hours. Real ones.
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