Artie is a real-time streaming platform that moves production data across systems in real time, with zero maintenance. We make high-volume data replication simple, reliable, and scalable for engineering teams.
Our platform powers mission-critical use cases including fraud and risk monitoring, inventory visibility, customer-facing analytics, and AI workloads. Artie is built for engineers who care about performance, reliability, and operational simplicity — and we’re growing fast.
We’re trusted by teams like ClickUp, Substack, and Alloy, and backed by top-tier investors including Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Pathlight Ventures, and the founders of Dropbox and Mode.
We’re hiring our first product designer to help make Artie self-serve, intuitive, and coherent as the product surface area grows.
This is a product design role, not a marketing or brand design role.
As our founding designer, you’ll own the experience of using Artie day-to-day — from first login to advanced workflows. You’ll help turn a powerful but feature-rich platform into something customers can understand, navigate, and adopt without hand-holding.
This is a high-impact IC role in a small, fast-moving team. You’ll work closely with founders and engineers, move quickly through ambiguity, and ship improvements continuously.
If you’re a designer who cares more about usability, clarity, and customer outcomes than polish-for-polish’s sake, this role is for you.
- Design onboarding, navigation, and in-product guidance that helps customers understand:
- Where they are
- What’s available to them
- How to use Artie effectively
- Improve feature discoverability and reduce reliance on support and founder-led walkthroughs
- Create clear, intuitive patterns as new features and capabilities are added
- Help rationalize feature flags, configuration surfaces, and advanced settings
- Balance power and simplicity for technical users
- Collaborate closely with engineers and founders to shape product direction
- Ask good questions, propose solutions, and push back thoughtfully when something won’t work for users
- Translate product ideas into concrete, usable flows quickly
- Work with speed in a low-process environment
- Get designs in front of real users, learn, and iterate
- Optimize for outcomes over perfection
- Light contributions to product-related visuals (e.g., screenshots, minor polish for docs, marketing site) when helpful — but this is not the core of the role
- 3–7 years of product design experience
- Strong track record designing real, shipped products — ideally for technical users
- Prior startup experience is a plus, but not required
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and minimal process
- Bias toward action — you ship, learn, and iterate
- You don’t get stuck overthinking or over-polishing
- You design based on user needs and context, not personal taste
- You care deeply about usability, clarity, and adoption
- You can reason about tradeoffs and explain your decisions
- Willing to push back, but always grounded in customer impact
- Comfortable working closely with engineers in a scrappy environment
- Willing to work in-person, 5 days/week at our SF office
- Comfortable operating in a small, fast-growing startup
- Foundational impact: You’ll define how customers experience Artie
- High ownership: Real influence over the product, not just execution
- Tight feedback loop: Work directly with founders, engineers, and customers
- Room to grow: Role can evolve as the company and design needs grow
- Salary: $170K-$220K
- Equity: 0.15%-0.38%
- Healthcare, 401(k) matching, unlimited PTO
- Lunch & dinner provided