- Company Name
- Mental & Mentla
- Job Title
- Founding Designer
- Job Description
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**Job Title**: Founding Designer
**Role Summary**:
Lead end-to-end design of an AI-powered mobile emotional‑health companion. Own visual and interaction design, build a scalable design system, and drive user‑centered product strategy in a fast‑moving startup environment.
**Expectations**:
- Deliver polished, intuitive mobile UX from concept to production.
- Establish a future‑proof design system prioritizing accessibility, internationalization, and modularity.
- Collaborate with engineering and product to set roadmaps, define feature scope, and meet tight deadlines.
- Utilize AI tools for ideation while maintaining human‑centered, brand‑aligned outputs.
**Key Responsibilities**:
1. Design the flagship mobile app’s visual language, interactions, and animations.
2. Create and maintain a comprehensive design system (components, patterns, accessibility guidelines).
3. Conduct user research, synthesize insights, and translate findings into design decisions.
4. Partner with product and engineering to prioritize features and outline implementation scope.
5. Iterate designs rapidly, balancing speed with high quality and brand consistency.
6. Incorporate AI tools for accelerated ideation, prototype generation, and design optimization.
**Required Skills**:
- Senior product design experience, preferably consumer mobile.
- Expert proficiency in Figma (layout, prototyping, animation, component libraries).
- Strong UX, visual design, typography, iconography, and illustration skills.
- Design thinking and user‑research methodology (interviews, usability testing, analytics).
- Ability to create accessible, internationalized, modular design systems.
- Rapid prototyping and high‑fidelity visual design.
- Experience leveraging AI tools for design work.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and time‑management in a startup setting.
**Required Education & Certifications**:
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human‑Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or related field.
- Portfolio demonstrating mobile design, design system work, and user research application.
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San francisco, United states
Hybrid
05-12-2025