Founding Product Designer

About Nowadays

• Nowadays is the first AI platform for planning corporate events. For example, our AI can contact venues by email and phone to get availability, deal with back-and-forth negotiations, and present the best options.
• We’ve proudly planned events ranging from Amazon’s intimate executive dinners in New York, to Quantstamp’s product launch in Turkey, to Google’s offsite at Universal.
• Within the first 6 months of launching, Nowadays has experienced exponential growth, growing to $3.4M in booked revenue from customers including Amazon, Google, and Notion.
• Nowadays’ leadership team is comprised of talented MIT software engineering graduates as well as prestigious backgrounds including Google, Meta, Amazon, Doordash, and McKinsey.

Mission

• Our mission is to simplify the process of bringing people together by automating the complexity behind events. Our vision? To become the go-to platform for organizing unforgettable events — making it easy and accessible for everyone, everywhere.
• As a Founding Product Designer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our tech, product, and culture — and in building the future of how people gather.
• 💼 What You’ll Do:

• Own and evolve our entire design system, setting the foundation for all future designers
• Build and maintain our brand identity, from visual language to tone and voice
• Design polished, intuitive interfaces in Figma that engineers can build quickly and confidently
• Create marketing materials, graphics, and visual assets that help close enterprise deals
• Conduct user research and usability testing to validate designs before shipping
• Partner closely with product and engineering to shape what we build and how we build it
• Think deeply about enterprise design—what makes software feel polished, trustworthy, and scalable
• Help us avoid design debt by building the right foundations early

🥇 What you’ll bring:

• A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design work
• Deep expertise in Figma and modern design tools
• Experience building or contributing to design systems
• Strong product thinking—balancing user needs with business goals
• Obsession with details, polish, and delightful user experiences
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment and iterating quickly
• Excitement about owning design and building from day one

✨ Bonus Points

• Experience designing B2B SaaS or enterprise products
• Background in branding, brand identity, or marketing design
• Experience conducting user research and usability testing
• Zero-to-one startup design experience
• Familiarity with design systems like Material Design, Tailwind, or custom systems
• Experience collaborating closely with engineers and understanding technical constraints

• 🥰 Why Nowadays?
• Compensation & Benefits

• Working Times: US (PST) Hours
• Must be based in San Francisco
• $100K-$150K
• 0.25% - 1.25% equity

The amount listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.

All of our employees get

• Free lunch and dinner
• Quarterly team offsites (yes, we went to the White Lotus S3 hotel in Thailand)
• Monthly fitness stipend
• Health insurance
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Generous PTO with required time off to recharge
• High ownership, autonomy, and direct access to founders
• Access to top venues, events, and travel experiences