Founding Product Designer

About the role

At Sentra we embarked on an exciting journey to build a one-of-a-kind company memory to help growing startups overcome scaling challenges. At Sentra, we've developed a true AI teammate that understands an organization's context, goals, and culture – offering both ICs and leaders unprecedented transparency into what's happening across the company and strategic alignment. Sentra is backed by a16z and Together Fund, working with leaders from the top tech companies in the valley. Our goal? To never let a company lose itself as it gets bigger.

Key responsibilities

• Work directly with the CEO on overall strategy and decision‑making about product direction.
• Partner with the product team to turn ambiguous ideas into clear requirements, flows, interactions, and design interfaces.
• Create flows, interactions, and designs for multi‑surface products such as desktop app, web dashboard, notifications, and AI outputs.
• Rapidly prototype ideas in Figma and interactive mocks to test with customers.
• Iterate on flows, prototypes, and high‑fidelity visuals while providing thoughtful feedback to peers.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure designs are buildable, performant, and scalable.
• Create reusable components, patterns, and documentation as the product scales.
• Define metrics and data points to measure design effectiveness.
• Run lightweight user research, usability tests, and feedback loops with real operators.
• Help deliver clear storytelling around product needs and opportunities.
• Contribute to the design org’s culture through critiques, mentoring, and sharing best practices.

Required profile

• 3+ years of experience designing UX and UI for software products of similar scale and complexity.
• Great attention to detail and a strong eye for visual craft, including composition, typography, and layout of modern AI products.
• Fluency in interaction design and prototyping in Figma to express and refine nuanced design decisions.
• Track record of independently driving design processes from discovery through launch, balancing user needs, technical constraints, and business goals.
• Ability to guide decision‑making with structured thinking, clear rationale, and user‑centered research.
• Experience with data‑driven decision making, defining metrics and data points to evaluate design effectiveness.

Required skills

• Figma

What we offer

• Competitive salary and equity
• Free meals on in‑office days
• UberEats credits
• Health insurance coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Equinox and other fitness/wellness memberships
• Transportation stipend
• Flexible time off