Founding Product Designer

About this role

Truewind is growing rapidly and seeking a Founding Product Designer with a background in complex B2B enterprise software. You'll be the first designer to join our team with full autonomy to own and shape design direction for the entire product experience.

The ideal candidate is excited to collaborate with engineering, understands accountants and their workflows, and can design with detailed financial data. Our product competes with mature market incumbents, leveraging AI to radically transform the end user experience for accounting firms and their customers.

This is an exciting time to join the company, as we've recently closed our Series A round of funding. Our platform is used by top SMB accounting firms looking to use AI to automate complex bookkeeping workflows such as reconciliation, reporting, and compliance. We're onboarding new customers every day, and our product team runs a fast-paced and collaborative process.

• Hybrid work policy
• 3 days a week in-person in San Francisco
• Full-time role: $120k - $200k

Who we’re looking for

3-6 years of experience Experience building complex and data-heavy SaaS products; you’ve shipped end-to-end features and have a strong portfolio to back it up.

• B2B product experience: You've designed complex products for enterprise or pro-sumer customers, ideally with data-heavy workflows.
• Knowledge of accounting: Understanding of basic accounting principles and best practices, plus an ability to analyze and design with financial data.
• Ability to collaborate with engineering: You're able to dive into the details with engineering stakeholders, and have experience partnering on technical documentation and implementation.
• You thrive in a fast-paced work environment: You enjoy working on 0-1 startup products. You can deal with ambiguity, make trade-offs, and ship high-quality software to meet customer needs and company metrics.
• Entrepreneurial spirit: You're excited to work in a lean startup environment where you'll wear many hats. You have a growth mindset and experience launching a side project or company.

What You’ll Do

• Build out UX and UI views in Figma and other prototyping tools
• Create wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and documentation to inform development
• Define and maintain a scalable and component-based design system
• Research customers, the product landscape, and market trends
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and CX to ship high-quality features
• Define and maintain product marketing and brand design language
• Take ownership of the end-to-end product and customer experience

Employee benefits

• Competitive salary, plus founding team equity
• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Visa sponsorship available
• Off-site events in SF and NYC twice a year
• Can sponsor TN or H1B transfer but not H1B sponsorship

Company details

Truewind is AI-powered accounting platform. Our product automates complex bookkeeping workflows for accounting firms and their customers. We are a San Francisco-based startup backed by Y Combinator and other top-tier investors.

Co-founders Alex (CEO) and Tennison (CTO) met in San Francisco and started building Truewind in November 2022. Alex is a 2x YC founder and ex venture capital investor. Tennison has spent 10+ years building software at Flexport, Pinterest, and Alibaba.

Founded on the heels of ChatGPT, we are in a unique position to rethink accounting and finance workflows from the bottom up. In just 2 years, we've onboarded hundreds of paying customers, raised a series A round of funding from top investors, and built a product solving crucial problems for the accounting industry.

• Team size:18 people
• Website: www.truewind.ai/
• Funding: $17 million
• Industry: AI, Software Development, SaaS
• Founding year: 2022
• Office location: SoMa, San Francisco

1. Screening interview (30 min)
2. Product sense interview (45 mins)
3. Take-home project
4. Final onsite (3+ hours)