We’re a small, but mighty team with backgrounds in big tech, as startup founders and as early members at successful startups. We’ve come together around a shared vision and are dedicated to creating important and positive experiences for cyberspace.

We're well resourced (unannounced rounds) & backed by top-tier investors, including the backers of companies like Airbnb, Pinterest, Snap, and Twitter, as well as the founders of companies like Zynga, VSCO, and Scale and the people behind artists like Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Lorde, Logic, and Panic! At The Disco, and many others. Our team is advised by the founders of Pinterest, Dubsmash (now Reddit), as well as pioneers of digital marketing and market design from Harvard.

We care about building a genuinely diverse team. We are a majority-first gen immigrant team and sponsor visas — we think that’s important as we build towards enabling easier digital migration. We share the same values of individuality, empathy, reliability, kindness and humility. One big overlap among our life experiences is *contrasts*: contrasts between our own upbringing and the world around us, contrasts between what was expected of us and what we ended up pursuing and our bringing together of contrasting, interdisciplinary worlds.

Interests across the team span stand-up comedy, poetry, fandoms, fly fishing, deep learning, sociology, memes, ceramics, skateboarding and much much more. 👐

We’re building Shelf. It's a digital shelf that updates as you consume content online. You can control what shows up on your shelf, and see when people you know are watching, reading or listening to the same thing. And it's built on top of infrastructure that allows you to reclaim control over your consumption and interest data, and provision third-party access to it to personalize experiences without compromising your privacy.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced, thoughtful product designer to join our founding team and help bring this vision to life.

In this role you will:

• Work directly with CEO (Jad)
• Jump into detailed edge cases in Figma, but also zoom out to think about how it all fits together on our roadmap and towards our ultimate vision.
• Make key product decisions alongside the team, informed by user research, intuition and business need
• Design features users will love
• Work closely and collaboratively with engineering, including joining our weekly sprint planning sessions to help prioritize what we’re shipping
• Set design culture and guide/mentor other team members on best practices for UX and brand.

We’re early stage, so you'll have an outsized equity stake and an unparalleled opportunity to shape the product direction.

Ideal Candidate

You’re likely a good fit if you:

Consumer product design experience: You should have significant experience designing consumer product experiences, and you should be familiar with UX best practices. We’ll want to learn from your experiences, so you should have a perspective on what makes consumer product experiences magical.

Five+ years experience: As a small startup, there’s a lot of room for growth but not a lot of bandwidth for direct design mentorship. We’re prioritizing candidates with 5+ years in design. We use Figma for most things, and Spline for 3D modeling — although don’t expect extensive experience with these tools (Spline was founded in 2020 🥲).

Team: You are a designer who wants to design great products and contribute to a great team. At koodos labs, we know that early teammates set the culture years into the future. You should be committed to the startup journey, have a perspective on what makes great design and what makes a great team — and you should care deeply about holding both product and teams to a high standard. We are an in-person team in New York and believe that being together IRL is an important part of setting the right pace, level of collaboration and culture early on.

Ownership: You’re ready to take end-to-end responsibility for product design. You know what makes a frictionless user experience, and you’re excited to collab with engineering to bring your designs to production.

Learning: You are comfortable building early-stage products and taking action with imperfect information. The market is changing rapidly, and we need to respond to change without running in circles. You should be comfortable adapting rapidly while remaining focused on a goal.

Individuality: You bring a unique perspective to the team. We want anyone in the world to be able to use our products, so we approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We recognize that bringing together different perspectives and backgrounds helps build stronger teams and products.

Startup Experience: You know that building great companies takes a lot of work. Seed-stage companies can offer some of the most challenging, invigorating, and rewarding experiences in tech — quite simply, koodos labs is different from Big Tech. It helps if you’ve experienced the ups and downs of startup life before, but so long as you’re excited for an adventure, we’re excited to have you join.