Founding Design Engineer

We're building Vibiz.ai, the first Vibe Business Platform. We're VC-backed, have hundreds of paying customers, and we're building an AI agent that autonomously runs and grows businesses - spending budget, making decisions, executing actions, and driving real results.

We're looking for a Founding AI Product Designer - a design engineer who has taste, builds beautiful things, and ships them to production. Not a designer who hands off Figma files. A designer whose medium is code, whose obsession is craft, and whose work makes people feel something the moment they touch the product.

What you'll do

• Design and build agentic interfaces that feel magical - the AI does the work, the user stays in control

• Own end-to-end: from concept to Figma to working code in production

• Invent new UX patterns for AI-native products - this category doesn't have a playbook yet

• Ship UI components yourself using Cursor and Claude Code - no waiting for engineering

• Obsess over the details that make a product feel alive - animations, transitions, micro-interactions, typography

• Define the visual identity, design system, and brand language of a product, creating a new category

• Work directly with founders and engineers - zero handoff, zero layers

• Make decisions with conviction - we believe in taste-driven development, not A/B testing everything

Stack vibes

• Design: Figma, or something new you only know about?

• Building: Cursor, Claude Code, v0 - whatever takes you to production asap

• Frontend: React, Next.js, Tailwind, Framer Motion - whatever you need to ship polished UI

• AI tools: you know the latest great tool before anybody else

• Prototyping: Framer, Vercel - whatever ships fastest

• Speed > perfection

You are

• A design engineer - you design beautiful things AND ship them to production

• Someone with real taste - you know what good looks like and you can't unsee bad

• Obsessed with craft - polished interactions, no dropped frames, no cross-browser jank

• AI-native - you use AI tools as part of your creative process, not as a novelty

• Opinionated - you have conviction about how things should look and feel

• Comfortable with chaos - we're inventing the patterns, not following them

• Builder > employee

• Taste > process

• Speed > perfection

• Impact > title

Hard requirements

• You can show work that is genuinely beautiful - not just functional, beautiful

• You ship your own designs to production

• You use AI tools daily as part of your design workflow (non-negotiable)

• You live within 1 hour of Milan or are ready to relocate (mandatory)

• You can show a real portfolio with shipped products, not just concepts

Big add-ons (nice to have)

• Active on X / Twitter sharing design work, experiments, or builds

• Deep knowledge of motion design, spring animations, and interaction physics

• You know who Rauno, Emil Kowalski, or Paco Coursey are - and why their work matters

• You've built and shipped your own side projects or products

• Background in early-stage startups - you've shaped a product from zero

• You care about typography, spacing, and color the way most people care about deadlines

What we offer

• Above-average salary for the Italian market

• Stock options - you're a founder, not just an employee

• Massive growth opportunity in a fast-scaling startup

• Small & young team (U25) moving at startup speed

• Direct access to founders and real ownership

What this is NOT

• Not a pixel-pushing factory - you make design decisions, not just mockups

• Not a place where designs die in Figma - your designs ship to production, by you

• Not a data-driven-everything culture - we trust taste and conviction

• Not for people who think AI design tools are "cheating"

• Not for people who need a spec before they can start

• Not for people who don't ship

We play padel, ping pong, and tennis. A lot. Bring your rackets.

Show us your portfolio. Show us your shipped products. Show us the details you obsessed over.

No fancy degree required. We care about your taste, not your diploma.