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