Founding Product Designer

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 from $0 to $2M 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.

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.

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

At Nowadays, we are building an end-to-end platform for planning corporate events that combines modern web infrastructure with applied AI to solve real, high-stakes operational problems.

Our core stack includes:

Frontend: React, TypeScript, Next.js

Backend: Node.js and Python for APIs, background jobs, and data pipelines

Data: PostgreSQL with SQL-heavy workflows and analytics-driven product decisions

Infrastructure: Serverless and cloud-native architecture with modern CI/CD and production monitoring

AI: LLM-powered systems for information extraction, pricing intelligence, negotiation support, and decision workflows

Hard and interesting problems we are solving:

Turning unstructured inputs such as emails, PDFs, proposals, and contracts into clean, structured, decision-ready data

Building AI systems that planners trust through explainable outputs, human-in-the-loop workflows, and enterprise-grade reliability

Designing fast, intuitive UIs for complex financial and logistical data including rates, attrition, concessions, budgets, and timelines

Scaling from scrappy zero-to-one features to systems that support global enterprises planning hundreds of events per year

Making real-world coordination across venues, vendors, travel, budgets, and stakeholders feel as smooth as modern software

As a Founding Engineer, you will own systems end-to-end, from product design to architecture decisions to production deployment. You will help define our engineering culture, tooling, and technical roadmap while working directly with the founders to ship quickly and build software people rely on to bring teams together in real life.