Startup Product Designer

About us

Our mission is to make it safe to rely on AI. All around us AI-native companies and projects are being innovated. Although it is easy for a developer to get started with a foundational model, taking those projects to completion is rife with friction, risk and uncertainty.

Okareo provides developers with tools to better build software that incorporates use of LLMs through behavioral evaluation, fine tuning, and feedback. Okareo's current wedge is LLM evaluation + synthetic scenario data. We are a key building block for LLM-powered applications in production like RAGs and Agents.
The role
As a Product Designer at Okareo, you’ll be designing for a new category of development tools for AI application developers. You will work closely with the founding team to take the Okareo product to the next level. As a startup, everything we do is “product.” So, in addition to your work on the Okareo application user experience, you will also provide critical input on the developer experience and visual design for the Okareo brand. Critical to your success will be the ability to innovate new experiences based on AI.

Why Okareo?

At Okareo, you won’t just be designing for just another devtools company. You’ll be at the forefront of the GenAI design world helping build new patterns for interaction and pushing the boundaries of what is possible with GenAI design.

Key Responsibilities:

Intuitive Experiences: As a startup defining a new set of tools, there aren’t a lot of existing patterns. Everything you design will need to have a high level of discoverability, intuitive clarity, and return usability.

Design with Passion: Everyone has an opinion, especially at a startup. Bring your passion and design experience to steer our design innovation and conversations to build excellent developer experiences.

Data Driven Design: Design in the startup combines intuition and experimentation with user data analysis. You will have access to user interviews, analytics, and feedback. Part of the fun in startup design is the “just go for it and learn” orientation.

Visual Communication: With new metaphors and a complex product, it can be hard to communicate ideas. The team will need your help sketching ideas to explore innovative approaches to developer experience. Know when and how to use sketches, wireframes, flow diagrams, and high-fidelity designs to communicate our design direction.

User Advocacy: Be the advocate for Okareo’s users. Be brave and point out what is confusing and what is working.

Experience:

• 5-10+ years of product design experience, ideally in a startup environment
• 3+ years of visual design experience for product or marketing
• Proficiency with Figma
• A thorough grasp of interaction design, visual design, and user-centered design concepts.
• A collaborative and team-oriented mindset, with the ability to work effectively across various functions, share knowledge, and contribute to the progress of the entire design team.
• An innate ability to simplify complex problems and find innovative solutions to design challenges.
• A knack for managing projects from start to finish, ensuring high-quality design output and taking full ownership of the design process.

The Opportunity:

• Be the first dedicated design employee in a funded, fast-moving startup in a hot space.
• Ownership of the user experience and the opportunity to innovate in AI based experiences
• Have a chance to bring your full self, ideas, and innovation to set the voice for a new company.
• Learn new skills as we grow - (startup life: there are many more hats than heads)
• Meet 3+ days/week in San Mateo with builders and leaders as part of our hybrid workplace
• We offer competitive benefits, pay and equity
• Our team
• We are a team of multi-hat wearing individuals.
  
• We value diversity of thought and background because we have experienced the benefits it creates in products and in companies.
• We value independence and a bias for action attitude that comes with being a highly transparent and collaborative team

CEO/Co-founder Matt Wyman

CTO/Co-founder Boris Selitser