Founding UI/UX Design Engineer

Seattle / Remote | Full-Time

About Clearly AI

Clearly AI automates security and privacy reviews with AI. We built the product we wish we had after performing hundreds of reviews at Amazon and Moveworks, and today our users complete reviews in minutes instead of days.

Clearly AI helps engineering teams ship faster by automating security and privacy reviews. Companies like Rivian, HID Global, and Affirm use Clearly AI to cut review times from weeks to minutes. We’re building a new kind of AI workspace designed to help security, privacy, and compliance experts meet high standards in regulated enterprises.

We’re a fast-growing YC startup with enterprise customers who depend on us to stay secure and compliant without slowing down. As our founding UX/UI design engineer, you’ll shape the product experience end-to-end and set the design bar for everything that follows.

The Role

We’re hiring a Founding UI/UX Design Engineer who blends exceptional design instincts with front-end engineering skills. You will work closely with customers and subject matter experts from leading enterprises. You will own how our product looks, feels, and flows from first impressions to daily workflows. You will lead design for our entire product and marketing experience, building a best-in-class product for security and privacy teams.

You will also directly implement your designs in TypeScript and Next.js, working side-by-side with our founding engineers to build a cohesive, delightful experience that reflects Clearly’s voice and precision.

What You’ll Do

• Own our entire product front-end from high-level information architecture to final implementation in Next.js
• Design and refine user journeys across Clearly’s product, ensuring intuitive flows for technical and non-technical users alike
• Create and maintain UX requirements and design standards, including reusable components and accessibility guidelines
• Continuously improve usability and reducing friction through thoughtful visual and interaction design
• Monitor product usage via implicit and explicit signals, and use those insights to iterate quickly
• Own our marketing website, including building a new site in Next.js, optimizing for clarity, SEO, and conversion, and maintaining consistency with our product and brand
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and founders to translate user needs into elegant, performant solutions

What We’re Looking For

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in UI/UX design for web applications, ideally for B2B SaaS
• Strong frontend engineering skills, including proficiency in TypeScript, Next.js, and modern CSS frameworks such as Tailwind
• Proven ability to take products from low-fidelity concepts to polished, production-ready interfaces
• Experience building design systems or component libraries for consistency and scalability
• A data-informed mindset and comfort analyzing user behavior and soliciting feedback directly from our customers
• Startup DNA: thrives in ambiguity, moves fast, and loves crafting from 0 to 1

Nice to Have

• Experience designing AI or developer-focused products
• Familiarity with Figma-to-code workflows or other rapid prototyping methods (e.g., v0, Lovable)
• Interest in security, privacy, or developer tools

Why Join Clearly AI

• Be the founding designer shaping both our product and brand from the ground up
• Work in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment where design decisions have immediate impact
• Work with security and privacy leaders at cutting-edge companies
• YC alum with proven, technical founders and strong growth momentum
• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits
• Direct path to leadership opportunities as the company scales

“Everyone talks about 10x engineers but the real risk for most companies is not whether you can build it, it’s if you’re building the right thing. A designer that can distill why a user is adopting and then prototype the most clear version of that insight will save you millions.” - Nikita Bier