Pear VC
Pear VC
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Key Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end user experience designβ€”from problem definition to shipped feature
  • Map complex AI workflows for underwriting into intuitive, progressive interactions
  • Design product experiences across onboarding, dashboards, workflows, reports, notifications, and more
  • Rapidly prototype and test design hypotheses with internal teams and insurance end users
  • Define interaction patterns, state logic, edge cases, and UX documentation for engineering handoff

Visual Design & Brand Expression

  • Build and maintain a scalable component-based design system in Figma
  • Design data visualizations, iconography, and interface patterns for clarity, speed, and trust
  • Shape the company's visual identity across product, website, presentations, sales enablement, and social
  • Own and enforce visual consistency across all digital and physical brand touchpoints
  • Create design standards, guidelines, and quality controls for future contributors

DesignOps & Collaboration

  • Partner closely with engineering to define specs, implementation flows, and QA feedback loops
  • Collaborate with founders and sales on roadmap planning and user story definition
  • Establish internal design review, feedback, and documentation workflows
  • Define future team processes as we scale: design sprints, critiques, research cadence, etc.
  • Guide (and eventually hire/mentor) junior designers, contract contributors, and creative partners

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in UX/UI design, preferably for data-rich, enterprise, or B2B SaaS products
  • Portfolio showing full-stack ownership: user flows, wireframes, polished UIs, and live product screenshots
  • Mastery of Figma and modern design systems practices
  • Experience designing interfaces for technical or multi-role users
  • Strong UX writing instincts with clear labels and human copy
  • Experience conducting or leveraging user research and customer feedback
  • Highly comfortable collaborating with engineers, founders, and sales
  • Comfort designing and managing marketing websites, especially with Webflow or Framer
  • Based in or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area

Bonus Points

  • Experience with data visualization design or financial modeling UIs
  • Prior startup or 0β†’1 product experience
  • Brand design, iconography, or motion/interaction craft
  • Passion for AI, risk, resilience, climate tech, or insurance innovation

What Will Make You Stand Out

  • Obsessive care for interaction quality and user experience
  • Ability to work through ambiguity and find signal fast
  • Ownership of design systems scaled across multiple product surfaces
  • Experience designing for technical, analytical user bases focusing on speed, accuracy, and trust
  • Product management and engineering collaboration mindset
  • Interest in defining new categories and creating scalable, mission-driven design

Day to Day

  • Collaborate with engineers on rapid product iterations and weekly releases
  • Work directly with founders and senior stakeholders to prioritize roadmap and translate vision into user experience
  • Hands-on Figma work refining flows, design language, and user trust elements
  • Regularly interact with insurance customers to observe design impact on decision-making
  • Maintain design continuity across product, marketing site, internal decks, and social presence
  • Track performance of designs and iterate quickly in a collaborative, technical, outcomes-driven environment

What We Offer

  • Competitive compensation plus equity stake
  • Founding-level ownership and input into product direction
  • Comprehensive health benefits and 401(k)
  • Significant tools and workspace budget
  • Team off-sites, shared learning budgets, and early-stage creative freedom

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