Founding Designer

Founding Designer @ Artificial Societies

London
· Full-time
· In-office

80k - 120k Salary
· up to 0.5% equity

UK Right to Work preferred

This is a founding design hire
. You'll be the first dedicated designer at Artificial Societies, reporting directly to our Co-founder & CTO. You'll have an outsized impact on how our product looks, feels, and works - and how the world perceives our brand.

We're looking for someone who is a designer first. Someone with exceptional taste, craft, and a portfolio that speaks for itself, but who thinks and executes like an engineer. You're comfortable translating vision into working software, whether that means writing code yourself or leveraging AI tools.

• Own the product design end-to-end — from early concept and exploration through to polished, production-ready interfaces. You'll define how users experience our platform and shape new product features from the ground up.
• Own our brand and visual language — working alongside an external design agency to build and evolve a distinctive, cohesive identity across every touchpoint.
• Build what you design — write front-end code or use AI-assisted development tools to bring your work to life. We value designers who close the gap between mockup and implementation.
• Explore new ways of doing things — experiment with novel interaction patterns, data visualisations, and interfaces that make complex AI-driven insights feel intuitive and accessible.
• Set the bar for design culture — as the first design hire, you'll establish the standards, systems, and workflows that scale with us.

• An outstanding portfolio. Show us your work. We care about taste, range, and evidence of end-to-end ownership.
• Designer who thinks like an engineer. You understand technical constraints, reason about systems, and can have a productive conversation with a backend engineer about data models or API design.
• Comfortable building — whether that's front-end development (React, HTML/CSS, etc.) or working fluently with AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor or v0.
  Willingness and aptitude matter more than current skill.
• Deeply curious and willing to learn. AI tools are evolving fast. You're excited by that, not threatened by it, and you actively integrate new tools into your workflow.
• Early‑stage mindset. You thrive with ambiguity, move fast, and take ownership. You're energised by the opportunity to define something from scratch.

• Location: London, in-office. We build better together, and this role is no exception
• Salary: £80,000 – £120,000 depending on experience
• Equity: Up to 0.5% — this is a founding role and you'll be rewarded like one

You'd be joining a lean, ambitious team at the earliest stage — backed by world-class investors, solving a genuinely novel problem at the intersection of AI and human behaviour. As the founding designer, you won't just be filling a role. You'll be shaping the product, the brand, and the culture from day one.