Founding Designer

Granola (Headquarters: London, UK)

Design Product Design UI UX Figma User Research Prototyping Visual Design Interaction Design macOS Startup Shoreditch Design

**About Granola:**
Granola is an AI notepad designed for professionals overwhelmed by back-to-back meetings. Our macOS app captures meeting notes and combines them with transcripts to generate insightful summaries, effectively creating a new kind of knowledge base. We are a well-funded ($24M+ raised), 15-person startup based in a lovely Shoreditch office, London, with a mission to build tools that enhance human thinking. We're backed by top investors like Spark Capital, Lightspeed, and notable angels. We believe London punches above its weight in design, talent, and taste. See our unique approach to early-stage product development: https://www.granola.ai/blog/how-to-evolve-a-product

**The Role:**
This is a unique opportunity to join Granola as our Founding Designer. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the product's user experience, visual identity, and overall design direction across our platforms (starting with macOS, expanding to iOS, Windows, etc.). You will work closely with the co-founders, engineers, and users to create an intuitive, delightful, and powerful tool that people love to use daily.

**Responsibilities:**
- Lead the design process from concept to execution, including user research, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, and usability testing.
- Define and maintain Granola's design system and visual language.
- Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure high-quality implementation of designs.
- Champion user-centered design principles throughout the company.
- Talk directly to users to understand their needs, pain points, and workflows.
- Contribute to product strategy and roadmap decisions.
- Shape the design culture at Granola.

**Ideal Candidate:**
- Proven experience as a Product Designer with a strong portfolio showcasing work on desktop or complex web applications. Mobile design experience is a plus.
- Expertise in the end-to-end design process, from research to high-fidelity mockups and prototypes.
- Proficiency with modern design tools (e.g., Figma).
- Excellent visual design skills and a keen eye for detail, typography, and interaction design.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
- Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment is preferred.
- Passionate about productivity tools, AI, and designing elegant solutions to complex problems.
- Based in or willing to relocate to London, UK (On-site role with flexibility).

**Benefits:**
Includes competitive salary, significant above-market equity as a founding team member, private health insurance (free for you, subsidised for family), flexible parent-friendly culture, beautiful Shoreditch office, access to Casa Granola in Majorca, 25 days holiday + bank holidays, and pension matching.