Founding Design Lead

3 weeks ago


Palo Alto, California, United States Lanai Full time
About Lanai

Lanai Software is at the forefront of the GenAI revolution, empowering humans to achieve the extraordinary in the age of AI. Our AI platform empowers large organizations and employees to discover, protect, and accelerate AI adoption, fostering innovation and unlocking unprecedented productivity. Backed by top investors, we're creating a world where everyone can confidently leverage GenAI at work.

Unlike tools that merely police AI use, our platform provides organizations with a first-of-its-kind solution for:
  1. Enabling GenAI fluency
  2. Illuminating use cases and insights
  3. Safeguarding GenAI use
  4. Revealing true business value

The Impact You'll Have

As the Founding Design Lead, you will be a core part of the founding team. You'll have the opportunity to shape the product's design language, systems, and user experience from scratch. This is a role for a highly entrepreneurial designer who can balance creativity with practical execution and thrives in dynamic, startup environments.

Key Responsibilities

As the Founding Design Lead, you will be responsible for:
  • Autonomously leading the entire UX design process from concept to execution, crafting intuitive, visually compelling user and enterprise experiences
  • Collaborating closely with the founding team to translate Lanai's aspirations to be a trusted partner to employers and employees in F1000 companies in all things Generative AI
  • Bringing a 0-1 mindset, spearheading the creation of a product from its earliest stage, with the ability to quickly iterate with customers and improve based on feedback
  • Developing and implementing design systems that are scalable and adaptable to future product evolution
  • Being a thought leader in UX best practices, incorporating AI and B2B experience where relevant to create a cutting-edge and intuitive user experience

What You Bring

We're looking for a highly skilled and experienced UX/UI designer who can bring a unique perspective to our team. If you have:
  • 8+ years of experience in UX/UI design skills across various platforms and products
  • Proven experience with 0-1 startup as well as in bigger enterprise tech products having built B2B and B2C products from the ground up and solid inclination towards GenAI/ML
  • Robust portfolio of work that demonstrates expertise owning the entire design lifecycle: user research, product design, user interaction, customer iteration
  • Comfort with ambiguity, experimentation, and rapid iteration and entrepreneurial spirit with deep desire to make a significant impact in dynamic startup environment
  • Solid communication skills and leadership skills, to articulate design concepts and strategies to cross-functional teams, customers and early career designers
  • Curiosity & Empathy: A strong sense of curiosity, empathy, and the ability to create intuitive user experiences that resonate with users
  • Bachelor's degree in design, Human Computer Interaction or a related field

What We Offer

We offer a competitive compensation package, including:
  • Founding equity options
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • 15+ paid company holidays and 30 days PTO per year
  • Your choice of tech
  • Commuter benefits
  • Team building events

Working Environment

Lanai is based in Palo Alto and we co-create in our office, together, most of the time. We have a regular in-office cadence for team connection and brainstorming sessions, with the flexibility for remote work the rest of the time. We use the best collaboration tools, schedule regular off-sites, and plan for team bonding experiences.
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