Founding Product Designer

About Us: BizTrip.ai is reimagining corporate travel through the power of artificial intelligence. We are redesigning the corporate travel experience from the ground up, and we're looking for passionate innovators who want to transform an industry ripe for disruption.
The Opportunity: We're seeking a Founding UX Product Designer to shape the future of our product experience from the ground up. This is a rare opportunity to define the design language, user experience principles, and interaction patterns for an AI-first travel platform that will serve thousands of businesses and their travelers.
As our first design hire, you'll have extraordinary impact and ownership. You'll collaborate directly with our CEO and CTO to translate our vision into intuitive, delightful experiences that set a new standard for how people interact with travel technology. While you'll initially work hands-on across all aspects of design, you'll also have the opportunity to build and lead a world-class design team as we grow.
The Ideal Candidate: The ideal person for this role is someone who cares about craft, but also knows how to balance that with the speed and results required to succeed at a startup. The modern startup world moves incredibly quickly, and so we will have to use every tool and trade-off at our disposal to match that speed. You should be able talk in depth about how AI tools will enhance your development capabilities and speed, while understanding the limitations and downsides.
Beyond speed, you should be passionate about creating exceptional user experiences and unafraid to work across the stack to get something working. You should have a strong belief that great design and UX separates the great products from the average ones.
We are a group of creators and builders, and one of our goals is to build a great company. We are doing that, in person, in San Francisco, and we are looking for people that want to work together, in the office. That said, we will resist any “N days in office” rules. Everyone deserves flexibility and we fully expect folks will spend time working outside the office. We will consider full-time remote for truly exceptional candidates.
As one of our early hires, you will play a critical role in shaping the culture of our company. With that in mind, we don’t suffer brilliant jerks, slow-witted jerks, nor an unsustainable hustle p0rn culture. We plan to win our market, and we expect to work hard, as a team, to do it.
What You'll Do:

• Own the end-to-end user experience of our AI travel agent, from initial concept through execution.
• Design innovative AI interfaces that make complex travel planning feel effortless.
• Develop and maintain our design system, ensuring consistent quality and scalability.
• Conduct user research to deeply understand the pain points of corporate travelers and travel managers.
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that bring our product vision to life.
• Work closely with engineering to ensure exceptional implementation of your designs.
• Help establish a design-driven culture where user experience is a central pillar of our product strategy.
• Stay at the cutting edge of AI interface design, bringing fresh ideas and approaches to our product.

What We're Looking For:

• 4+ years of product design experience at leading software companies, with preference for amazing consumer products, both web and mobile.
• Experience or deep interest in designing for AI-powered products, plus familiarity with modern AI interfaces.
• Knowledge and opinions about Generative UI and how it should impact UX design.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating your design process, problem-solving skills, and execution.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate design decisions.
• Self-starter mentality with the ability to thrive in an ambiguous, fast-paced startup environment.
• Passion for travel and strong opinions about how current travel could be radically improved.
• Ability to execute with speed and the flexibility required for a fast moving startup in its early phases.

Why Join Us:

• Pioneer a revolution in how millions of business travellers experience corporate travel.
• Shape next-generation AI interfaces that redefine user-machine interaction.
• Strategic equity ownership and competitive compensation.
• Directly influence our product roadmap and strategic direction.
• Help build and nurture a world-class engineering team from the ground up.
• A chance to build the best company you ever worked for.

At AI Fund, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. AI Fund believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.