{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"ff1364a75b7aed19cd044789","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ff1364a75b7aed19cd044789","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ff1364a75b7aed19cd044789","title":"Founding Product Designer","description":"About Sapiom\nAI agents are beginning to act on behalf of companies and users — making purchases, spinning up compute, triggering workflows, and interacting with third-party systems. But today's financial infrastructure was built for humans, not autonomous systems. Companies and developers need a way to give agents controlled access, meter actions, monetize usage, and transact across rails, without rebuilding payments, risk, and compliance internally.\nSapiom builds the financial payments infrastructure for the machine economy - autonomous spend rails that enable AI agents to transact with real-world services safely, processing every dollar spent, every policy decision navigated, and every risk signal generated.\nWe have assembled a world-class team with deep payments and infrastructure DNA to build the operating system for machines. Backed by a $15.75M investment from Accel, Menlo, and Anthropic, we are moving with relentless focus to deploy the economic substrate for autonomous agents.\nAbout the Role\nFinancial infrastructure for autonomous agents is a design problem as much as an engineering one — the surfaces we build determine whether developers trust the system, understand what's happening, and can move fast without breaking things. This role sits at the center of that challenge: shaping how complex, high-stakes transaction flows become interfaces that feel inevitable. The right person is a systems thinker who's equally comfortable pushing pixels and pushing back on product assumptions.\nWhat You Will Do\nOwn the end-to-end design process across Sapiom's core product — from early discovery and requirements gathering with Product, through iterative visual design, to guiding implementation with Engineering. You'll work across the hardest UX challenges in agentic commerce: spend controls, policy configuration, real-time risk visibility, developer-facing APIs, and the dashboards that make autonomous financial activity legible to the humans overseeing it. You'll help define Sapiom's design language as it matures — knowing when to use the system, when to evolve it, and when to break it deliberately. The goal: software that earns developer trust on first use and deepens it every time.\nResponsibilities\nOwn the full design process across product surfaces — from FigJam workshops and Figma mockups to production-quality prototypes built with v0, Cursor, or Claude Code — delivering the right artifact at the right moment.\nPartner with Product and Engineering to shape strategic direction, not just execute on spec — bringing design thinking into roadmap conversations early.\nDefine and evolve Sapiom's design system with precision — knowing when convention serves users and when a new pattern is necessary.\nShip interfaces for genuinely hard problems: agentic spend authorization, policy enforcement UX, real-time transaction monitoring, and developer-facing configuration flows.\nAdvocate across the company for design quality and consistency — establishing shared standards and raising the bar for how Sapiom's product looks and feels.\nNurture a design culture as an early team member — giving and receiving feedback with candor, mentoring where needed, and building the environment you want to work in.\nRequirements\nProven track record designing interactive products in complex technical domains — developer tooling, infrastructure software, fintech, or security — where the users are sophisticated and the stakes are high.\nExceptional visual, UI, and interaction craft — with the judgment to know when to follow the design system and when to push it forward.\nComfortable with modern design tooling across the full spectrum: collaborative workshops (FigJam), high-fidelity design (Figma), and production/prototype code (v0, Cursor, or similar).\nStrong written and verbal communicator — able to articulate a design perspective with conviction, seek feedback proactively, and influence peers without authority.\nDemonstrated ability to collaborate in fast-moving engineering environments where decisions get made quickly and the product ships continuously.\nCapable of holding a point of view under pressure while remaining genuinely open to better arguments — no ego about the work, full investment in the outcome.\nComfortable working in ambiguity and contributing to a function that's still being defined — this is an early role with significant ownership.","company":"Sapiom","rawCompany":"sapiom","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-06-17T05:04:41.840Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1255.00","title":"Web and Digital Interface Designers","slug":"web-and-digital-interface-designers"},{"code":"27-1029.00","title":"Designers, All Other","slug":"designers-all-other"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Founding Product Designer","description":"About Sapiom\nAI agents are beginning to act on behalf of companies and users — making purchases, spinning up compute, triggering workflows, and interacting with third-party systems. But today's financial infrastructure was built for humans, not autonomous systems. Companies and developers need a way to give agents controlled access, meter actions, monetize usage, and transact across rails, without rebuilding payments, risk, and compliance internally.\nSapiom builds the financial payments infrastructure for the machine economy - autonomous spend rails that enable AI agents to transact with real-world services safely, processing every dollar spent, every policy decision navigated, and every risk signal generated.\nWe have assembled a world-class team with deep payments and infrastructure DNA to build the operating system for machines. Backed by a $15.75M investment from Accel, Menlo, and Anthropic, we are moving with relentless focus to deploy the economic substrate for autonomous agents.\nAbout the Role\nFinancial infrastructure for autonomous agents is a design problem as much as an engineering one — the surfaces we build determine whether developers trust the system, understand what's happening, and can move fast without breaking things. This role sits at the center of that challenge: shaping how complex, high-stakes transaction flows become interfaces that feel inevitable. The right person is a systems thinker who's equally comfortable pushing pixels and pushing back on product assumptions.\nWhat You Will Do\nOwn the end-to-end design process across Sapiom's core product — from early discovery and requirements gathering with Product, through iterative visual design, to guiding implementation with Engineering. You'll work across the hardest UX challenges in agentic commerce: spend controls, policy configuration, real-time risk visibility, developer-facing APIs, and the dashboards that make autonomous financial activity legible to the humans overseeing it. You'll help define Sapiom's design language as it matures — knowing when to use the system, when to evolve it, and when to break it deliberately. The goal: software that earns developer trust on first use and deepens it every time.\nResponsibilities\nOwn the full design process across product surfaces — from FigJam workshops and Figma mockups to production-quality prototypes built with v0, Cursor, or Claude Code — delivering the right artifact at the right moment.\nPartner with Product and Engineering to shape strategic direction, not just execute on spec — bringing design thinking into roadmap conversations early.\nDefine and evolve Sapiom's design system with precision — knowing when convention serves users and when a new pattern is necessary.\nShip interfaces for genuinely hard problems: agentic spend authorization, policy enforcement UX, real-time transaction monitoring, and developer-facing configuration flows.\nAdvocate across the company for design quality and consistency — establishing shared standards and raising the bar for how Sapiom's product looks and feels.\nNurture a design culture as an early team member — giving and receiving feedback with candor, mentoring where needed, and building the environment you want to work in.\nRequirements\nProven track record designing interactive products in complex technical domains — developer tooling, infrastructure software, fintech, or security — where the users are sophisticated and the stakes are high.\nExceptional visual, UI, and interaction craft — with the judgment to know when to follow the design system and when to push it forward.\nComfortable with modern design tooling across the full spectrum: collaborative workshops (FigJam), high-fidelity design (Figma), and production/prototype code (v0, Cursor, or similar).\nStrong written and verbal communicator — able to articulate a design perspective with conviction, seek feedback proactively, and influence peers without authority.\nDemonstrated ability to collaborate in fast-moving engineering environments where decisions get made quickly and the product ships continuously.\nCapable of holding a point of view under pressure while remaining genuinely open to better arguments — no ego about the work, full investment in the outcome.\nComfortable working in ambiguity and contributing to a function that's still being defined — this is an early role with significant ownership.","datePosted":"2026-06-17T05:04:41.840Z","dateModified":"2026-06-17T05:04:41.840Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Sapiom","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Millbrae","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"ff1364a75b7aed19cd044789"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ff1364a75b7aed19cd044789"}}