We're a well-knit digital design studio working with products, brands and (ai-)code. Top founders come to us because we get early-stage like no one else. We help them define, build and scale future unicorns. That means we gotta try harder than Squarespace templates. Fair warning: this is not a place to coast. The pace is set by founders who move fast, and we like it that way.
We're looking for an independent web designer for a long-term B2B cooperation. You organise your own time and place of work and deliver the agreed results your way. Nobody here is breathing down your neck about what, when or how you do it. See a better route to the goal? Take it and take the cred.
The cooperation is non-exclusive: you're free to work with other clients, as long as it doesn't create an actual conflict of interest or breach confidentiality. Each project (scope, timeline, remuneration) is agreed separately, and taking one on is always your call.
Sounds like your kind of collaboration? Apply below.
What You’ll Do
- Design and ship high-converting websites for startups and high-growth businesses.
- Build outstanding design workflows that use AI to move from idea to prototype to production in days.
- Prototype custom AI-powered features - chat interfaces, generative tools, personalization layers - and bring them into real client work.
- Create storytelling-driven designs that captivate users and communicate brand narratives clearly and quickly.
- Integrate motion and interaction design using tools like Figma Make, Claude, Cinema4D, three.js.
- Collaborate with senior designers, developers, and founders to align design with business goals and conversion metrics.
- Explore creative tools and tech like 3D design (Three.js, Spline) and AI-native prototyping environments (Claude Code, Skills, .MDs, Figma Make, Gemini and whatever ships next month).
- Assist with copywriting - working with AI to draft, refine, and pressure-test messaging so design and text reinforce each other.
- Stay on top of the rapidly evolving AI + design landscape and bring fresh, well-considered ideas into projects.
- Participate in brainstorming sessions, design critiques, and discussions where you'll contribute creativity and sharpen your thinking.
It’s a match if you’re like this
- Have a portfolio that shows creativity, originality, and clear thinking - personal projects and experiments very welcome.
- Are Figma-native and comfortable picking up new tools quickly.
- Use AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, v0, Midjourney, Flora etc.) as part of your daily workflow - not as a gimmick. You have opinions about what works, what doesn't, and where the edges are.
- Have demonstrably efficient processes - you can walk us through a project where smart workflow choices turned weeks of work into days, without sacrificing quality.
- Understand storytelling and how visuals and words combine to communicate ideas.
- Think about conversion, not just aesthetics - you can defend why a design will perform, not just why it looks good.
- Are excited about prototyping custom AI solutions (interfaces, integrations, micro-products) even if you're early in the journey.
- Are curious about creative coding tools like GSAP or Three.js and eager to collaborate with developers on ambitious ideas.
- Have strong attention to detail and high standards for anything that leaves your hands.
- Are fluent in English and comfortable explaining design decisions directly to founders around the world.
Bonus points
- You've built or shipped a small AI-powered tool, prototype, or side project.
- You have experience prompting and orchestrating LLMs to do real design or research work - not just generating copy.
- Background in motion design (GSAP, After Effects, Rive, Spline, Jitter).
- Background in branding, digital marketing.
- Interest in or experience with the startup ecosystem.
What the cooperation includes
- A world-class bench around you: high-agency, senior, low-ego. We set the bar high, raise it often, and pull you up with it
- Founders from the Valley's top rosters: a16z Speedrun, YC, HF0 and more. We've partnered with 200+ of them
- AI-native delivery, not pixel pushing. The studio runs on it, and how you use it can shape how we all do
- A direct line to founders. Strong ideas go from concept to shipped in days, the decision loop is that short
- Trips to SF when the project calls for it. You get the epicenter up close
- Top-tier AI tooling (whatever's winning right now) and every access the project needs
- EU-timezone cooperation, overlap only where the project genuinely needs it
- Optional invites to dinners, retreats and nights out. Come if you feel like it
The process
1. You first
Hit that big Apply button and tell us about yourself. Don't forget to attach your portfolio.
2. Vibe check
Let's jump on a call, so we can both figure out whether it's a fit.
3. Show off
You’ll get a task so we can see your magic in practice.
4. Seal the deal
One last call to talk details (e.g. the scope and model of cooperation, remuneration, expected availability) and that's it!
Process description
This selection process will require you to use AI. We’ll need a proof/log of your collaboration (for example an access to GPT session, Claude Code session, or .md files wrapping up your journey). We’ll use it to understand your thought processes, how you achieve specific results, how you cope with problems, solve issues and overall - how tech-savvy you are.
Process coordinators
