About the Role
You’re our first design leader, reporting directly to the founder. You will own how Bob looks, feels, and works, taking a hands-on approach to product design, user research, and shipping alongside engineering. The challenge lies in making a genuinely new product feel obvious, ensuring Bob is powerful yet approachable, autonomous yet controllable, and trustworthy without being dull.
Responsibilities
- Own the product experience from onboarding through daily use.
- Define how users give work to Bob, understand his actions, and intervene when necessary.
- Develop high-trust workflows for approvals, payments, account status, exceptions, and financial controls.
- Create the interaction model for an AI finance employee, not just a chatbot.
- Establish the design system and product quality standards across web, mobile, and conversational interfaces.
- Produce prototypes to validate product ideas before extensive coding.
- Conduct user research to identify and resolve user friction points.
- Shape the visual identity of Bob in collaboration with Growth Marketing.
- Build and lead the design team as the product and workload necessitate.
Requirements
- Demonstrated passion for the mission, users, and user experience details.
- Possess excellent taste and a commitment to shipping exceptional work.
- Exhibit high initiative, proactively identifying and solving problems.
- World-class hands-on product design skills with a portfolio showcasing simple, coherent products built on complex systems.
- Ability to think systemically while maintaining focus on the human element.
- Capacity to design for happy paths, failure states, edge cases, and clear explanations.
- Strong opinions coupled with openness to feedback, constructive defense of work, and adaptability.
- Excitement for AI, with a nuanced understanding of agency, trust, memory, interruptions, approvals, and human control.
- Experience in fintech, payments, accounting, developer tools, or other high-trust product areas is a significant advantage.
- Strong prototyping and frontend development instincts are highly valued.
Skills
- Product Design
- User Research
- Prototyping
- Design Systems
- Interaction Design
- Visual Design
- Frontend Development Instincts
Location
- Miami, Florida
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Design Leader
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $160,000 - $210,000 base + equity
Benefits
- Equity
- Ownership
About the Company
- BOB is a free finance employee for businesses, handling bookkeeping, vendor payments, invoice chasing, and financial queries through regulated partners.
- The company's philosophy centers on AI agents acting as economic actors, providing founders with increased leverage.
- They are building the financial infrastructure to make AI agents useful, safe, and accessible for businesses.
- Backed by Circle Ventures and notable founders from PayPal, Zynga, and Plaid, including Peter Thiel, Mark Pincus, and Zach Perret.
