Founding Product Designer

Founding Product Designer

Location: Global Remote / San Francisco, CA · Full-Time

About Andromeda

Andromeda Cluster was founded by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross to give early-stage startups access to the kind of scaled AI infrastructure once reserved only for hyperscalers.

We began with a single managed cluster — but it filled almost instantly. Since then, we've been quietly building the systems, network, and orchestration layer that makes the world's AI infrastructure more accessible.

Today, Andromeda works with leading AI labs, data centers, and cloud providers to deliver compute when and where it's needed most. Our platform routes training and inference jobs across global supply, unlocking flexibility and efficiency in one of the fastest-growing markets on earth.

Our long-term vision is to build the liquidity layer for global AI compute. We are expanding to new frontiers to find the brightest that work in AI infrastructure, research and engineering.

The Role

You will be our first full-time designer. A part-time designer drove our original designs; you'll build on that work and own design from here: a developer-facing compute platform, the console where teams find, buy, and run GPU capacity across global supply. The work is dense and technical, closer to GitHub, GitLab, or Vercel than to a consumer app.

This is a hands-on IC role. You'll report to the Head of Product and work closely with the leadership team. There is no design team to manage yet; as we grow, you'll have the opportunity to build one. Your first job is to establish design as a core function of the company. The design system and product language you create will shape Andromeda for years.

What You'll Own

• End-to-end product design: Take problems from research to shipped UI. You'll pair with engineers through implementation and review what ships.

• The design system: Take over our existing system and mature it. Tokens, components, and patterns for dense, data-rich surfaces: capacity and pricing tables, usage and billing views, cluster and job dashboards.

• The developer experience: Every surface a customer touches. Console, dashboards, onboarding, docs, terminal, and the places where the product meets the terminal. Cut the time from signup to first running workload.

• Design direction: Set the visual language, interaction patterns, and quality bar for the whole product. Run critique. Later, help hire the team.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years designing software, with recent work on developer tools, infrastructure, or technical B2B products.

• A portfolio of dense, data-rich UIs for expert users: consoles, dashboards, tables, logs. Information density over whitespace.

• Design systems experience: You've built one, or shipped major contributions to one. Not just consumed one.

• You ship in ambiguity: You go from a rough idea to a high-fidelity product on your own, and you'd rather ship this week than polish next quarter.

Not A Fit

• You want to manage first: This is an IC role and will stay one for a while.

• You need an established design org: Here, you are the design org.

• Handoff mindset: You consider the job done when the Figma file is.

• Consumer-only portfolio: Brand and marketing polish without complex product work.

Strong Candidates May Have

• First or founding designer experience at an early-stage startup.

• Cloud console or observability work: Infrastructure dashboards, monitoring, or products like the AWS or GCP consoles, Grafana, or Datadog.

• Marketplace experience: Pricing, billing, or designing for both sides of supply and demand.

• Docs, CLI, or API design: You treat documentation and error messages as design surfaces.

• You prototype in code: HTML/CSS/JS, and AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, v0) as part of your craft.

Why You'll Love It Here

• Your design decisions become the company's design decisions.

• We are a unicorn, and our customers are leading AI labs and data centers in one of the fastest-growing markets on earth.

• Small senior team, a seat at the table with leadership, and impact measured in days, not quarters.

• Global remote, competitive pay, and meaningful equity.

Andromeda Cluster is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.