Founding Product Designer

Nava Insights is building a new generation of qualitative research software: AI-native, voice-first, and grounded in real research expertise. Our platform turns what used to be week-long, expert-led research projects into fast, rigorous, and intuitive product experiences powered by AI.

We’re early, ambitious, and deeply product-led. At Nava Insights, design is not polish at the end, it’s how we make complex reasoning, judgment, and research workflows understandable, trustworthy, and genuinely delightful to use.

If you love turning complexity into clarity, rethinking products from first principles, and obsessing over the details that make something feel right, we should talk.

The Role

We’re hiring a Founding Product Designer to lead design across Nava Insights’ entire product experience, from first interaction to deep, long-term usage.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you’ll help define:

• How AI-powered research should feel
• How complex qualitative workflows become simple, confident user journeys
• How Nava Insights’ brand, product, and design language come together as one

You’ll work closely with founders, product, and engineering to shape not just how things look, but what we build.

What You’ll Do

• Lead end-to-end design across all customer-facing experiences, from onboarding to advanced research workflows
• Translate complex qualitative research and AI reasoning into clear, intuitive, and trustworthy UX
• Define and evolve Nava Insights’ design system, visual language, and interaction patterns
• Prototype early and often, using Figma, AI tools, or whatever best communicates the idea
• Collaborate tightly with engineering and product to ship thoughtful, high-quality features
• Influence product direction by shaping problems, not just solutions
• Bring Nava Insights’ brand to life across product, marketing moments, launches, and content
• Balance a high bar for craft with fast iteration and momentum
• Help establish the design principles, systems, and practices that will scale with the company

You Are a Good Fit for This Role If:

• You have 5+ years of product design experience, ideally in startups or fast-moving product teams
• You have strong visual taste and care deeply about detail, typography, spacing, hierarchy, and flow all matter
• You’re highly proficient in Figma and comfortable building and maintaining design systems
• You have strong product intuition and think in terms of value, tradeoffs, and impact
• You’re excited about designing for AI-powered products, experimentation, and new interaction paradigms
• You thrive in close collaboration with founders, engineers, and users
• You can clearly articulate design decisions and reasoning
• You have a bias toward action, you don’t stop at concepts, you ship

Why Join Nava Insights

• Design at the core of the product, not on the surface
• A rare chance to shape a product, brand, and design language from the ground up
• Work on genuinely hard problems: trust, judgment, and clarity in AI systems
• High ownership, high autonomy, and real influence on what we build
• A small, sharp team that cares deeply about quality and long-term impact

If you want to help define how AI-powered research products should look, feel, and behave, Nava Insights is just getting started.