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NYC in-office. Design world-class reading app, own product design/user research, build design culture. Must have frontend or coding experience, VC-backed startup exposure (seed-Series A), top university CS degree. No visa sponsorship. Salary $150K-$200K. Avoid candidates lacking strong design culture, impressive projects, or obsession with design.

Emily Wu

Robin Ahn

Karim Saleh

Shaahana Naufal

Perch is the first reading app for the Internet — all of your blogs and newsletters in one place. As more writing moves online, we believe this will comprise an increasingly larger percentage of all reading activity, and over time, we will be the #1 reading application/product in the world.We (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://x.com/mikemcg0">Mike</a> &amp; <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://x.com/mattmcguin">Matt</a>) also believe that removing friction from the reading experience will expand the market for blogs and newsletters from mostly chronically online people today (where do you find blogs/newsletters if you’re not on X or Reddit?) to the 5+ billion people connected to the Internet.Specifically, we’re focused on removing three key layers of friction:<ol><li>Cost. Writing is shockingly expensive. Twenty dollars for a book or a ten dollar monthly subscription is out of reach for most people. Perch will make it free. Lots of great writers already publish their content online for free, so we'll start with those. Then, once we've hit the scale required to support tasteful advertising, we'll share the majority of that revenue with writers to attract writing that currently sits behind paywalls. YouTube demonstrates how effective this model can be: it'd be silly for MrBeast to paywall his videos today.</li><li>Discovery.&nbsp;Writing is scattered across millions of websites, newspapers, magazines, and books. Perch will index it all and show you exactly what you want to read, before you even knew you wanted to read it.</li><li>Ease of use. Highlighting, picking up where you left off, audio, summarizing, themes, fonts, adjustable text sizes, and bookmarking should all be seamless. And if your grandma can't figure out how to do it, it's too hard!</li></ol>But don’t take our word for it, try the app for yourself <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://perch.app/">here</a>.A few dozen people are already using it almost every day even though we just released it to the app store a few weeks ago and have done very little to promote it. Our sole focus right now is getting the product to organic exponential growth solely via word of mouth. Some people are sharing it with friends already, but it’s not quite there yet.One more thingWe built this blog called the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/startuparchive_/">Startup Archive</a> that has hundreds of thousands of followers across Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Threads, and newsletter.It began as a way to dogfood our product and put ourselves in the shoes of people who write on line, but it has grown into this incredible distribution asset that can help share Perch with the millions of people it reaches per month.We haven’t promoted Perch yet though. We’re waiting until the product is good enough to grow organically through word of mouth before pouring gasoline on it.

Perch

Your sole responsibility as our Founding Designer will be to design the most beautiful and useful reading app in the world. This includes individual contributor responsibilities such as owning all things product design and user research. But you will also be responsible for building a design culture of incredibly exacting craftsmanship. If the design of Perch isn’t world-class, the probability of us serving a billion users is zero.We are biased, but we genuinely believe this is one of the most exciting design opportunities in tech. It’s an opportunity to do the best work of your life and build a product that impacts billions of people, while making the whole word smarter. Financially you can view it as compressing 40+ working years into 2-4 really intense ones. Here are the assumptions that have to hold for Perch to be a $100 billion company, based on the fact that Spotify is valued at $100 billion with 640 million MAUs:<ol><li>640 million MAUs: Hundreds of millions of people already read blogs and newsletters, and we think we can grow the market to 1 billion+ by removing discovery/cost friction from the user experience.</li><li>$30 ARPU: Spotify currently monetizes at $30 per user and Instagram’s ARPU is $50.</li></ol>But beyond monetary rewards, we believe this is a rare opportunity to do the best work of your life, build a product that a billion people use, become a better designer than you ever could’ve imagined, and cultivate friendships with your colleagues that last a lifetime. If this resonates, we’d love to talk with you.

Founding Designer

# Perch Founding Design Engineer

**What is Perch?**

Perch is the first reading app for the Internet — all of your blogs and newsletters in one place. As more writing moves online, we believe this will comprise an increasingly larger percentage of all reading activity, and over time, we will be the #1 reading application/product in the world.

We ([Mike](https://x.com/mikemcg0) & [Matt](https://x.com/mattmcguin)) also believe that removing friction from the reading experience will expand the market for blogs and newsletters from mostly chronically online people today (where do you find blogs/newsletters if you’re not on X or Reddit?) to the 5+ billion people connected to the Internet.

Specifically, we’re focused on removing three key layers of friction:

1. **Cost**. Writing is shockingly expensive. Twenty dollars for a book or a ten dollar monthly subscription is out of reach for most people. Perch will make it free. Lots of great writers already publish their content online for free, so we'll start with those. Then, once we've hit the scale required to support tasteful advertising, we'll share the majority of that revenue with writers to attract writing that currently sits behind paywalls. YouTube demonstrates how effective this model can be: it'd be silly for MrBeast to paywall his videos today.
2. **Discovery**. Writing is scattered across millions of websites, newspapers, magazines, and books. Perch will index it all and show you exactly what you want to read, before you even knew you wanted to read it.
3. **Ease of use**. Highlighting, picking up where you left off, audio, summarizing, themes, fonts, adjustable text sizes, and bookmarking should all be seamless. And if your grandma can't figure out how to do it, it's too hard!

But don’t take our word for it, try the app for yourself [here](https://perch.app/).

A few dozen people are already using it almost every day even though we just released it to the app store a few weeks ago and have done very little to promote it. Our sole focus right now is getting the product to organic exponential growth solely via word of mouth. Some people are sharing it with friends already, but it’s not quite there yet.

Here are a couple of testimonials from real users we didn’t know personally before they downloaded Perch:

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We’ve also raised $6M from some of the best VCs in the world — Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian’s 776 Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, and a few other angels.

For more on why we think building Perch is important, read our [mission statement](https://perch.app/about).

**The Role**

This founding design engineer role will be one of first three hires, and we’re in the process of setting up an office in NYC. This role is 100% in-person, and we only plan on hiring people who are so smart/amicable that you’d go into the office on a Sunday just to hangout with them.

We’re looking for somebody who is obsessed with design and loves bringing those designs to life with code. If you’re an exceptionally talented designer but don’t code, that could still work if you’re willing to learn (we’re more than happy to teach you frontend development — it’s not that hard!). Aptitude is more important than experience, in our view.

In this role, your sole responsibility will be to design and help build the most beautiful reading app in the world.

We share the view of Stripe founder Patrick Collison when he [said](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1774403827548242333):

> *“If Stripe is a monstrously successful business, but what we make isn’t beautiful, and Stripe doesn’t embody a culture of incredibly exacting craftsmanship, I’ll be much less happy. I think the returns to both of those things in the world are really high. I think even beyond the pecuniary or financial returns, the world’s just uglier than it needs to be… One can do things well or poorly, and beauty is not a rivalrous good.”*
> 

Working at Perch is a rare opportunity to work on a consumer product that everyone in the world can use. For example, one user shared it with her 60-year-old mom who loves reading Anthony Pompliano’s Substack 😂. And it’s not just that everyone *can* use it, but everyone *should* use it.

The promise of the Internet was to make us smarter. It gave billions of people access to the world’s knowledge in a pocket-sized device.

Yet we rarely feel smarter after using it. It usually just feels like a waste of time.

The problem is the internet has gotten incredibly good at giving you what you want—even when what you want isn’t necessarily good for you. If you can’t look away from a car crash, it will assume you want more car crash videos and show them to you.

Perch will fix this. It might not be as entertaining as TikTok, but you’ll feel better about yourself after using it. Kind of like going to the gym.

And the easier we make it to read, the more people will do it — kind of like how you’ll eat more cookies if somebody brings a plate of them into the office for everyone to share.

Come help us make everyone in the world a little smarter every day!

**One more thing**

We built this blog called the [Startup Archive](https://www.instagram.com/startuparchive_/) that has hundreds of thousands of followers across Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Threads, and newsletter.

It began as a way to dogfood our product and put ourselves in the shoes of people who write on line, but it has grown into this incredible distribution asset that can help share Perch with the millions of people it reaches per month.

We haven’t promoted Perch yet though. We’re waiting until the product is good enough to grow organically through word of mouth before pouring gasoline on it.

NYC, On-site: Seeking entrepreneurial product designer with startup experience. Collaborate with founders, leadership, engineers. Craft brand identity, design systems. Expertise in Figma, UI/UX, mobile/product design. Prototype swiftly. Visa sponsorship available. Salary: $150K-$190K. Must thrive in high-performance culture, understand industrial staffing challenges.

Danial Siddiki

Traba is a technology company that enhances the productivity of the light industrial supply chain. We connect businesses with vetted workers to meet their staffing needs by leveraging location monitoring, predictive algorithms, machine learning, AI, computer vision, and other advanced technologies. Our mission is to empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential. We’re proud to be backed by some of the world’s best investors, including Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.

Traba

Traba is a technology company that increases the productivity of the light industrial supply chain. We connect businesses with vetted workers for staffing needs by utilizing location monitoring, predictive algorithms, machine learning, AI, computer vision, and other technologies.


We are looking for an entrepreneurial and experienced product designer to help us reimagine the antiquated staffing industry. Our product isn’t an app; it’s the labor we deploy into warehouses and manufacturing facilities throughout the country (and eventually, the world). In addition to collaborating with software engineers, you’ll also work closely with our field teams to design practical on-the-floor solutions for our light industrial customers. This role reports to our Head of Product (who is also a designer) and brings over 20 years of Series A through D experience from some of the world’s most iconic and successful tech brands. You will also partner closely with our founders and leadership team to bring our product vision to life.

Founding Product Designer

Senior Product Designer. Strong portfolio showcasing strategic thinking and execution. Experience with SaaS, modular design systems, AI-powered workflows. Own product features end-to-end, collaborate with cross-functional teams. Hybrid work, visa sponsorship available. Salary: $150K-$200K.

Sean Finn

About usHarmonic is the startup discovery engine. We believe in innovation, entrepreneurs, and efficient capital markets. It pains us to see great startup opportunities consistently go undiscovered. So, we dedicated ourselves to mapping out the startup landscape and building the index and tools that ensure the most promising founders get found and funded.The world's largest and most prolific venture capital firms rely on us to find and invest in the next Google, AirBnB, Uber, Stripe, and Anduril. We play a crucial part in ensuring hundreds of billions of dollars get routed efficiently and that the innovations the world would most benefit from materialize.We’ve been growing steadily and need passionate driven people to help us get to the next level. If you want to work in a high-growth environment with some of the most talented folks on the planet and resonate with <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="c-link" href="https://www.harmonic.ai/careers">our values</a>, read on.

Harmonic

About the roleThis is a senior-level, execution-focused design role requiring strong individual contribution. As a Senior Product Designer at Harmonic, you’ll craft thoughtful, impactful design solutions for complex tools powered by AI and data. You’ll own product features end-to-end while collaborating with engineers, product managers, and data scientists to solve hard problems in intuitive ways.What you’ll do<ul><li>Craft impactful solutions: Take ownership of the entire design process, crafting thoughtful, user-centered experiences that address complex workflows and drive measurable outcomes.</li><li>Work across teams: Partner closely with product, engineering, and other teams to design, test, and ship features that address real user needs with thoughtful, precise execution.</li><li>Define the product’s future: Drive the product’s design direction by deeply understanding user needs and translating them into thoughtful experiences that align with business goals.</li><li>Develop at the frontier: Design products and interfaces which don't yet have well established interaction patterns, such as those fueled by agentic workflows</li><li>Discover what matters: Build meaningful connections with customers, teammates, and design partners to uncover real challenges and shape designs that make a lasting impact.</li><li>Collaborate to deliver: Partner closely with product and engineering to design, test, and ship features that address real user needs with clarity and precision.</li></ul>

Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Backend Engineer in NYC, on-site. Must have 5+ years backend experience with NodeJS, Postgres, AWS. Design data models, implement APIs, handle large datasets. Collaborate with engineers, work in organized chaos. Visa sponsorship available. Salary $130k-$200k. IC role; guide others but not managing.

Gerson Calienes

koodos created <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.getashelf.com/">Shelf</a>, which connects to your favorite services to help you keep track of what you’re consuming and, optionally, give your friends an authentic view into what you’ve been into lately. On Shelf, you can track what you’ve been consuming and get personal insights, plus you get a customizable web page that updates automatically and lets you showcase your vibe—sort of like a “Spotify Wrapped", but for everything!To power Shelf, koodos developed <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://datamover.org/">DataMover</a>, pioneering infrastructure that allows users to securely access their data from any site or app and store it in their personal data store. Similar to Plaid but for user data, DataMover has already been integrated into multiple apps, securely linking hundreds of thousands of accounts and empowering users to regain full control over their data access and privacy.While Shelf’s fun features are front and center, it’s also about giving users true control over their data. With the rise of AI agents and the death of cookies, there’s a growing need for personal data access and the future is shifting from centralized data aggregation to a more decentralized model where individuals have more of a say around access to their own data. Beyond market pull, this wave is driven by regulatory changes, technological advances in secure data management and transfers, and the rise of apps that seamlessly interact with user-controlled personal data stores.

Koodos

Shelf is a digital storefront for your taste & your new personal data manager.

It's built using DataMover, a toolkit for secure, user-permissioned integrations that lets you get user data from any site or app — even if it doesn't have an API. 



We believe that the way consumers and businesses interact with their data will drastically improve in the next few years. Koodos Labs is building the products and infrastructure that’ll usher this shift and you'll be essential in achieving this vision.We’re looking for an experienced, thoughtful senior product backend engineer to accelerate our product development. This is a backend role, with a strong collaborative element.We’re early stage, so you'll have an outsized equity stake and an unparalleled opportunity to shape the product direction.&nbsp;Engineers at koodos labs decide what gets built and why, in addition to figuring out how.&nbsp;

Senior Product Backend Engineer

We're NY-based (we have our own office in West Soho) and we work in-person. =

Experienced product designer. Master UI/UX, build experience, API integrations. Loves design tools, enabling sellers. Modern web tech: HTML/CSS/JS, React, databases, APIs. Work in-person NYC, FiDi. No visa sponsorship. $120k-$175k. 3+ years React, strong portfolio required. Collaborate closely with founders.

Arieh Movtady

At Coast, we make APIs visual, enabling companies to create instant and bespoke previews of a true integration for customers. Instead of showing prospects API documentation, customer-facing teams can now demo exactly what their API can do for any given prospect. Sales, marketing and solutions teams use Coast to collapse sales cycles, build pipeline, and offer bespoke solution journeys.We’re trusted by some of the world’s most innovative companies: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.twilio.com/en-us">Twilio</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://plaid.com/">Plaid</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.fisglobal.com/">FIS</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.zurich.com/">Zurich Insurance</a>, etc., and we’re backed by firms and operators like <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.ycombinator.com/">Y Combinator</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arash_Ferdowsi">Arash Ferdowsi</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://calv.info/about">Calvin French-Owen</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amasad.me/about">Amjad Masad</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.liquid2.vc/">Liquid2</a> and more.In 2023 we grew 11x, and in our first year in market signed public and growth stage companies across a number of industries: fintech, healthtech, insurance, unified APIs, transportation, communication and more.

Coast

We’re looking for an experienced product designer to join us as we build the backbone of technical sales. In this role, you’ll contribute to the entire product layout and design system, and will need the ability to think critically about our customers’ goals.By keeping a lean team, we’ve been able to move fast and want to keep it that way with high performers that take pride in their work. The role reports directly to our Founders and will work alongside our team in-person in our NYC office.

Product Designer

Product Designer wanted. Must excel in UI/UX, fast-paced, startup-savvy. **Key:** Independent, proactive, pixel-perfect design with coding a plus. **Responsibilities:** Lead design projects, user collaboration, brand evolution, Framer implementation. **Location:** SF or Remote (US). **Visa:** No sponsorship. **Salary:** $120K-$150K. Links to work essential.

Vincent Giardina

Unriddle is a single platform to find, understand and produce research papers.In just one year, we’ve grown to $1M ARR and 2M users. We’re growing 20% month-over-month and our users include teams at Stanford, GSK and Johns Hopkins.We use language models to surface and breakdown relevant information, suggest novel connections between papers and automate rote research tasks. This free’s up headspace for higher reasoning and insight - essentially expanding the researcher’s mental RAM and letting them load larger problems into memory.We’re starting with software to read, write and find papers, but our ultimate goal is to build the researcher of the future: a human-AI hybrid that’s an order of magnitude more effective than any single researcher.And we just closed a $2.4M seed round with participation from Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Tom Preston-Werner (co-founder of Github) and Steve Huffman (co-founder and CEO of Reddit).

Unriddle (YC S24)

We’re looking for a product designer to help us shape the future of science. We are not just looking for someone to churn out Figma screens. We’re looking for someone who we can lean on for all things visuals -- from the design of a sticker to the feeling of an animation in the product.As a founding member of the team, you'll make a significant impact as we rapidly scale revenue from $1M to $10M and then $10M to $100M+.

About the role
We’re looking for a product designer to help us shape the future of science. We are not just looking for someone to churn out Figma screens. We’re looking for someone who we can lean on for all things visuals -- from the design of a sticker to the feeling of an animation in the product.

As a founding member of the team, you'll make a significant impact as we rapidly scale revenue from $1M to $10M and then $10M to $100M+.

In this role, you’ll:

Lead end-to-end product design projects and work closely with engineers to ensure high-quality implementation.
Work directly with users and translate their needs into tangible user flows and actionable product decisions, directly impacting product direction.
Create flows, prototypes and high-fidelity visuals for your features and improvements.
Help evolve our brand and visuals and implement in Framer for marketing, company information, new launches and fun experiments.
You’re likely a good fit if you:

You move fast, have a strong bias for action and don’t shy away from stepping on toes.
Live and breath pixels with excellent taste for well-crafted interaction design and UI details.
Have worked in a high-growth, fast-paced environment (ideally another startup) and can drive things forward with relatively little oversight.
We’re based in San Francisco but have members of the team in Europe too. We offer premium healthcare (medical, dental, etc.), flexible working hours and office space with a beautiful view of the SF marina and Golden Gate bridge.

If interested, reach out with a couple of sentences about you, links to your previous work/portfolio (live products are best!) and what you want to do for us starting next week. This is super important - any application without this will be ignored.

About the interview
First, we'll have an introductory call to learn more about what you're looking for, the role and whether it's a good fit.

Next, we usually do a follow-up call with someone else on the team or a quick take-home exercise.

Finally, we'll ask you to join us for a one week paid work trial. This helps us get to know more about you and closely reflects what you’d be doing day-to-day at Unriddle.

If the work trial goes well, we'll make you an offer! We don't always stick to this process, but it should give you a good idea of what to expect.

About Unriddle
Unriddle helps researchers make breakthrough discoveries faster. We are a single platform to find, understand and produce research papers.

In just one year, we’ve grown to $1M ARR and 1.5M users. We’re growing 20% month-over-month and our users include teams at Stanford, GSK and Johns Hopkins.

We use language models to surface and breakdown relevant information, suggest novel connections between papers and automate rote research tasks. This free’s up headspace for higher reasoning and insight - essentially expanding the researcher’s mental RAM and letting them load larger problems into memory.

We’re starting with software to read, write and find papers, but our ultimate goal is to build the researcher of the future: a human-AI hybrid that’s an order of magnitude more effective than any single researcher.

And we just closed a $2.4M seed round with participation from Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Tom Preston-Werner (co-founder of Github) and Steve Huffman (co-founder and CEO of Reddit).

Can sponsor O1 for the right candidate and Canadian TN.

Preference for fully remote. In-person in SF is ok for a strong candidate if they're happy to work with a mostly remote team.

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