Founding Product Designer

Company: ClothME Location: Austin, Texas, USA Employment Type: Full-Time Work Arrangement: On-site / Hybrid Reports To: Founder & CEO/CTO Compensation: Competitive Base Salary + Equity Eligibility Relocation Assistance: May be available

About ClothME

ClothME is building a better way for people to discover and shop for fashion.

We're creating a fit-first fashion marketplace that helps people discover clothing likely to fit them and their families, while helping fashion brands, boutiques, and retailers reach relevant shoppers.

Our platform brings together personalized fit intelligence, product discovery, merchant technology, and creator-driven commerce to make fashion shopping more convenient, personalized, and accessible.

For fashion businesses, ClothME provides an opportunity to acquire new customers, increase online and in-store sales, and reduce fit-related returns through a performance-based model.

There are no setup, subscription, or listing fees. ClothME earns a commission when it generates a sale.

Our long-term vision is to become the operating system for fashion retail.

We're an early-stage technology company with ambitious plans to grow across North America and eventually expand internationally.

We're looking for a Founding Product Designer who wants to help shape that future.

About the Role

As a Founding Product Designer, you'll play a central role in designing how people experience ClothME.

You'll work directly with our Founder and CEO/CTO and collaborate closely with Engineering, AI, Growth, Merchant Partnerships, and Creator Partnerships to create thoughtful, intuitive, and engaging digital experiences.

This is a hands-on product design position combining user experience design, visual design, interaction design, prototyping, research, and product thinking.

You'll help improve our existing applications while designing new features and experiences across our consumer marketplace, merchant platform, and creator ecosystem.

You'll be involved throughout the product development process—from understanding user problems and exploring ideas to creating designs, testing solutions, and working with engineers to bring experiences into production.

We're not looking for someone who only creates beautiful screens.

We want someone who understands how great design helps people accomplish meaningful goals, reduces friction, builds trust, and makes complex technology feel simple.

As ClothME grows, there will be opportunities to specialize, take ownership of larger product areas, mentor other designers, and grow into senior design or leadership positions.

Your Mission

Design simple, engaging, and accessible experiences that help people discover fashion likely to fit them, help merchants grow their businesses, and help creators participate successfully in the ClothME ecosystem.

What You'll Do

Consumer Mobile Experience

Help create a modern, engaging, and intuitive fashion shopping experience across iOS and Android.

Responsibilities include:

• Design and improve consumer onboarding and account creation.
• Create intuitive Fit Profile setup and management experiences.
• Design shopping experiences for individuals and families.
• Improve product discovery, search, and personalized recommendations.
• Design engaging product feeds and discovery interfaces.
• Create thoughtful product detail pages and brand storefronts.
• Improve favorites, saved items, and shopping collections.
• Design intuitive cart and checkout experiences.
• Improve order tracking and post-purchase experiences.
• Explore engaging interactions that make shopping enjoyable without sacrificing usability.
• Design experiences that help customers understand fit recommendations and sizing guidance.
• Work with Engineering to ensure designs perform well across supported devices.

Fit Intelligence & AI Experiences

Help translate complex AI capabilities into understandable and useful product experiences.

Responsibilities include:

• Design intuitive experiences for creating and updating Fit Profiles.
• Simplify height, photo, and other permitted fit-related input flows.
• Develop clear ways to communicate fit recommendations.
• Help customers understand sizing guidance and recommendation confidence.
• Design experiences for handling uncertain or unavailable fit recommendations.
• Explore AI-assisted product discovery and shopping interactions.
• Create clear explanations for personalized recommendations where appropriate.
• Collaborate with AI Engineering to understand model capabilities and limitations.
• Help ensure AI-powered experiences remain transparent, trustworthy, and easy to use.

Merchant Platform Design

Help fashion businesses manage their presence on ClothME efficiently.

Responsibilities include:

• Improve merchant registration and onboarding.
• Design intuitive brand setup and verification experiences.
• Simplify product creation and publishing workflows.
• Improve catalog and inventory management interfaces.
• Design merchant dashboards and reporting experiences.
• Improve product and order management workflows.
• Help merchants understand platform features and performance information.
• Collaborate with Merchant Partnerships to identify usability challenges.
• Design interfaces that reduce unnecessary administrative work.
• Support responsive web and mobile merchant experiences where applicable.

Creator Platform & Thesi

Help design engaging experiences for creators participating in ClothME's creator ecosystem.

Responsibilities include:

• Improve creator onboarding and profile experiences.
• Design intuitive campaign discovery and application flows.
• Support product marketplace and campaign interfaces.
• Design product selection and creator storefront experiences.
• Improve creator link generation and sharing workflows.
• Design campaign status and performance views.
• Help creators understand available earnings and attribution information.
• Collaborate with Creator Partnerships to identify usability improvements.
• Simplify creator workflows and reduce friction.
• Support future creator-focused product experiences.

User Experience & Interaction Design

Create thoughtful experiences that balance usability, engagement, and visual quality.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
• Design intuitive navigation and information architecture.
• Create polished interactions, transitions, and microinteractions.
• Design responsive layouts across mobile and web.
• Consider loading states, empty states, errors, and edge cases.
• Apply accessibility and inclusive design principles.
• Improve consistency across product experiences.
• Collaborate with engineers on implementation details.
• Review implemented experiences and provide constructive feedback.
• Continuously refine designs based on user feedback and product performance.

Design Systems & Component Libraries

Help establish a consistent and scalable design foundation.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain reusable UI components.
• Create design patterns for mobile and web experiences.
• Establish typography, spacing, color, and interaction guidelines.
• Document component behavior and usage.
• Collaborate with Engineering to align design components with production implementations.
• Improve consistency across ClothME's applications.
• Help reduce repetitive design and development work.
• Support accessible and maintainable design practices.
• Contribute to the evolution of ClothME's visual identity within its products.

User Research & Product Discovery

Help the team understand customers and make informed product decisions.

Responsibilities include:

• Participate in user interviews and usability testing.
• Gather insights from shoppers, merchants, and creators.
• Identify friction in existing user journeys.
• Analyze user feedback and behavioral patterns.
• Develop hypotheses for product improvements.
• Test design concepts before implementation when appropriate.
• Collaborate with Growth and Customer Experience on conversion and retention challenges.
• Document research findings and communicate recommendations.
• Balance user needs with business and technical constraints.
• Help prioritize improvements based on potential impact.

Product Strategy & Experimentation

Contribute to product decisions beyond interface design.

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with the Founder on product direction and priorities.
• Help define product requirements and user journeys.
• Explore multiple approaches to solving user problems.
• Identify opportunities to simplify complex workflows.
• Participate in product planning and feature discussions.
• Support controlled product experiments.
• Evaluate design performance using qualitative and quantitative feedback.
• Recommend improvements based on evidence.
• Help ensure product decisions support ClothME's long-term vision.

Engineering Collaboration & Design Delivery

Work closely with Engineering to deliver production-ready experiences.

Responsibilities include:

• Prepare clear design specifications and handoff materials.
• Document interaction behavior and responsive requirements.
• Collaborate with React Native and web engineers.
• Participate in implementation reviews.
• Help resolve design and technical trade-offs.
• Ensure consistency between approved designs and shipped experiences.
• Support quality assurance for user-facing features.
• Maintain organized and accessible design files.
• Contribute to efficient design-to-development workflows.

Required Qualifications

We're interested in demonstrated design ability, strong product thinking, and the ability to deliver excellent user experiences.

You should have:

• 3+ years of professional product design, UX/UI design, interaction design, or related experience, or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating thoughtful product design work.
• Experience designing consumer-facing mobile or web applications.
• Strong proficiency in Figma.
• Solid understanding of user experience and interaction design principles.
• Experience creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
• Strong visual design skills, including typography, spacing, layout, and hierarchy.
• Experience designing responsive interfaces.
• Understanding of accessibility and inclusive design.
• Experience collaborating with engineers to ship products.
• Ability to explain design decisions clearly.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Comfortable receiving feedback and iterating on designs.
• Ability to manage multiple design priorities.
• Interest in consumer technology, e-commerce, fashion, or marketplace products.

A specific degree is not required if you can demonstrate relevant skills and a strong portfolio.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with any of the following would be an advantage:

• Consumer mobile applications.
• E-commerce or marketplace products.
• Fashion, retail, or lifestyle technology.
• Social discovery or content-driven applications.
• Mobile-first product design.
• Design systems and component libraries.
• React Native application design.
• AI-powered product experiences.
• Personalization and recommendation interfaces.
• Conversion optimization.
• User research and usability testing.
• Motion and interaction design.
• Creator platforms or community products.
• Merchant dashboards or SaaS interfaces.
• Early-stage technology companies.
• Internationalization and localization.

Tools & Technology

You don't need experience with every tool listed below. We value strong design fundamentals and the ability to learn.

Product Design

• Figma
• FigJam
• Interactive prototyping tools
• Design systems and component libraries

Visual & Creative

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe After Effects
• Canva

Motion & Interaction

• Figma prototyping
• Rive
• Lottie
• Principle or comparable tools

Research & Analytics

• Maze or comparable usability testing tools
• Google Analytics 4
• Mixpanel, Amplitude, or PostHog
• User feedback and research tools

Collaboration & Documentation

• Notion
• Linear
• Slack
• Google Workspace

Engineering Environment

• React Native
• Expo
• Web application frameworks
• Responsive design systems

AI & Productivity

• ChatGPT
• Claude
• AI-assisted research and design tools

Experience with equivalent tools is welcome.

What Success Looks Like

First 30 Days

• Understand ClothME's mission, products, and target audiences.
• Review the existing consumer, merchant, and creator experiences.
• Become familiar with the current design system and development workflows.
• Identify high-impact usability and consistency improvements.
• Establish productive working relationships with Engineering and Product.
• Begin contributing designs for priority improvements.

First 90 Days

• Take ownership of important product design initiatives.
• Deliver improvements to key user journeys.
• Develop reusable design components and patterns.
• Participate in user research and usability testing.
• Improve design handoff and implementation collaboration.
• Contribute to product planning and prioritization.
• Help establish consistent design practices.

First 12 Months

• Help create a more polished and engaging consumer shopping experience.
• Improve usability across merchant and creator workflows.
• Contribute to a scalable design system.
• Support measurable improvements in onboarding, engagement, and conversion.
• Establish effective design and research processes.
• Help ensure consistent product quality as ClothME expands.
• Contribute to the design foundation for future international growth.

How Performance Will Be Measured

We believe great design should improve real user experiences and business outcomes—not simply produce attractive screens.

Performance may be evaluated through:

User Experience

• Usability testing outcomes.
• Task completion rates.
• User feedback and satisfaction.
• Reduction in user friction.
• Accessibility improvements.

Product Outcomes

• Onboarding completion.
• Fit Profile completion.
• Product discovery engagement.
• Conversion improvements.
• Merchant and creator activation.

Design Quality

• Consistency across product experiences.
• Design system adoption.
• Quality of prototypes and specifications.
• Implementation accuracy.
• Attention to interaction details.

Collaboration & Execution

• Quality of engineering handoffs.
• Ability to deliver designs on time.
• Responsiveness to feedback.
• Contribution to product decisions.
• Effective cross-functional collaboration.

Specific targets will be established based on ClothME's product priorities, available data, and stage of growth.

Who Will Thrive Here

You'll likely enjoy this role if you:

• Love creating products that people genuinely enjoy using.
• Care about both visual quality and usability.
• Think deeply about user problems.
• Enjoy working directly with founders and engineers.
• Are comfortable exploring ideas and iterating quickly.
• Take ownership of your work.
• Can balance creativity with practical constraints.
• Welcome constructive feedback.
• Enjoy learning from real users.
• Care about the smallest interaction details.
• Are comfortable in an early-stage company.
• Want to help shape a product with global ambitions.

We're looking for someone who is curious, thoughtful, creative, collaborative, and motivated by meaningful challenges.

Compensation & Benefits

ClothME aims to provide competitive compensation and opportunities for professional development.

Depending on eligibility and finalized company policies, benefits may include:

• Competitive base salary.
• Equity participation for eligible employees.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Paid time off and company holidays.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Learning and professional development opportunities.
• Modern design equipment and software.
• Relocation assistance where applicable.
• Long-term career development opportunities.

Final compensation and benefits will be communicated during recruitment.

Career Growth & Development

This is a founding design position with opportunities to grow as ClothME expands.

As our products evolve, opportunities may emerge across consumer experience, merchant tools, creator platforms, design systems, user research, and product strategy.

Depending on your interests, performance, and company needs, potential career paths include:

• Senior Product Designer
• Staff Product Designer
• Principal Product Designer
• Product Design Lead
• Director of Product Design
• VP of Design

These are potential career paths, not guaranteed promotions.

We believe advancement should reflect demonstrated design impact, collaboration, leadership ability, and the evolving needs of the company.

Employees who prefer to remain individual contributors should have opportunities to advance without moving into people management.

Interview Process

Our interview process focuses on design quality, product thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and the ability to create useful experiences.

Stage 1 — Initial Conversation

Discuss your background, product design experience, and interest in ClothME.

Stage 2 — Founder Interview

Meet with the Founder to discuss ClothME's product vision, design priorities, and the experiences we're building.

Stage 3 — Portfolio & Product Thinking Discussion

Walk us through selected projects, including the problems you solved, your design process, trade-offs, and outcomes.

Stage 4 — Practical Design Exercise

Complete a focused, job-relevant design exercise or review an existing project demonstrating your skills. We aim to respect candidates' time and avoid unnecessarily lengthy assignments.

Stage 5 — Collaboration & Design Delivery

Discuss how you work with engineers, respond to feedback, handle constraints, and ensure design quality through implementation.

Stage 6 — References & Offer

For shortlisted candidates, complete reference checks and discuss compensation, responsibilities, and next steps.

Why Join ClothME?

At ClothME, you'll have the opportunity to help shape how people discover, shop for, and experience fashion.

You'll work directly with the Founder and CEO/CTO and collaborate with engineers and product teams to create experiences that combine technology, personalization, and commerce.

Your work will influence how shoppers find products, how merchants manage their businesses, and how creators participate in our ecosystem.

You'll have meaningful design ownership, opportunities to contribute ideas, and room to grow as the company expands.

We're building a team that values curiosity, ownership, creativity, collaboration, and measurable results.

If you're excited about designing thoughtful digital products and helping build a technology company with global ambitions, we'd love to hear from you.

Join us in building a better future for fashion commerce.

Equal Opportunity

ClothME is committed to providing equal employment opportunities.

We welcome qualified applicants from diverse backgrounds and evaluate candidates based on their experience, capabilities, and ability to contribute to our mission.

Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process.

How to Apply

Apply through the ClothME Careers page:

https://clothme.io/careers

Please include your resume and a link to your portfolio or examples of relevant design work.

We'd especially love to see a product experience you helped design, the problem you were solving, your design decisions, and the results of your work.