Stripe
Financial infrastructure for the internet. Legendary for design quality.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
16 live roles
150+ designers
Independent company index
Companies making room for serious design.
105 companies are hiring now. We show the evidence—live roles, team context, and the reason each company stays on our radar.
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105 companies
Canva
Visual design platform making graphic design accessible to everyone.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
11 live roles
21+ designers
Meta
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, Reality Labs — all under one roof.
Why we track it
Love or hate the company, Meta's design team is massive and ships to billions of people. Instagram alone is one of the most design-influential products ever made. Reality Labs is pushing the frontier of spatial UI.
10 live roles
Synthesia
AI video generation — create studio-quality video from text
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
9 live roles
5+ designers
Figma
Collaborative design tool used by virtually every product design team.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
8 live roles
14+ designers
Oura
Smart ring for health and sleep tracking.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
8 live roles
Whoop
Wearable fitness tracker for performance optimization
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
8 live roles
Apple
Consumer electronics and software — iPhone, Mac, Vision Pro
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
7 live roles
Mercury
Business banking designed for startups. Modern, fast, beautiful.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
6 live roles
40+ designers
Plaud
AI-powered voice recorders that capture and summarize conversations.
Why we track it
Plaud is a rare bootstrapped hardware+AI success story hitting $250M revenue run rate in 3 years. They're aggressively hiring a full design org in SF — Head of Design, product designers, industrial designers, visual designers, and UX researchers — signaling serious investment in design as a differentiator. The hardware+software+AI intersection makes this an unusually interesting design environment.
6 live roles
Robinhood
Commission-free investing. Democratized finance.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
6 live roles
Atoms
Thoughtfully designed everyday shoes
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
6 live roles
Duolingo
Iconic language learning app with world-class brand and product design
Why we track it
Iconic consumer app, amazing brand design, Mig Reyes is VP Product Experience
6 live roles
8+ designers
Gusto
Payroll, benefits, and HR for modern small businesses
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
6 live roles
5+ designers
Miro
Visual collaboration platform for distributed teams
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
6 live roles
Suno
AI music creation — make songs from text prompts
Why we track it
AI music generation that went viral. Making songs from text prompts is genuinely fun — and the design challenge of making music creation accessible to everyone is compelling.
6 live roles
1+ designers
Lovable
AI app builder. Describe what you want, get working code.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
5 live roles
4+ designers
Ramp
Corporate card and spend management. One of the fastest-growing fintechs ever.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
5 live roles
Runway
AI-powered creative tools for video. Used in Oscar-winning productions.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
5 live roles
13+ designers
Superhuman
The fastest email experience ever made. $30/month because it's that good.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
5 live roles
Eight Sleep
Smart mattress and sleep technology
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
5 live roles
Chime
Mobile banking with clean, consumer-friendly design. Fintech for everyone.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
5 live roles
5+ designers
Profound
AI marketing intelligence helping brands control how they appear in AI answers.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
5 live roles
Midjourney
AI image generation. $500M+ ARR with ~40 people and zero funding.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
4 live roles
Monzo
UK's most design-forward digital bank.
Why we track it
The UK's most design-forward bank. Monzo's coral card and app design set the bar for neobanking — and they continue to invest heavily in design and research.
4 live roles
Superpower
Personalized health platform using biomarker data
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
4 live roles
Linear
Issue tracking that became the benchmark for product craft in SaaS.
Why we track it
The gold standard for product craft in SaaS. Linear's design quality is what every B2B tool aspires to — obsessive attention to detail, keyboard-first interactions, and a tiny team that ships like a much larger one.
3 live roles
13+ designers
Framer
Website builder blurring the line between design and code.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
3 live roles
Notion
Connected workspace for docs, wikis, and projects.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
3 live roles
3+ designers
Spotify
Music and podcast streaming. Wrapped alone proves design drives culture.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
3 live roles
23+ designers
Speak
An AI-powered language tutor used by millions to practice speaking.
Why we track it
Speak is one of the best-funded, best-designed consumer AI products around — a language tutor people use every day, backed by OpenAI and valued in the billions. A staff designer here works at real scale on an experience where interaction design directly drives whether people keep learning.
3 live roles
Gamma
AI-powered presentations and documents. $100M+ ARR.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
3 live roles
4+ designers
Hark
AI lab building personal intelligence with native hardware and multimodal AI.
Why we track it
Hark is building a new kind of AI device — personal intelligence that sees, hears, and remembers. Think Humane/Rabbit but with serious AI research chops. The hardware-software intersection makes this a rare design opportunity.
3 live roles
Known
Voice AI dating app that talks to users and matches them like a friend
Why we track it
Known is rethinking dating from first principles with a voice AI that conducts real conversations to understand compatibility — no swiping, no profiles. Backed by Forerunner (early Glossier, Warby Parker) and NFX, the team claims an 80% intro-to-date conversion rate, which is remarkable if it holds. The voice-first onboarding is a genuinely novel interaction pattern that makes this one worth watching from a design perspective.
3 live roles
Sesame
Voice AI company building conversational agents
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
3 live roles
Bubble
No-code platform for building web apps.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
3 live roles
1+ designers
Google DeepMind
AI research lab pushing the frontiers of artificial intelligence
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
3 live roles
Natural
Payments infrastructure with beautiful design
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
3 live roles
Anthropic
AI safety company building Claude, one of the most capable AI assistants.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
2 live roles
9+ designers
OpenAI
AI research lab behind ChatGPT, GPT-5, DALL-E, and Sora.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
2 live roles
11+ designers
Ambrook
Beautifully-crafted accounting and money software for farms and ag businesses.
Why we track it
Ambrook is one of the most craft-obsessed teams in fintech: accounting and money management built for farms and ag businesses, wrapped in a product and a publication (Ambrook Research) that designers openly admire. They hire design engineers, not just PMs, which tells you how seriously interface quality is taken here. A rare example of gorgeous design applied to an unglamorous, important industry.
2 live roles
Vercel
Frontend deployment platform and creators of Next.js.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
2 live roles
8+ designers
Conductor
Run a team of parallel coding agents on your Mac.
Why we track it
Conductor makes a beautifully crafted native Mac app for orchestrating parallel coding agents, already used by designers and engineers at Linear, Vercel, Notion and Stripe. It is a tiny in-person SF team obsessed with the human interface to AI — exactly the kind of craft-first product where design defines the whole experience.
2 live roles
Perplexity
AI-powered answer engine reimagining search. Clean, fast, citation-first.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
2 live roles
13+ designers
Cardboard
Agentic video editor in your browser — Premiere power, no learning curve.
Why we track it
Cardboard is building an agentic video editor that lives in the browser — the power of Premiere or DaVinci without the learning curve, going from raw footage to a finished video in seconds. For a founding designer it is a rare chance to define the interface for a whole new category of creative tooling.
2 live roles
Clay
Beautiful CRM for people who hate CRMs.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
2 live roles
Givebutter
The all-in-one fundraising platform nonprofits actually enjoy using.
Why we track it
Givebutter is the top-rated nonprofit fundraising platform, and it wins on experience: donation forms that convert four times the industry average because they are genuinely pleasant to use. Backing that up with a dedicated design engineer role shows a mission-driven company that believes delightful UX is how you move more money to good causes.
2 live roles
Granola
AI notepad that takes notes in your meetings.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
2 live roles
4+ designers
Jinba
Build enterprise AI workflows in plain language, no drag-and-drop.
Why we track it
Jinba lets enterprise teams compose AI workflows by describing them in natural language instead of wrestling with drag-and-drop builders — a hard interaction-design problem at real scale, with 40k+ daily users at major financial institutions. It is hiring both a founding design engineer and a product designer, a clear sign that making complex automation feel simple is central to the bet.
2 live roles
Phantom
Crypto wallet that made web3 feel approachable.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
2 live roles
Pocket
AI wearable that captures conversations and turns them into notes.
Why we track it
Pocket is building a compelling hardware+AI product in the ambient intelligence space — a screenless wearable that records and summarizes conversations. With 38k+ customers, strong reviews (4.89 stars), and a founding designer hire, they clearly care about design as a core differentiator. The hardware-software intersection and consumer focus make this an exciting design opportunity, though the category is still nascent and competitive.
2 live roles
Polymarket
Prediction market platform for real-world events
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
2 live roles
Resend
Email API built by developers, for developers
Why we track it
Email infrastructure built by Zeno Rocha with an obsessive focus on developer and designer experience. The docs, the brand, the product — everything at Resend looks intentional.
2 live roles
Omnea
AI-native enterprise procurement platform, trusted by Spotify & Monzo.
Why we track it
Omnea is one of Europe's fastest-growing B2B startups, turning high-stakes procurement workflows into something that actually feels good to use — and it backs that up with a real Product Design department rather than a lone designer. Designers here sit close to customers like Spotify and Monzo and shape genuinely complex enterprise UX.
2 live roles
Supabase
Open-source Firebase alternative — Postgres database, auth, storage
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
2 live roles
4+ designers
Blank Street
Tech-forward coffee chain with great brand design.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
2 live roles
Delphi
AI digital clones that let creators and experts scale themselves.
Why we track it
Building AI clones — digital versions of people that can talk, teach, and scale knowledge. Interesting design challenge around making AI feel personal and authentic.
2 live roles
Heidi Health
AI clinical assistant helping doctors with documentation
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
2 live roles
Interaction
Design studio behind Poke, a social interaction platform.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
2 live roles
Mage Legal
AI-powered legal diligence software for M&A document review
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
2 live roles
Retell AI
AI voice agents for contact centers with human-like conversation
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
2 live roles
Solve Intelligence
AI patent drafting and prosecution for legal teams
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
2 live roles
Away
Modern luggage and travel essentials
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
2 live roles
Airbnb
Global marketplace for stays and experiences. The canonical design-led company.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
15+ designers
Cursor
AI-powered code editor for developers.
Why we track it
The AI code editor that took over dev tooling overnight. Cursor (by Anysphere) has become the default for millions of developers — and they have a dedicated design team building the product experience. One of the most consequential developer tools of the decade, with a rare emphasis on polish and interaction design.
1 live role
West
Intentional living tools from the co-founders of Pinterest and Twitter.
Why we track it
Founded by Evan Sharp (Pinterest co-founder) and Biz Stone (Twitter co-founder), West is building Tangle — a life planning and reflection app. The pedigree is extraordinary: Sharp shaped one of the most influential visual platforms ever made, and the team's emphasis on soulful, human-centered design is baked into their DNA. A rare early-stage company where design isn't just valued — it's the founding thesis.
1 live role
2+ designers
Aside
AI browser that does real work across your email, docs, and internal tools.
Why we track it
Browsers are where product design becomes obsessive craft — Arc and The Browser Company proved a well-designed browser can build a cult following. Aside (YC F25) is a fresh-out-of-batch team building an agentic AI browser, and this is the founding design hire, meaning full ownership of look, feel, and interaction model.
1 live role
ElevenLabs
AI voice synthesis making any content speakable with natural-sounding speech.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Fort
A wearable that auto-tracks your strength workouts and coaches you.
Why we track it
Fort is building a physical product where the design bar is unforgiving — a wearable plus an app that has to make strength training feel effortless. A founding designer here owns hardware-adjacent industrial thinking and the whole software experience at once, the rare role where product and object design meet.
1 live role
Genmo
Open, state-of-the-art AI models for video generation.
Why we track it
Genmo builds the open-source frontier of AI video (the Mochi models) — the kind of generative-creative surface where interaction design is genuinely unsolved. For a founding product designer, it is a rare chance to define how people direct, edit and trust AI video, not just decorate it. NEA-backed and research-led.
1 live role
Nothing
Consumer electronics with bold, transparent design.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
14+ designers
Sekai
"TikTok for mini apps" — an AI platform for interactive short-form apps.
Why we track it
Consumer social is the deep end of product design — a place where visual identity, motion, and feel decide whether a product spreads. Sekai raised a $30M Series A to build a "TikTok for mini apps," and they are hiring their very first designer to define the entire aesthetic from scratch.
1 live role
Autumn
The operating system for independent hotels and small hospitality teams.
Why we track it
Autumn is building the software layer that lets small, independent hotels compete with the big chains, and it is making a founding design engineer one of its earliest hires. Vertical software this early rarely invests in craft — the fact that Autumn is means the product surface will be a real design playground. A chance to define the look and feel of an entire category.
1 live role
BoldVoice
An accent coaching app blending Hollywood coaches with AI feedback.
Why we track it
BoldVoice turns a genuinely hard problem — learning to speak more clearly — into a delightful daily consumer app. It is a small, craft-driven team where a senior designer shapes the entire experience, from lesson flow to the feel of real-time AI feedback.
1 live role
Confido
AI financial-operations software for CPG brands like OLIPOP and Dr. Squatch.
Why we track it
Confido runs the money behind the consumer brands filling your fridge — OLIPOP, Dr. Squatch, Momofuku — turning messy retail deductions and forecasts into one clean system. It is hiring both a founding staff designer and a design engineer to build an AI-ready design system from scratch, a signal that a fintech-adjacent company is treating design as foundational rather than decorative.
1 live role
Craft Docs
Designer-founded docs app with beautiful, native UI across platforms
Why we track it
Designer-founded productivity tool, beautiful UI, Apple Best Mac App 2021
1 live role
CrowdVolt
A StockX-style bid-ask marketplace for rave, festival and EDM tickets.
Why we track it
CrowdVolt brings a StockX-style bid-ask marketplace to live-event tickets, starting with the rave and EDM scene — a young, culture-forward audience that expects a product to look and feel as good as the shows. Hiring a design engineer into a 12-person team means the consumer experience is a first-class concern. Fun, expressive, community-driven design territory.
1 live role
Floot
The easiest way for non-coders to build real apps with AI.
Why we track it
Floot lets non-coders build serious web apps with AI, built from the ground up for AI by ex-Retool and ex-Asana engineers who obsessed over builder UX. It grew to 600+ paying customers during YC, and its founding designer will own the look and feel of everything users create.
1 live role
Infisical
Open-source platform for secrets, certificates and access management.
Why we track it
Infisical is the open-source secrets and access-management platform a huge swath of engineering teams now build on. It is staffing up design deliberately — separate Design Engineer roles for both platform and brand — a strong signal that a dev-infrastructure company is taking craft and identity seriously.
1 live role
Listen Labs
AI-moderated user research at massive scale.
Why we track it
Listen Labs runs thousands of AI-moderated interviews in parallel, giving brands like Canva, Microsoft and Anthropic research at a scale no human team could match. Backed by Sequoia and growing fast, its first founding designer will shape how humans and AI actually converse — a genuinely novel interface problem.
1 live role
Partiful
Event planning and invites that are actually fun to use
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Plain
Customer support tool built for modern product teams
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Pogo
A consumer app to monetize your own data and earn rewards. 3M+ users.
Why we track it
Pogo has quietly built one of the largest communities of purchase-verified consumers, and it is now designing a new B2B insights product on top of a beloved consumer app. Only the second product designer, so the creative direction of the whole platform is up for grabs.
1 live role
Sandbar
Building Stream, a wearable AI voice ring and conversational computer.
Why we track it
Building Stream, an AI voice ring — a wearable conversational computer. Team includes alumni from Meta, CTRL-labs, Apple, and Google. Hardware meets AI in a way that demands thoughtful design.
1 live role
Shopify
Commerce platform powering millions of online stores.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Watershed
Enterprise sustainability platform for carbon measurement and reduction
Why we track it
Strong brand and polished product in climate tech. Design-forward with clean UI, but no dedicated design team listed — roles may sit within Product or Engineering. Worth watching for future openings.
1 live role
Yarn
An all-in-one tool for making sales and marketing videos with AI.
Why we track it
Yarn is a Soho-based team with design pedigree from Clay, Shopify and Adobe, building AI video tooling where taste is the product. As founding product designer alongside an existing visual designer and strong front-end, this is a chance to define a craft-heavy GTM tool from the ground up.
1 live role
Flint
AI tutor and personalized learning platform for schools.
Why we track it
Flint (YC S23) puts an AI tutor in front of hundreds of thousands of students across 270+ schools, and is hiring its first full-time designer to own UI/UX end to end. Edtech rarely gets craft; this is a chance to bring real polish to classrooms and work directly with the founders.
1 live role
Loom
Video messaging for async work — record, share, done
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Replit
Online IDE and AI coding platform — build anything in your browser
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Voicepanel
An AI agent that automates user research via chat, voice and video.
Why we track it
Voicepanel is building the research tool product and design teams wish they had — continuous user feedback without scheduling a single interview. A founding designer here designs for designers, which raises the craft bar considerably.
1 live role
Deep24
AI coach for your entire life
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Ditto
Manage the words across your team's product, design to production
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Doji
Building tools for the next generation of digital commerce
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Fiddle
Supply chain planning platform for CPG brands
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Human Archive
Multimodal data provider for robotics and world modeling
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Jack & Jill
AI recruitment platform using conversational agents to match candidates.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Landeed
India's AI-powered platform for property verification and transactions
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Reframe
App using neuroscience to help people cut back on drinking
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Tennr
AI-powered healthcare referral automation
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Vitalize
Autonomous hospital operations
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Air
Creative ops platform for organizing brand assets.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Daylight Computer
A more caring computer — 60fps e-paper tablet
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Glossier
Beauty brand that redefined DTC with design-forward branding and community.
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
Pitch
Collaborative presentation software built for modern teams
Why we track it
A design-forward company with current evidence of investment in the craft.
1 live role
No live roles
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Interesting teams we keep checking. They stay secondary until fresh hiring evidence appears.
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