Lead Product Designer (UI/UX)

About Ecopass

Ecopass is a phygital intelligence platform/product cloud, embedded hardware gives products a digital identity, syncing the physical and digital worlds for both brands and the people who own them, built for the category arriving with global regulations.

What you will own

The design world of Ecopass - a coherent system across operator dashboards and consumer flows, end to end. Strategic direction over the brand surfaces around it.

The first Ecopass design system - built from scratch, scaled. A system with a point of view, not assembled from defaults.

End-to-end UI/UX for both sides - the B2B platform operators run on, the B2C experience users live in.

The platform leads the first six months; that is where the new world is proven.

The translation of a complex, multi-actor system into interfaces that feel obvious. You take a large, unclear problem and return it structured.

A point of view on where product design is heading. Push us toward what's next, not behind it.

How we will work

You will be the first and only designer for the first year. This is deliberate the world we are building needs a single hand before it can be handed to others.

You will work directly with the founder as a partner, not receiving briefs, but shaping them.

You bring the vision and ship it. Strategy and execution are not two roles here; they are the same role.

You will be exposed. Decisions visible, defended, tested.

Not a generic SaaS product, not the AI-native aesthetic of the moment.

What you make will be unmistakably Ecopass - or it will not be ours.

Who this is for

4+ years of full-time product design experience with shipped work - the kind you can walk us through decision by decision.

Built a design system in production from the ground up. Contribution to an existing one is not the same thing.

Intellectual rigor - however you built it. We do not care about the path; we care about the depth.

Think clearly under pressure, defend a position without hardening into it.

A portfolio that shows decisions - how you reduced ambiguity, what you cut, why.

A visual instinct that is current, considered, and unmistakably yours fluent in the conventions you choose to break.

The temperament for solo work at high stakes. You are your own critic before anyone else is.

You can sit alone with an unsolved problem for a week and still come out with conviction.

What we offer

Compensation calibrated to the seniority and ownership of the role. Meaningful ESOP for exceptional fit, sized to the role's seniority and impact. First 2-month project engagement, milestone-based, that flows directly into the full-time role.

Hiring Process

Intro → portfolio → take-home case (quick piece) → on-site → final with investors.

Three weeks to close.

Send CV, LinkedIn, portfolio, and a 3–5 sentence answer to:

Show us a product UI you believe is badly designed today, and how you would rethink it - what you would cut first, and why.

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