Fabrion

Founding Designer at Fabrion (San Francisco, CA)

Fabrion· San Francisco, CA·

Role details

Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time

Job description

FOUNDING DESIGNER

Location: San Francisco Bay Area Type: Full-Time Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful equity (founding tier)

Backed by 8VC, we're building a world-class team to tackle one of the industry’s most critical infrastructure problems.

THE ROLE: FOUNDING DESIGNER

We’re looking for a sharp, systems-minded Product Designer to join our fast-growing product team. This is a high-impact opportunity to design tools that will reshape how the automotive world collaborates with its suppliers.

You’ll partner directly with our founding team, engineers, and industry experts to create a first-of-its-kind experience for the industrial enterprise — all powered by AI.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Define & Shape: Take ambiguous problems and shape them into structured product experiences. You’ll help define what features should be and how they should feel.
  • Design Workflows for AI Agents: Translate complex workflows into intuitive, action-driven user experiences — balancing automation with control, and AI intelligence with human oversight.
  • Think in Systems: Design components and flows that scale across multiple modules, teams, and use cases — from dashboards to agent actions to supplier profiles.
  • Collaborate Deeply: Work hand-in-hand with engineers, PMs, and AI researchers to build smart, usable, high-performance interfaces.
  • Own the Craft: Lead end-to-end design execution — from wireframes and research to polished prototypes and developer handoff.
  • Drive Feedback Loops: Conduct lightweight user research, gather customer feedback, and iterate quickly to improve usability and impact.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

  • 5+ years of experience designing B2B SaaS products, ideally in data-rich or workflow-heavy environments
  • Proven ability to lead the design of complex features end-to-end, especially those involving multiple user personas or integrations
  • Experience building (and contributing to) design systems for responsive web applications
  • Strong product sense — you think beyond the pixels to what drives user value and business outcomes
  • Familiarity with designing interfaces that involve automation, recommendations, or AI-driven elements
  • A portfolio that showcases systems thinking, interaction design, and final visual polish
  • Experience designing tools for industrial, logistics, or data-heavy products
  • Experience with data visualization, decision support tools, or building products for operational users

WHY JOIN FABRION

  • You’ll help define a new category of intelligent industrial infrastructure
  • You’ll work with top-tier talent from AI, enterprise software
  • You’ll have autonomy, ownership, and visibility across the company
  • You’ll design for real-world impact — not incremental UI, but end-to-end industry transformation

Why work at Fabrion

  • Culture: “High EQ, low ego, no assholes”; owners not renters; first-principles thinking; win with customer outcomes; score points, not yardage
  • Work modality: Hybrid – jobs are listed as “In-Office or Remote” with multiple locations (HQ at Pier 5, The Embarcadero, San Francisco; also remote options)
  • Technical stack: Kubernetes, Keycloak, Python, SQL, Docker, GraphQL, React, TypeScript, Terraform, Snowflake, Neo4j, OpenAI, MLflow, Grafana, Prometheus – cutting-edge AI/ML infrastructure
  • Impact: Solving mission-critical problems in global trade and manufacturing – value chains representing billions of dollars; opportunity to define a new industrial AI paradigm
  • Team: Small founding team with deep experience; opportunity to work across engineering, research, and product from the ground up

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