--- title: 'Founding Designer at Sava' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/founding-designer-sava-new-york-pxhee9wc917j' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-13' --- # Founding Designer at Sava - **Company:** Sava - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-01-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/sava/am9icG9zdDpB-cGwwx8NsWdyXjEgy88I ## Job description We are building a modern trust company. Trusts hold trillions of dollars and are one of the main ways wealth moves between generations. A trust company acts as a trustee for trusts, essentially a legal bridge between generations by holding assets and executing the specific wishes of a family. Sava is building a new full-stack, chartered trust company. Not just software for banks and lawyers, but the actual regulated entity. We have raised a $10M seed round from Y Combinator, Gradient Ventures, Max Mullen (Instacart founder), SV Angel and other great investors. ## What you will do You will define the product experience from the ground up. You will: - Design product surfaces that make complex financial and legal structures understandable - Build visual systems for ownership, distributions, and audit trails - Establish the product’s visual language, interaction patterns, and brand from the ground up - Turn complex requirements and workflows into a clear, high-confidence user experience - And much more. You will be our first designer. The design systems and product language you create will shape the company for years. ## Who we are looking for You are someone who likes hard problems that matter. You probably: - Have designed complex, data-heavy products before - Can go from a rough idea to a high-fidelity product on your own - Care deeply about clarity, structure, and visual trust signals - Have strong product judgment and taste in interfaces - Are comfortable on the technical side—you've probably used modern AI tools to spin up prototypes or side projects yourself - Are excited to expand your skill set beyond design into product more broadly You do not need prior experience in finance or trusts. The team You will work in person in NYC with the founders: - Nimit Maru, 2x YC founder, previously started and sold two companies to public companies, most recently Fullstack Academy - Rush Sadiwala, experienced serial founder with deep financial and operational experience We are building a small, high-caliber team. The first designers define the product culture of a company. This role is that. If you want to design something foundational, difficult, and important, you should talk to us. ## About Sava ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Team Sava is a Serbian software development and AI transformation partner that builds dedicated engineering teams for U.S. technology companies. - **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held) - **Headquarters**: Belgrade, Serbia (with a second office in Novi Sad) - **Founded**: Conflicting reports: 2018 per the company website, 2019 per LinkedIn - **Founders**: Vic Boaron (Managing Partner & Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Software Development, IT Services, AI Engineering, Staff Augmentation - **Target customers**: B2B; U.S. technology companies, SaaS platforms, fintech product teams, and enterprises seeking nearshore engineering talent - **Mission/purpose**: To solve the problem of offshore engineering that actually feels onshore — providing teams that communicate directly, ship on the client's schedule, and think like in-house engineers. The company embeds engineers directly into U.S. product teams with overlapping time zones, English-first workflows, and the same tools and sprint cadence as the client. ## Products & Services - **Staff Augmentation**: Dedicated developers, designers, and product engineers from Serbia’s top STEM talent. Flexible engagement models (project-based, part-time, or full-time) with team deployment in 30–60 days. - **AI Engineering**: LLM-powered workflow automation, RAG pipelines, custom model fine-tuning, and AI-integrated product features. - **Data & Analytics**: Dashboards, predictive models, and data-driven decision-making support. - **Product Strategy**: Technical roadmapping, architecture planning, and go-to-market support. - **Rapid Prototyping**: Design sprints led by senior engineers, from concept to functional MVP. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: 250+ engineers placed with U.S. technology companies since 2018; 95% year-over-year retention; 98% client satisfaction - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available. The company’s founder previously partnered with Microsoft Education on a venture (GoE — Game of Education). Client names are not disclosed publicly. - **Growth Signals**: - Active job postings (3 as of search date): Mobile Game QA Engineer, Data Scientist, Lead AI Video Creator - Offices in Belgrade (Dorcol) and Novi Sad - Expanding AI development capability on top of existing engineering delivery - Conflicting data: LinkedIn reports current headcount of 10 employees (-33.3% YoY), while the company website emphasizes a track record of 250+ engineers placed since 2018 — likely reflecting cumulative placements rather than current internal headcount. ## Competitive Advantages - **Top-tier talent selection**: Engineers are sourced from the top 1% of Serbian STEM talent and must pass a multi-stage technical assessment and cultural interview before joining client teams. - **Time-zone alignment**: 4–6 hours of daily overlap with U.S. Eastern Time, enabling real-time collaboration. - **High retention and satisfaction**: 95% year-over-year retention and 98% client satisfaction rate. - **Embedded team model**: Engineers work directly in the client’s Slack, sprint cadence, and tools, with the same accountability as in-house staff. - **Founder experience**: Vic Boaron has built and exited companies across logistics, fintech, and edtech, including founding Fregata Logistics (acquired by Katz Online) and leading Frequants as CEO. ## Strategic Focus - **AI transformation**: Positioning as a transformation partner for the AI era — from strategy to execution, embedding AI into core business processes. - **Scaling AI engineering**: Building LLM workflows, fine-tuning pipelines, and agentic systems on the foundation of existing engineering delivery. - **Continued U.S. market expansion**: Placing more Serbian engineers with U.S. tech companies, with flexible engagement models and rapid team deployment. ## Why Work Here - **Compensation**: Above-market salaries benchmarked against international standards, not local averages. - **Growth investment**: Annual learning budget for conferences, certifications, and courses; regular internal tech talks and access to AI skill development programs. - **Flexible work**: Hybrid setup with offices in Belgrade (Dorcol) and Novi Sad; employees choose where they do their best work. - **Engineering culture**: Work directly with U.S. product teams on real products used by thousands; code ships to production. Emphasis on ownership — engineers are expected to ask the right questions, flag risks early, and ship code they would put their name on. - **Work environment caveat**: LinkedIn employer rating is 2.4/5 (9 reviews), with low scores for compensation (2.4), culture (2.4), and career growth (2.3). This conflicts with the company’s own claims of high satisfaction and retention; job seekers should weigh both signals. ## Sources 1. [team-sava.com](https://team-sava.com/) 2. [team-sava.com/careers](https://team-sava.com/careers) 3. [team-sava.com/about](https://team-sava.com/about) 4. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/team-sava) 5. 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