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title: 'Founding Product Designer at Noise Labs'
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# Founding Product Designer at Noise Labs

- **Company:** Noise Labs
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/noise-labs/cf251165-a1a3-4386-930b-ce5879a073bd

## Job description

Noise exists because culture should be shaped by the people who care about it. We're building a platform where curators and communities surface and value the trends becoming relevant around the world.

We're a team of 10 based in SoHo, New York. We look for people with great taste who can ship code, design or convey user needs into delightful products.

## Responsibilities

- Own design end-to-end and set the bar for taste, craft, and product quality across Noise.
- 2/3 design, 1/3 engineering, you lead with product intuition and ship with code
- Own and ship design end-to-end: concept, prototype, production
- Define and evolve the visual language across web, product, and brand surfaces
- Build motion and interaction systems that feel intentional and alive
- Know when to use the design system, when to break it, and when to evolve it
- Maintain and extend design systems

## Qualifications

- Comfortable delivering the right artifact at the right time: from Figma mockups to production code with Claude Code, Codex, or your harness of choice
- Delivers feedback with candor and takes it without ego
- Strong design fundamentals and attention to detail: typography, layout, color, composition
- Actionable taste for interaction details: motion, timing, affordance

Minimum full-time salary of $160,000-$210,000. Disclosure in accordance with New York City's Pay Transparency Law. Full Time employees at Noise Labs are also eligible for other compensation elements, including equity and benefits, dependent on the position type.

## About Noise Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Noise is a trading platform where users go long and short on contracts about trends, brands, and ideas to bet on cultural relevance.
- **Entity Type**: Private (seed stage; raised $7.1M in Seed round, January 2026)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York (SoHo), United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Gabriel Carafa (Co‑Founder, CEO) and Liangchen Z (Co‑Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial technology / Consumer trading / Cultural analytics
- **Target customers**: B2C – individuals (curators, trend‑followers, traders) interested in speculating on the cultural relevance of trends, brands, and ideas.
- **Mission or purpose**: “Culture should be shaped by the people who care about it” — building an efficient market for what matters next.

## Products & Services
- **[Noise Trading Platform]**: A programmatic liquidity platform that transforms global narratives into tradeable financial instruments. Prices combine real‑time social data with trading activity to produce an objective, continuously updating measure of cultural relevance. (Type: Consumer trading platform / exchange)
- **[Brane]**: An open‑source project announced in January 2026 (specific product details not yet publicly available). (Type: Open‑source software)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $7.1M Seed round (announced January 14, 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not named in available sources; the seed round was announced on the company’s news page.
- **Growth Signals**: The platform launched in beta in March 2026; a team of ~10 employees; headcount growth of +33.3% monthly per LinkedIn (though absolute number is small). Two open‑source initiatives (Brane) and active hiring in engineering and trading roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Novel concept** – first‑mover in creating a regulated‑style exchange for cultural relevance.
- **Data moat** – proprietary blend of real‑time social data and trading activity to produce a unique “relevance score.”
- **Small, high‑agency team** – ability to move fast and iterate without bureaucracy; culture emphasises debate, commitment, and ownership.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion** – moving from beta to a fully‑featured trading platform with multiple contract types.
- **Growth** – scaling the user base through the “discover & curate” consumer angle.
- **Talent acquisition** – actively hiring for senior engineering, design, and trading roles to build out the core team.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High‑agency, risk‑tolerant environment. “Pedigree matters less than risk tolerance.” The team values debate followed by full commitment once a decision is made.
- **Location**: Office in SoHo, New York City; role is likely in‑office (stated “New York City” for all open positions).
- **Team size**: Small (~10 people) – direct impact on product and strategy.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company is well‑funded for a seed‑stage startup and offers the opportunity to shape a new asset class.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on “applying ideas across disciplines”; open‑source release (Brane) signals a builder‑focused engineering ethos.

## Sources
1. [noise.xyz – Homepage](https://noise.xyz/)
2. [noise.xyz – Careers page](https://noise.xyz/careers)
3. [LinkedIn – Noise Labs company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/noise-xyz)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com – Noise Labs open positions](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/noise-labs)

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