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# Lead Product Designer at GetWhys

- **Company:** GetWhys
- **Location:** Portland, OR / Bozeman, MT / Boise, ID / New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-08-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/getwhys/jobs/4356081009

## Job description

Location: This is a hybrid role. Our hubs are Portland, New York City, Boise, and Bozeman. Reports to: CPO Compensation: $190,000–$210,000 base salary, plus equity

Who you’d be joining

AI has made it much faster for go-to-market teams to create content, campaigns, and sales materials. But speed only helps if the work reflects what buyers actually think.

GetWhys helps teams check their work against insights from real B2B buyers. Those insights come from our proprietary buyer intelligence database, built from research interviews, and every one can be traced back to its original source.

We’re VC-backed and growing quickly—our ARR grew 10x in 2025. Our customers include Docusign, Intel, Commvault, Verizon, and Twilio. We’re a team of nearly 20 and are hiring across the company.

We’re a hybrid company, with hubs in Portland, New York City, Boise, and Bozeman. Our strong preference is to have someone in one of those hubs. We like working together, we take the work seriously, and we also expect people to have lives outside of it. We have artists, chefs, cyclists, dancers, and ultramarathoners on our team, and we’d love for you to bring yourself to it.

## The role

We’re hiring our lead product designer.

You’ll own design across the product, from early ideas through the details that make it into customers’ hands. You’ll also help us establish the design practices, systems, and standards we don’t yet have.

The product itself presents an unusual design challenge. Some customers work directly in GetWhys to build and manage their company’s buyer intelligence. Many users instead encounter that intelligence inside tools they already use, such as Claude and Slack.

You’ll help us make those experiences feel like parts of one coherent product.

We’re a highly autonomous team. We move quickly, make judgment calls with incomplete information, and don’t have a mature design process yet. We’re looking for someone who likes that stage: a hands-on designer who can do excellent work while introducing just enough structure to help the whole team get better.

## What you’ll do

- Lead product design from early exploration through final implementation
- Improve the usability and visual quality of our existing product
- Design experiences across the GetWhys platform and the tools where our intelligence appears
- Build a practical design system that helps us move faster and stay consistent
- Work closely with product and engineering to decide what we build, not just how it looks
- Give clear feedback, explain your reasoning, and raise the quality bar across the company
- Be a strong partner for product in proactively answering questions for engineering
- Shape our approach to UX and UI
- Help lay the foundation for a future design team while remaining deeply hands-on

## Who you are

- You are passionate about something outside of work. We believe everyone works best when they have multiple interests
- You have ~5 or more years of product design experience
- You have strong portfolio showing thoughtful end-to-end product work and excellent visual craft
- You have experience designing complex software, workflows, or systems—not just isolated screens
- You’re okay being wrong. An imperfect decision early or on time is better than the right decision too late
- You want to work with an extremely high performing team.
- You have experience with AI tools, both within and without the design process
- You can turn ambiguous problems into clear, useful experiences
- You demonstrate strong judgment and the confidence to advocate for your point of view
- You enjoy a collaborative working style: you can push back, explain why, and change your mind when the evidence calls for it
- You have experience building or contributing to design systems
- You’re comfortable working independently in a fast-moving environment

Experience as an early designer at a startup is a plus.

This is probably a particularly good fit if you enjoy doing the work yourself and want meaningful influence over both the product and how a company approaches design. If you’re primarily looking to manage a team, it’s probably not the right role.

## Benefits

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (90% of your deductible, 75% of your dependents')
- 401(k) with a 3% company match
- Unlimited PTO, with an expected minimum of 10 business days each year
- 18 company holidays
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- A permanently remote-friendly workplace with no required number of office days (though if you live in a hub, we hope you’ll join us in person sometimes!)
- Regular team and company-wide in-person gatherings
- Meaningful equity and the opportunity to define design at a growing company

## About GetWhys

## Company Overview

- **One-liner**: GetWhys provides an AI‑powered customer research and messaging platform that turns B2B buyer interviews into shippable marketing and sales assets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed / Series A stage; latest venture round announced April 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Boise, Idaho, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Viet Phan, Philippe Boutros, Tyler Honsinger

## Core Business

- **Primary industries**: Market research, customer insights, competitive intelligence, content generation, artificial intelligence.
- **Target customers**: B2B product marketing (PMM) and go‑to‑market (GTM) teams at companies like DocuSign, Intel, and Verizon.
- **Mission / purpose statement**: “Turn your customers’ voices into messaging frameworks, web copy, and sales enablement – so everything you ship is backed by real insights, not internal assumptions.” [getwhys.io](https://www.getwhys.io/)

## Products & Services

- **Compass**: An AI‑trained platform that delivers immediate access to real customer perspectives on B2B software vendors, pricing, and implementation. Helps teams streamline decision‑making without waiting for traditional research cycles. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/get-whys)
- **InsightDB API**: An API that embeds context‑rich intelligence into applications, enabling other tools to leverage GetWhys’ proprietary interview dataset. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/get-whys)
- **Always‑On Research Service**: Unlimited research requests with source‑linked answers within 10 business days – no per‑project fees. [getwhys.io](https://www.getwhys.io/)

## Market Standing

- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric (Total Funding)**: ~$8.2–$8.5 M (conflicting reports – [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getwhys) reports $8.2 M; [Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/getwhys/__Olq0OnsZCO7vNBkr5-nNtDYvaxpQQjAu8WihLucEUJ4) lists $8.5 M).
- **Latest Funding**: $5.2 M venture round (April 2026) with six investors. Previous seed round of $2.8 M led by NEXT Frontier Capital (February 2025). [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/get-whys)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: NEXT Frontier Capital, EPIC Ventures, Tuesday Capital, Capital Eleven, Portland Seed Fund.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Website traffic: 9,065 monthly visits (up 82 % month‑over‑month). [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getwhys)
  - Signed enterprise customers such as DocuSign, Intel, Verizon. [getwhys.io/about](https://www.getwhys.io/about)
  - Headcount of 18 employees as of mid‑2026 (see note on headcount change below); distributed across Boise, Bozeman, Portland, and NYC.

> **Note**: LinkedIn reports a –100 % year‑over‑year headcount change (‑13 people). This likely reflects a data anomaly or reclassification rather than an actual negative growth; the company appears to be actively hiring.

## Competitive Advantages

- **Proprietary interview dataset**: Thousands of real B2B buyer interviews – no scraped reviews, survey panels, or synthetic personas. Every insight is source‑linked, giving PMMs defensible proof. [getwhys.io](https://www.getwhys.io/)
- **Source‑linked insights**: Eliminates the “how do you know?” debate by tying every claim to a real interview.
- **Rapid request‑to‑insight cycle**: 10 business days for custom interview requests, enabling teams to research gaps without slowing down launches.
- **GTM‑focused output**: Designed specifically for product marketing, not just research input – helps turn insights directly into messaging frameworks, web copy, and battle cards.

## Strategic Focus

- **Scaling the Insight‑Driven GTM Platform**: The $5.2 M round is earmarked for accelerating platform growth and expanding the sales team. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/get-whys)
- **Hub‑based hybrid model**: Building office hubs in Boise, Bozeman, Portland, and NYC while remaining “historically remote”. [getwhys.io/about](https://www.getwhys.io/about)
- **Deepening vertical expertise**: Continuing to serve enterprise B2B software buyers, with plans to broaden into adjacent segments.

## Why Work Here

- **Culture highlights**: Described as “solutions‑oriented” with trust over micromanagement, clear ownership, and long‑term thinking. [getwhys.io/about](https://www.getwhys.io/about)
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Historically remote company, now establishing hybrid offices in four U.S. hubs – Boise (GTM team), Bozeman (Product), Portland (Engineering), and NYC (Engineering). [getwhys.io/about](https://www.getwhys.io/about)
- **Notable benefits**:
  - Healthcare, dental, and vision (90 % covered for employee, 75 % for dependents)
  - 401(k) with 3 % company match
  - Unlimited PTO (recommended minimum of 10 business days)
  - 12 weeks paid parental leave
  - 18 company holidays
  - Regular team and company‑wide in‑person gatherings
- **Engineering culture**: Engineering teams are based in Portland and NYC; the Product team sits in Bozeman. Tech stack includes HubSpot, Docker, OpenAI, Salesforce, and JavaScript.

## Sources

1. [getwhys.io – Homepage](https://www.getwhys.io/)
2. [getwhys.io – About page](https://www.getwhys.io/about)
3. [LinkedIn – GetWhys Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getwhys)
4. [CB Insights – Get Whys Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/get-whys)
5. [Tracxn – GetWhys Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/getwhys/__Olq0OnsZCO7vNBkr5-nNtDYvaxpQQjAu8WihLucEUJ4)

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