--- title: 'Product Design Lead at Complete' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-design-lead-complete-san-francisco-5mzxk9de0d6p' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Product Design Lead at Complete - **Company:** Complete - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Posted:** 2022-04-19 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/complete/76e84d44-df9b-4229-9f2c-a71506a8c84a ## Job description Complete is on a mission to make compensation a winning advantage for the world's highest-impact companies. We are breaking compensation workflows out from spreadsheets and bringing them into the 21st century — think leveling and compensation cycle planning, total rewards statements for employees, interactive candidate offers [sample https://app.complete.so/offer/62b77775-a050-4ed8-b368-70e722c3021b], and much more! WHY COMPLETE? We realize that Compensation is a key determinant to a company's success (and their biggest spend!). Yet, enterprises lack the expertise to build and operate a defensible compensation strategy, making it one of the most costly mistakes to their financial and operational efficiency. We believe that companies with creative compensation strategies do and will continue to win. Our customers include highly impactful startups like Render, Linear, and Cortex, all the way to world-class enterprises like Roblox. Complete is backed by Accel and YC. We're also lucky to count technology leaders and operators like Will Larson (CTO of Carta), Eric Sagar (COO of Plaid), Mathilde Collin (CEO of Front) as our angels and/or advisors. WHO ARE WE? - 🎯 We’re exceptionally product minded builders. We obsess over quality and believe that software built in the 21st century should not require product trainings. - 💜 Our culture is best described as low ego and painstakingly fast. Companies do not need big teams to prove PMF — they need focus. - 🥇We’re a small team of 10 with exceptional product and business acumen. It’s allowed us to compete and consistently win against competitors. - ⭐ Our customers include the likes of startups like Linear and Render to public companies like Roblox, and we’re adding amazing logos to this list every day. - 🏢 We work in person in SF, 4-5 days/week. We believe that bringing the most talented folks together in one room is the fastest way to win as a startup. WHAT DO WE VALUE? Complete is at an exciting inflection point and we’re looking for a Product Design Lead to help scale us to a $XXM+ in ARR. You'll be a great fit if you like to move with urgency and high agency. We're builders obsessed with customer outcomes and love challenging the status quo. At a high level, there are three areas you can expect to lean on at Complete: - Ownership: We need experienced product designer who can own and grow entire lines of businesses end-to-end. - Autonomy: We value autonomy and believe that a small team can come together to create magic! - Scale: We're scaling! To new countries, to X0,000+ users, and to high-profile logos. We’re actively winning in the enterprise segment, which means working on deep and interesting problems like revamping our customizability, design language, cohesion between products, and so on. WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? - Excellent visual and/or interaction design skills. - Systems-thinker with the ability to think beyond the pixels and design. - Demonstrated ability to help a team navigate ambiguity, set vision and strategy for global products. - Strong communication and stakeholder management skills. - 💪 Bonus: entrepreneurial experience. - 💪 Bonus: takes ownership to help the team succeed. - 💪 Bonus: experience with enterprise AND consumer applications. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? - Build the design culture and lead the design function for Complete. - Partner with cross-functional teams and drive the design voice from idea to launch. - Identify user needs and translate business goals into product opportunities. Collaborate with product and founders to incorporate user and customer feedback. - Facilitate concept explorations to drive bold and innovative thinking. - Interpret and distill complex strategies and requirements, and visually depict the ideal user experience. - Define product information architecture. Create wireframes, library of templates, and prototypes that illustrate key product interactions. Proficient in high-fidelity prototyping tools (Figma, motion design platform of choice). - Have deep understanding of design systems and interaction patterns to ensure brand, visual and interactive cohesion across products, platforms, and scenarios. - Express and execute realistic behaviors, interactions, movements and materials through interactive prototypes — keeping in mind accessibility. - Proactively build strong relationships with engineering partners, researchers, writers, and fellow product teams throughout the design process. WHAT DOES THE INTERVIEW PROCESS LOOK LIKE? - Intro: You'll start with a 15 minute call with our CEO (Rani) to get to know each other better followed by a 45 minute project review. - Half day onsite: We'll bring you in for a half-day onsite + lunch. We're very flexible on the schedule and can do late afternoons/evenings to accommodate your availability. - [Optional] Work trial: Here's where it gets interesting: we'll give you an offer, and an option to work with us in the office for anywhere from a day to a full week (depending on your availablility) to get a feel of what it'll be like working with us. If you love your first week, you can officially accept your offer (we know you would 😉) READY? APPLY BELOW. WE CAN'T WAIT TO MEET YOU! ## About Complete ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Complete provides an AI-native compensation platform that automates offer letters, total rewards statements, leveling and bands, and cycle planning for HR teams. - **Entity Type**: Private (YC W22 batch, seed-backed by Accel) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Rani Mavram ## Core Business - Primary industry: HR Technology / Compensation Management - Target customers: B2B – HR, People, and Total Rewards teams at growth-stage to enterprise companies - Mission or purpose: "Make compensation a winning advantage for the world's highest-impact companies" – breaking compensation workflows out of spreadsheets and into a modern, transparent platform. ## Products & Services - **[Compy AI Agent Suite]**: A set of autonomous agents that handle compensation busywork. - **Offer Agent**: Pulls candidate data from ATS, matches to salary bands/benchmarks, and generates personalized interactive offers. - **Total Rewards Agent**: Creates individual compensation statements (salary, equity, benefits, bonuses) for employees. - **Band Builder Agent**: Synthesizes benchmark data, models progression curves, and suggests draft compensation bands. - **Cycle Prep Agent**: Syncs employee data, flags retention risks, identifies pay equity gaps, and pre-populates recommendations for merit cycles. - **[Compensation Planning Platform]**: Spreadsheet-free planning with scenario modeling, approval chains, and planner education. - **[Leveling & Bands]**: Tool to construct, edit, and match levels to benchmarking data, with visual employee mapping. - **[Interactive Offers Portal]**: Lets candidates visualize long-term value (equity, salary, benefits, refreshes) during the offer stage. - **[Integrations]**: Over 100 live integrations with HRIS, ATS, and equity systems via Merge. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed (private, early stage) - **Key Metric**: Total funding amount not publicly stated; backed by Accel and Y Combinator; notable angel investors include Will Larson (CTO of Carta), Eric Sagar (COO of Plaid), Mathilde Collin (CEO of Front). - **Notable Customers**: Startups like Linear and Brex, public companies like Roblox. - **Growth Signals**: Small team of <10 people; actively winning in the enterprise segment; scaling to new countries and X0,000+ users; team size growing from 5 (as of YC profile) to larger headcount. ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-Native Architecture**: The entire platform is built around autonomous agents (Compy) that eliminate manual spreadsheet work, reducing cycle prep from weeks to overnight. - **Real-Time Data Sync**: Integrates with 100+ ATS/HRIS/equity systems, providing a live source of truth without manual data entry. - **Holistic Approach**: Covers the full compensation lifecycle – from offer generation to internal total rewards education to planning – in one unified platform. - **High-Profile Backing & Advisors**: Advisors have led multi-billion-dollar compensation programs globally; investors include top-tier VCs and experienced operators. ## Strategic Focus - Scaling the platform to $XXM+ ARR by expanding into enterprise accounts and new geographies. - Deepening AI agent capabilities to automate more compensation workflows (e.g., compliance, benchmarking updates). - Enhancing customizability, authorization, and observability to meet enterprise requirements. - Continuing to hire senior product and engineering talent to maintain a small, high-agency team. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Low ego, painstakingly fast, product-obsessed builders. The team operates with high autonomy and urgency. - **Work Model**: In-person at a San Francisco office near Embarcadero BART, 4–5 days/week. The company believes in whiteboarding and real-time collaboration. - **Engineering Focus**: Engineers own entire product lines end-to-end. Tech stack includes Python (Django), Postgres, GraphQL (Strawberry), React, and modern AI tooling (Claude Code, Cursor). - **Impact**: Early-stage ground-floor opportunity; already powering compensation for high-profile companies. - **Perks**: Equity for everyone (literal equity in the company as well as equitable workspace), mission-driven culture focused on transparency and education. ## Sources 1. [complete.so](https://www.complete.so/) 2. [complete.so/about](https://www.complete.so/about) 3. [ycombinator.com/companies/complete/jobs](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/complete/jobs) 4. 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