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title: 'Product Designer at ProhostAI'
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# Product Designer at ProhostAI

- **Company:** ProhostAI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2024-05-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/prohost-ai/am9icG9zdDoE7GzZ5krTs1kbzgMADJJk

## Job description

About [ProhostAI](https://www.prohost.ai/): We are a Y Combinator backed company building an AI-powered operating system for hosts on Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms. We are on a mission to make every host a 5-star host by automating and improving their operations with the help of AI. Our founding team consists of highly experienced technical leaders from Airbnb, Dropbox, Harvard and Yale.

## About the Role

We are looking to expand our small but mighty team with an experienced product designer with great attention detail, sharp product sense and a passion for crafting delightful and thoughtful UX. We are designing novel AI-powered user experiences and workflows so creativity and interest in working with AI is a big plus. In this role, you will have the opportunity to own the end-to-end design process for key features of our AI-powered host operating system.

As our first full time Product Designer, you will:

- Work closely with the founding team to define the product vision, strategy and roadmap
- Lead the UX and UI design for core product features from ideation through implementation
- Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity designs to communicate design solutions
- Partner with engineering to ensure designs are implemented to spec and the final product delivers an exceptional user experience
- Conduct user research and usability testing to validate designs and gather insights
- Contribute to building our design system and evolving our design processes as the team grows
- Provide input on product direction and help shape the design culture at an early stage

## What We're Looking For

- 3+ years of product design experience, ideally in B2B SaaS and/or marketplaces
- Strong portfolio showcasing end-to-end product design work across web and mobile
- Expertise in interaction design, visual design, and design systems
- Highly proficient with Figma
- User-centered design approach and experience with user research and usability testing methods
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Ability to operate autonomously in an ambiguous and fast-paced startup environment
- Passion for the short-term rental space and empathy for hosts is a big plus
- Contractor role with potential for full-time conversion
- This role will require working PST hours
- We have a preference for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay Area who are able to come into our office in San Francisco on a hybrid basis 3-4 days a week, although exceptions can be made on a case by case basis.

## Why Join Us

- Help establish the design foundation at a promising early-stage startup
- Work directly with experienced technical founders to bring an ambitious product vision to life
- Contribute to a product that will empower hosts and elevate the guest experience
- Competitive compensation and flexible work arrangements

To apply, please send your resume, portfolio, and a brief note on why you're excited about ProhostAI. We look forward to hearing from you!

Compensation: $80K - $180K Annually

## About ProhostAI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: ProhostAI is an AI-powered operating system that automates guest messaging, cleaning scheduling, maintenance tasks, and upsells for short-term rental hosts and property managers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (YC S24, seed-stage startup)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Bill Ulammandakh (CEO, ex-Airbnb Staff Data Scientist) and Andrew Lawson (CTO, ex-Dropbox)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Vacation rental technology (PropTech / Hospitality SaaS)
- **Target customers**: B2B – Airbnb hosts, property managers, and short-term rental operators (from 1 to 300+ properties)
- **Mission**: “Make every Airbnb host a 5-star host by automating and improving their operations with the help of AI.”

## Products & Services
All major offerings are SaaS-based and accessible via web, iOS, and Android apps.

- **AI Messaging**: Instant AI replies to guest messages, with optional Autopilot for fully automated responses. Learns from listing info, messaging history, and local data.
- **AI Workflows**: Create automated workflows (e.g., send messages, assign cleanings, notify team) by describing the process in plain language.
- **AI Employees**: Specialized AI agents with defined roles, schedules, tools, and boundaries for guest messages, tasks, devices, cleanings, and operations.
- **AI Phone**: Handles voice calls with full context, recording, transcription, and summarization, linked to the guest conversation.
- **AI Tasks**: Automatically creates maintenance tasks from guest messages and reviews, with auto-assignment and status tracking.
- **Cleanings**: Automatic scheduling, assignment, timestamped photos, checklists, and autopay for cleaners (multilingual).
- **AI Upsells**: Detects gap nights and sends auto-upsell offers to guests, with customizable rules.
- **Guest CRM**: Unified guest profiles with stay history, spending insights, and contact details across all properties.
- **Direct Booking Website**: Lets hosts launch a professional booking site with Stripe payments and direct guest relationships.
- **API & MCP**: One REST API and MCP server for developers and AI agents to integrate with ProhostAI.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Total funding: **Conflicting reports** – LinkedIn states $1.59M (Pre-Seed $1.5M in May 2024; Seed $125K in Aug 2024); the company website states “raised $2.6M from Y Combinator and Pear VC.”
  - 7,500+ properties managed, spanning 80+ countries
  - 260K+ AI messages sent, 13K+ cleanings completed, 38K+ tasks completed
  - Team size: 5 employees (4 according to LinkedIn, with +150% YoY headcount growth)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (YC S24), Pear VC; official partnership with Airbnb
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid early adoption (7,500+ properties in <2 years), expansion to 80+ countries, official Airbnb integration, and a growing engineering team.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Official Airbnb partnership** – a rare integration that gives reliability and direct access to the platform.
- **All-in-one platform** – replaces 5+ separate tools (messaging, scheduling, tasks, upsells, guidebooks) in a single app.
- **Native mobile apps** (iOS & Android) – a differentiator for hosts managing on the go.
- **AI-first architecture** – from AI messaging to AI Employees, the product is built around agentic AI, not just rule-based automation.
- **Founding team from Airbnb & Dropbox** – deep domain expertise in both hospitality and large-scale tech.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue building the “AI operating system” for short-term rentals, with emphasis on expanding AI Employees, phone capabilities, and integrations.
- Grow the property management segment (1–300+ properties) and international reach.
- Develop the API/MCP ecosystem to attract developers and third-party AI agents.

## Why Work Here
- **Early-stage impact**: As a founding engineer, you’ll shape the product and architecture from the ground up.
- **Tiny, high-caliber team**: Currently 5 people, with alumni from Airbnb, Dropbox, Harvard, and Yale.
- **YC S24 backing**: Access to YC’s network, resources, and mentorship.
- **Remote-friendly**: Hiring for US-based remote roles (San Francisco HQ optional).
- **Competitive comp**: Founding Engineer salary range listed at $100K–$180K.
- **Culture**: “Small but mighty” – emphasis on ownership, speed, and solving real host pain points.
- **Cutting-edge AI**: Work on agentic AI, natural language workflows, and real-time automation in a high-growth vertical.

## Sources
1. [prohost.ai/about](https://www.prohost.ai/about)
2. [prohost.ai](https://www.prohost.ai/)
3. [jobs.gem.com/prohost-ai](https://jobs.gem.com/prohost-ai/am9icG9zdDpNfWVfiilTK9QCI9HRrohB)
4. [ycombinator.com/companies/prohostai/jobs](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/prohostai/jobs)
5. [linkedin.com/company/prohostai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/prohostai)

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