Hire a Founding Designer
The one who owns product, brand, and the marketing site — and ships.
Founding designers are generalists, not specialists
- Retained recruiters.
- LinkedIn Recruiter seats.
- Keyword-matched resumes.
- Templated InMails.
A founding designer has to do product, brand, marketing, and sometimes front-end code. Most senior designers from big companies have spent years specializing in one slice of that. They ship beautifully inside a design system someone else owns.
Design recruiters grade on polished Dribbble portfolios. But portfolio polish is a trailing signal. What you need is someone who can design a pricing page, a product flow, and a founder's keynote in the same week.
The founding designers you want are often working in-house at another startup, freelancing between gigs, or writing about craft on Substack. They're not scrolling Dribbble jobs.
How Superposition finds your founding designer
Generalist-first signal
We surface designers with 0-to-1 work — side projects, brand systems they shipped, marketing sites they wrote and designed.
Taste over titles
Our voice intake captures the specific aesthetic and product surface you need — not just 'Senior Product Designer.'
Reaches passive designers
Personalized outreach that references their actual work and explains the specific surface area they'd get to own.
Flat-rate pricing
$500/agent/month. No percentage-of-salary fees for a role that's notoriously hard to source.
Questions.
Answered.
Traditional recruiters charge 20–30% of first-year salary and run a generic search across multiple clients at once. Our agent goes deep on just your company — researching thousands of candidates and bringing back people who are specifically a fit, not just generically good.
$500 per agent per month operational, plus a 15% success fee on first-year base salary only — not equity, not bonus. No retainer, no upfront commitment, no percentage-of-OTE gotchas.
Most searches produce a curated shortlist within 2–3 weeks. Signed offers range from 5 to 12 weeks end-to-end, depending on role seniority and your interview cadence.
We offer a 90-day replacement guarantee. If they leave for any reason within 90 days, we re-run the search at no additional cost.
There's an initial voice intake — usually 30–45 minutes — where the agent learns your company, values, and the specific shape of who you're hiring. After that, you review curated candidates as they come in. No daily standups.
Find your founding designer.
Get a designer who can ship your product and your homepage in the same week.