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Clearspace

Eliminate compulsive phone usage

Founding Designer at Clearspace

$150K - $170K*0.50% - 1.00%*San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Design, Product design
Experience
1+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
Skills
Figma
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Royce Branning
Royce Branning
Founder
Royce Branning
Royce Branning
Founder

About the role

About Clearspace

Clearspace is building the intentionality layer of the internet. Our
mission is to build technology as effective at protecting human
attention as social media is at exploiting it (infinite scrolling,
short-form feeds, manipulative notifications, etc). Our category
defining mobile app has been featured on Huberman Lab, New York Times
Wirecutter, NPR Marketplace, Forbes, TBPN.

People that want a better relationship with their devices have
nowhere to turn except for willpower. We are building an agent that
achieves this on all devices by processing and filtering network
traffic based on natural language rules.

About The Role

We are looking for a lead designer with strong aesthetic intuition
and an obsession with designing through every inch of the user
journey. You will be asked to bring pixel perfect designs to life
across several different platforms, if you don't love the process of
designing this is not the role for you. You will be talking to users
often and asked to speak to the overall brand direction at
Clearspace.

Responsibilities

  * Design agent-first UI/UX patterns for the Clearspace platform
  * Create a design system that spans across mobile, web, desktop
  * Work directly with the founders and shape product direction
  * Move fast and autonomously

Qualifications

  * 1+ years of professional product design in a consumer context
  * Experience creating a design system from scratch
  * Willing to work onsite in San Francisco

Nice to Have

  * Have had or considered Creative Director roles
  * Have examples of creating beautiful things outside of designs
    (physical art, video, music, etc)

About Clearspace

At Clearspace we help people reduce compulsive phone usage.

We exist to protect people's attention from the exploits of modern
technology platforms and make space for the things that matter to
them most.

We believe the technology to protect someones attention should be
just as sophisticated and effective as the tech that is exploiting it
and are building a world-class engineering team to arm the world with
a comprehensive attention protection stack.

Clearspace
Clearspace
Founded:2022
Batch:W23
Team Size:5
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
  
 
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