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Founding Product Designer

BlueDesign
Pay
$160K–$300K
per year
Work mode
On-site
Full Time
Experience
6+ yrs
C-Level

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What you need

  • 6+ yrs of product design experience
  • Shipped mobile products on Android or iOS
  • Comfortable prototyping with AI tools
  • Work with ambiguity without a mature spec
  • Build and lead a design team

What you'll do

  • Design triage for notifications, texts, and emails
  • Design handoff, status reporting, and work checkups
  • Design iPhone migration and memory vault controls
  • Own system UI, built-in apps, and design system
  • Hire and lead the design team after Series A

**About Blue
**Blue is building a new kind of phone, with your chief of staff built in. Blue sees what you do and reads every notification, text, and email for you. Based on everything it’s learned about you, it decides what to do with each one: handle it and leave you an FYI, or draft a reply and wait for your OK. And anything else in your life is one button away from being off your plate.

It works from day one. When you switch, Blue reads everything that comes over from your iPhone, so it already knows the people in your life, how you write, and the passwords, cards, and IDs it needs, kept in a secure vault you both share. No onboarding, and no explaining yourself.

Delegation this deep isn’t possible from an app. It takes owning the operating system and, ultimately, the hardware. Today the Blue OS runs on Google Pixel hardware while our own hardware is in development. We’re Y Combinator-backed, seed-funded, and our first customers already use it as their daily phone.

**The role
**You’ll be our first product designer, working directly with the founders and engineers on something nobody has designed before: the experience of having a chief of staff with you 24/7.

  • Triage you can trust: Every notification, text, and email gets handled, drafted for approval, or set aside. You’ll design how those decisions surface, so people stay informed without being interrupted.
  • Handing off: You’ll design how handing something over feels, how Blue reports back, and how people check up on its work
  • Switching without starting over: Blue learns about you from your old iPhone. You’ll design the migration so it feels like picking up where you left off.
  • What Blue knows, and what it can’t see: You’ll design how people view, edit, and delete Blue’s memory, and how the vault works, where Blue can use passwords and IDs without ever seeing them

You’ll own the system UI (home screen, lock screen, notifications) and our built-in apps (messaging, email, calendar, notes, and more), and you’ll start our design system. As our own hardware comes together, you’ll help shape how it brings the full Blue experience to life. After our Series A, you’ll hire and lead the design team and shape how design works at Blue.

This role is for you if you:

  • Have shipped mobile products, ideally phone or OS-level work on Android, iOS
  • Prefer designing and shipping over presenting, and are comfortable prototyping, including with AI tools
  • Work closely with engineers and are fine with daily releases and real-user feedback
  • Can work with ambiguity and make good calls without a mature spec
  • Want to build a design team, not just join one
  • Will make a Blue Phone your daily phone on day 1

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About Blue

Everyone pays someone to handle the parts of their life that don't need them personally. The cleaner, the bookkeeper, the lawn service. Nobody could handle what lives in your phone. Until Blue. Blue is a small USB-C dongle and iPhone app. Plug it in and say what needs doing. The follow-up you haven't sent, the appointment you haven't booked, the reply you owe. Blue opens the right app, does the work, and tells you when it's done. You don't touch your phone. Works with every app already on your iPhone. The team brings complementary experience at scale: Omar Abdelaziz led Google Assistant’s transition to LLMs and holds one of earliest patents in LLM-based computer control; Peter Krogh spent decades designing voice-first dialog systems and was most recently a design lead at Google DeepMind building actions for Gemini Live; Muhammad Farhan Hossain helped ship Apple Vision Pro, is named on dozens of hardware/systems patents, and has led products from prototype to mass production. We’ve built systems used by billions. Now we’re on to defining the next era of computing.

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