Job Description
We’re hiring a designer to own product and web design at Manicule. We build software and AI workflows that help technical companies create documentation and content.
You’ll work directly with the founders, turning complex workflows into clear interfaces and shaping how we present the product on the web. This role spans early exploration, interaction design, visual polish, and working with engineers to get the details right.
What you’ll work on
- Product flows, dashboards, and interfaces for managing AI-powered work.
- Our website, landing pages, and product launches.
- A consistent visual language across the product and website.
- Prototypes and implementation reviews to take designs through to shipping.
What we’re looking for
- Experience working with SF startups or technical companies, especially developer tools, AI products, or B2B software.
- A portfolio showing strong product design and web design.
- Good judgment around typography, layout, interaction, and information hierarchy.
- Comfort working from an evolving brief, asking useful questions, and moving quickly with a small team.
- Clear communication and the ability to own work independently in a remote environment.
If you also build interfaces in React, Next.js, or CSS, we’d love to see that work. Frontend implementation experience is a strong plus.
To apply
Apply through YC with your portfolio, availability, and a short introduction. Include one product project and one website you’re proud of, with a brief explanation of your role and what shipped.
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Job Details
- Category
- Design
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
- Posted
- Compensation
- $40,000 - $120,000 per year
About Manicule
Manicule is an AI-native technical documentation agency. We own technical documentation end-to-end for developer tool companies, including information architecture, messaging, writing, design, and QA. Agents handle the mechanical parts like code verification and auditing at a scale and speed no human team can match, while humans refine the thinking and make the docs actually good. We're at $15K MRR and profitable, with clients like Supermemory, Greptile, Reducto, and Rootly. Supermemory's docs drove a 30% improvement in answer success rate and went viral on Twitter, all shipped in 23 days. Every dev tool founder knows their docs are broken but simply don't have the time to fix them. The old solution was hiring a full-time technical writer who understands engineering, marketing, and devrel. That role is really hard and expensive to hire for, so docs stay broken. Naman started freelance writing for developer tools 3 years ago and realized that you can't one-shot docs. They require tight feedback loops with the engineering team, multiple review cycles, and real product understanding. When he worked with Supermemory, they had two products that sounded identical to customers. He got on calls with the CEO, figured out the right positioning for each product, and restructured the entire docs around it. That kind of work requires judgment and context that agents simply don’t have. On the other hand, testing every code snippet against a live API, auditing hundreds of pages for broken links, and drafting from OpenAPI specs is grunt work that agents do in minutes. The insight behind Manicule is that good documentation requires both, and nobody has packaged them together. Shreyans was a founding engineer at Supermemory, saw the impact of good docs firsthand, and joined Naman to productize Manicule. We're now a team of 5, building toward that vision. Thousands of AI startups are launching dev tools every month, and docs are the single biggest asset they're all neglecting.
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