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Credal
Brooklyn, New York, United States
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From Credal's posting. “We” and “our” refer to the employer.
Our mission at Credal is to harness frontier AI for everyone building a better future.
We accelerate the most complex, sophisticated operations of the most impactful institutions, while weaving security and governance into every part of our product. Our customers include the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services, MongoDB, Comcast NBC Universal, Lattice, Wise (Transferwise), Checkr, and incident.io among others.
We’ve raised over $10m to date with a ton of runway. You’ll join a team of Thoughtful Doers™ from places like Palantir, Cruise, Meta, Uber, and Google.
📍 Credal is in-person in our spacious
NYC office with meals provided.
This role
We're looking for the person who will define what design means at Credal.
You'll be the first design hire and you'll own the function.
Credal sits on top of some of the most complex and important machinery in enterprise software: permission inheritance across a thousand data sources, agent registries, governance policy, audit lineage. And we're building it on the frontier of AI, where the conventions for how any of this should look and feel haven't been established yet; so there's real room to explore and define them across the industry.
Our customers include some of the most important institutions in the world, and we're actively relied on every day by thousands of employees at customers like HHS, Flatiron Health, Comcast, and Wise.
Today, our engineering is ahead of our storytelling. The gap between
and how clearly a user grasps it in the first thirty seconds is the single highest-leverage problem we can hand to one person. That's this role.
Translate company strategy and user needs into visual language.
Concretely, that means product UI and user stories. You turn a go-to-market bet into something people immediately understand.
Own and evolve the design system.
The rules, components, patterns, and principles that allow our engineering team to iterate quickly without sacrificing legibility.
Author front-end code within reason.
Enough to build and maintain the design system in code, prototype your own ideas, and ship polish without waiting in an eng queue. You won't carry a backend load (unless you're interested); we have a full team for that.
The honest split
This role is roughly
70% design, 30% code.
We have a full team for feature development, but you'll need to be self-sufficient prototyping and able to iterate on frontend-specific production changes yourself. If you're a brilliant designer who codes enough to be dangerous, you're exactly who we want; if you're an engineer who dabbles in design, this probably isn't your seat.
You'll thrive here if
You think in systems. You understand user needs deeply enough to turn them into reusable patterns. The kind that act as a force multiplier on the whole team rather than a one-off fix.
You can sit with our users and the team, synthesize strategy, and come back with a visual story that makes it land.
You have strong, defensible opinions about type, layout, motion, and information density.
Enterprise, technical, developer-facing product excites rather than bores you. Making the complicated feel simple is the whole job.
You want the range and ownership that only exist at a small company.
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