About Granola
Hey, we are team Granola.
If you have not already, check out what we are building and why you should work here.
We are looking for a Product Designer to invent the future of AI-powered work tools. You will share our obsession with making the most useful product possible, especially as we evolve Granola into a multiplayer, multi-platform tool that helps with far more than notes.
Why this role is special
Invent the future of software: AI is evolving at breakneck speed, and we believe half of tomorrow’s best practices have not yet been invented. If you are drawn to experimentation and pioneering new interaction patterns, you will thrive here.
Shape our early team: You will help define Granola’s design DNA. You will not simply follow established processes; you will create them, influencing everything from day-to-day workflows to our long-term design culture.
Join a design-forward founding team: Sam, our co-founder, is a Designer, and Chris, our co-founder, is a second-time founder with a product background. We understand what doing design well means, and you will have full support to advocate for great user experiences.
Work with kind, ambitious and talented people: We have built an exceptional team of Engineers and Designers with strong product sense and empathy for users. Building something that is genuinely useful is embedded in our culture.
What you will do
Work on early feature definition, sitting shoulder to shoulder with Engineers to ship features and take them to market.
Raise the fit and finish of our product. People spend hours each day in Granola, and we owe them a beautifully crafted experience.
Spend time with users every week, whether investigating use cases, testing new features or building your understanding of what to build next.
Prototype, test and iterate, switching between exploration mode — trying bold ideas and prototyping in Figma or code with AI tools such as Cursor and Claude Code — and execution mode, perfecting promising features and refining interactions, typography and motion.
Evolve our brand and design language, ensuring it is applied consistently across the product.
Your background
You have spent at least a few years shipping beautifully designed products to real users. This is a senior or staff-level role.
You are a systems thinker who has worked on open-ended tools, not only linear A-to-B flows. You understand that architecting a flexible system is as challenging as delivering individual features.
You know when to be scrappy and when to focus intensely on detail. Early in feature discovery, speed of iteration matters most; once conviction grows, interaction, typography and motion make the difference.
You are a natural prototyper. “Let’s try it and see how it feels” may become one of your most-used phrases.
You are drawn to solving problems in code and using the latest AI tools. Staying on the leading edge of AI tooling is a company value: it helps us work more effectively and incorporate the best ideas into Granola.
You measure design by what ships, not by the beauty of a Figma file.
You are comfortable working across platforms. We build for Mac, iOS and web, and Granola should feel like a good citizen on each. Awareness of established platform patterns is important.
About you
You are, first and foremost, a builder.
You are excited to work in person from our London office most of the time.
You enjoy startup environments, whether through previous experience or a strong pull toward zero-to-one work.
You value working with people who are kind, ambitious and pragmatic.
About the opportunity
We are living through the most exciting time for tool builders since Engelbart’s demo in 1968. We want to assemble the best crew to build this future together in London.
Our compensation philosophy is to pay slightly above market on salary and above market on equity.
We do our best work in person, so the team spends five days a week together in our new, bright and spacious Old Street office. We are happy to offer relocation assistance to candidates moving to London to join us.
Amazing talent comes from all kinds of life journeys and experiences. If this role speaks to you, whether or not you look like a perfect fit on paper, we would love to hear from you.