Founding Product Designer

About Sumbios

Google organized the world's information.

OpenAI organized the world's reasoning.

Sumbios organizes the world's relationships.

We're building the
Operating System for Human Networks
, powered by the
Symbiotic Intelligence Engine (SIE):
a temporal, context-aware intelligence layer that turns relationships into living systems of memory, meaning, and coordinated action.

Where CRMs store data, Sumbios understands:

• memory — what happened
• context — why it matters
• trust — the quality of connection
• alignment — where resonance exists
• intention — direction of movement
• potential — what could emerge next

Our goal:

Create an intelligence that learns and acts with people.
A system that amplifies human connection, coordination, and creativity.

We combine knowledge graphs, AI orchestration, and human-centered systems design to build a new computational model for relationships.

About the Role

This is a
Founding Product Designer
role for someone who designs, prototypes, and builds.

You're fluent in interaction design, visual systems, and front-end craft. You're able to take concepts from sketch → Figma → high-fidelity prototype → working front-end components — translating the identity of SIE into real, tangible experiences.

You'll collaborate closely with:

• Paolo (Founder & CPO)
• CTO & CIO
• Graph, AI, and platform engineers
• Early users across venture, GTM, and innovation ecosystems

Your mission:

Make a complex intelligence feel simple, natural, and alive — and build the interfaces that bring it to life.

What You'll Lead
1. Product Architecture & Sensemaking

• Work with founders and early users to uncover workflows, mental models, and systemic needs.
• Translate complexity into clear product concepts, diagrams, and interaction patterns.
• Align design decisions with graph logic, memory models, and AI behaviors.

2. Interaction Design & Prototyping

• Create adaptive interfaces that evolve with context, intent, and network state.
• Design flows for:
• dynamic graphs
• relationship intelligence
• trust & alignment signals
• contextual missions/workspaces
• Prototype in
  Figma, Framer, v0
  , and refine until the interaction feels seamless and expressive.

3. Front-End Implementation (Core Part of the Role)

• Build production-ready UI components in
  + Tailwind/Shadcn
  .
• Collaborate with engineering to integrate designs with:
• graph APIs
• context engine
• intelligence modules
• Implement interactive visualizations using
  D3, Recharts, or Cytoscape
  .
• Own the high-fidelity execution of the interface.

This is not an "engineer on the side" role,
your front-end craft is central to how the product is shaped.

4. Systems, Language & Design Infrastructure

• Define the Sumbios design system, interface ontology, and atomic component library.
• Create scalable patterns for individuals → teams → organizations → ecosystems.
• Ensure the UI reflects the underlying semantics and intelligence architecture.

5. Co-Creation with Vision & Engineering

• Prototype new intelligence behaviors with Paolo.
• Co-design graph interactions and contextual reasoning flows with CTO/CIO.
• Sit with pilot users and iterate fast based on real-world signal.
• Shape the roadmap by turning complexity into clarity.

What You Bring

• 5–8+ years in
  product design
  with strong cross-functional ownership.
• Expertise in both
  design
  and
  front-end implementation
  .
• Fluent with
  React, , Tailwind, Shadcn, Framer Motion
  .
• Ability to prototype high-fidelity experiences in code as well as Figma.
• Systems thinker who works with models, contexts, and flows — not just screens.
• Experience collaborating continually with engineering.

Bonus if you've worked with:

• knowledge graphs (Neo4j, RDF, ontologies)
• data visualization (D3, Cytoscape)
• agentic or context-aware AI systems
• complex, dynamic interfaces
• motion/UI animation for intelligence systems

Above all, you can shape interfaces that feel alive and meaningful.

Our Environment

Design & Prototyping:
Figma, Framer, v0, Miro, Notion

Front-End:
React, , Tailwind, Shadcn, Framer Motion, D3/Cytoscape

Knowledge & Graph:
Neo4j, Airtable, Supabase, Notion

AI Stack:
ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, internal SIE agents

Collaboration:
Slack, Notion, Linear, Loom

Why Join Us

• Foundational role shaping the first interface for symbiotic intelligence.
• Direct collaboration with founders and deep access to core decision-making.
• Design and build for a category that doesn't exist yet.
• Influence everything from ontology → UX → front-end motion.
• Competitive compensation + meaningful early equity.
• A mission grounded in relational intelligence, systemic thinking, and human meaning.

If you want to design — and build — how intelligence feels, let's talk.