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Founding Designer

Join August as a Founding Designer to shape the product experience and brand identity for AI-driven legal services.

Location
New York City
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
mid
Type
full time · On-site

Posted by employer 11 months ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago

Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago

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Skills & Technologies

AI in the day-to-day

Our agents mimic a lawyers’ reasoning, research, and drafting, and our workflows already outperform lawyers in third-party evaluations.

Requirements

Experience
2+ years

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.

Benefits

Flexible PTO Gym Membership Health Insurance Relocation Assistance Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

As a Founding Designer at August, the individual will lead the design efforts for both product and brand, focusing on creating intuitive user experiences for complex AI workflows. The role requires proficiency in modern design tools and a strong portfolio that demonstrates the ability to simplify intricate processes. This position is ideal for someone with at least two years of design experience who thrives in an early-stage environment, where they can significantly influence the company's design culture and output.

Joblaze insights

Quick facts

Is the Founding Designer role remote?
No — this is an on-site role in New York City.
How much experience is required?
At least 2 years of relevant experience for this Founding Designer role.
Where is the role based?
August is hiring for this position in New York City.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Figma.
What seniority level is this role?
August targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Founding Designer role at August.

From the original posting

The world’s largest law firm won’t be a law firm. Join us in building it.

August allows law firms to compound their expertise by building an autonomous organization of AI agents that run the firm's knowledge work. We partner closely with our firms and grow alongside them through sharing revenue on our agents and equity in the firms we transform.

We believe that in five years, more than 95% of legal work will be concentrated among a select few elite law firms. The firms that get there will be the ones that rebuild how they deliver it. We're partnering with those firms and building the engine they run on to become the biggest legal service provider in the world.

We invest in partnerships, not just licenses. We sell finished legal work alongside our firms and take a share of what it earns. This enables them to scale their services and lets us grow along with it. That means we’re chasing the legal services market ($1T), which dwarfs the global legal tech market ($40b).

The problem is hard. An engine of agents sits underneath every matter we touch, connected to every step of a lawyer's workflow, in an industry where there is no margin for error. We’re challenged with building the perfectly accurate, infallibly secure, and yet all-powerful engine for legal work.

We're already live with several excellent firms and the early results are better than we expected. Lean team, in person, New York, backed by leading investors, growing fast.

Every role at August is a chance to remake an industry while the window is open.

Join us in building the autopilot for legal services

Today, legal work is done the way it has been done for a century — manually, by humans, in six-minute increments. Every contract drafted from scratch. Every memo researched line by line. Every matter running through layers of review that someone is paying for at hundreds of dollars an hour.

That is about to change. We believe that in five years, more than 80% of legal work will pass through a model before it ever reaches a human. The implication is not faster lawyers — it is a fundamentally different way that legal services get bought and procured.

Our mission is to make high-quality legal work accessible and affordable for everyone. We are going after the services spend, not the software spend — helping law firms restructure their delivery model around AI, and helping in-house teams do the same. One engine of agents and workflows underneath every matter we touch.

We are a lean, in-person based in New York City, backed by leading investors and growing fast. Every role at August is a chance to remake an industry while the window is open.

The Opportunity

August is building AGI for law. Our agents mimic a lawyers’ reasoning, research, and drafting, and our workflows already outperform lawyers in third-party evaluations. We’re targeting mid-market law firms, automating their legal work and allowing them to provide our tools directly to their clients. Join August at an early stage as we scale our agents to process thousands of documents simultaneously and create outputs exceeding human-level accuracy.

As a Founding Designer at August, you’ll own the design function end-to-end—shaping the product experience, refining our brand identity, and setting the design culture. You’ll work closely with the founders, engineers, and legal experts to craft intuitive interfaces for complex AI workflows and create a brand that resonates with law firms worldwide

What You'll Do

  • Lead design for product and brand—owning UI/UX, visual identity, and marketing materials.

  • Translate complex legal AI workflows into simple, intuitive user experiences.

  • Partner with engineers to prototype, test, and ship AI-native interfaces at speed.

  • Develop a consistent visual language across product, website, and external communications.

  • Help build the foundation of August’s design culture, processes, and standards.

About You

  • 2+ years of professional design experience (product, brand, or both).

  • Strong portfolio showcasing polished product design and/or brand systems.

  • Proficiency with modern design tools (Figma or equivalent) and comfort with rapid iteration.

  • Ability to design elegant solutions for complex workflows.

  • Comfortable working at an early stage company with ownership and autonomy.

Benefits

  • Medical insurance coverage

  • Flexible PTO

  • Parental Leave

  • Centralized office equipment ordering for all employees

  • Equinox or Chelsea Piers gym membership

  • In-office perks: lunch, dinner, snacks, drinks, and more

  • Budget for intra-office travel

  • Team-building events

  • Relocation support to NYC (as needed)

Why Join August

  • Founding Impact: Shape not just your role but the company.

  • Uncapped Upside: Competitive base + commission, early equity ownership.

  • Top-tier Team: Work alongside people who move fast, think clearly, and care deeply.

  • Category-Defining Work: Help build the first true AI agents for the legal profession.

  • Fast Growth: Scale your career as we scale the company.

  • In-person in NYC: Collaborative, talent dense and high energy environment

  • Global Reach: Our clients span 4 continents and use August in multiple languages and jurisdictions

  • Frontier of Applied AI: August has access to proprietary data inaccessible to foundation model providers. We build agents to automate all challenging knowledge work.

Why Join August

  • Founding Impact: Shape not just your role but the company.

  • Uncapped Upside: Competitive base + commission, early equity ownership.

  • Top-tier Team: Work alongside people who move fast, think clearly, and care deeply.

  • Category-Defining Work: Help build the first true AI agents for the legal profession.

  • Fast Growth: Scale your career as we scale the company.

  • In-person in NYC: Collaborative, talent dense and high energy environment

  • Global Reach: Our clients span 4 continents and use August in multiple languages and jurisdictions

  • Frontier of Applied AI: August has access to proprietary data inaccessible to foundation model providers. We build agents to automate all challenging knowledge work.

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