Founding Design Engineer

What is PayMe

PayMe helps people find and claim money they are already owed. It sits at the intersection of consumer product, trust, conversion, and financial outcomes.

That makes design unusually important. The product has to feel clear, trustworthy, and worth acting on.

What we need

PayMe needs a founding designer who owns the frontend experience end to end. This person should make the product clearer, tighter, more trustworthy, and more worth paying for.

The center of gravity is design. Taste matters more than raw engineering depth. But this cannot be a pure designer. We want someone who has already crossed into shipping real product work, mostly with modern AI tools.

Who you are

Strong consumer app taste

Real product thinking

Meaningful shipped work, either a large side project or an awesome feature at work

Clear explanation of what you designed versus what you built

Real interest in moving further into engineering over time

Why it's exciting

You will own the frontend experience, not just a slice of it

You will work on the highest-leverage parts of the product: onboarding, activation, paywall, and conversion

You will have real influence over how PayMe feels and performs

You will work on a small team where good ideas ship fast

What you own

The frontend product experience end to end

The quality bar for key user flows

Designing and improving onboarding, activation, paywall, and other conversion-critical surfaces

Turning fuzzy product questions into sharp design hypotheses and shipped improvements

Using AI and lightweight implementation ability to help move frontend work forward

What success looks like

Onboarding gets clearer and tighter

Activation improves

Paywall and conversion flows improve

The app feels more coherent and polished

Design stops being a bottleneck

What you're not here to do

Be a pure visual designer who hands things off

Be a backend or systems engineer

Wait for perfect specs before moving

Act as project manager for everyone else

Our process

15 min screen with Kinetic's Lead Engineer

Half-day async paid project

Deep dive with Kinetic's Founding Designer

Team conversations, including PayMe's General Manager

Internal work day, with a possible second day depending on how it goes

Target turnaround ~2 weeks from start to finish.