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Free JD template · Updated 2026-07-16

First Product Designer job description template

An opinionated, copy-paste First Product Designer JD used by founders in 2026. Edit the bracketed sections, ship it, and paste back for feedback. Or generate a version tailored to your company in 60 seconds.

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The template

**Founding Product Designer at [Company]**

[Company] is [context]. We are hiring our first product designer to own the visual and interaction identity of the product.

**What you will own**
- The design system and the product surface.
- End-to-end shipping: research, interaction, visual, prototype.
- Design review and critique for the whole team.

**About you**
- Portfolio that shows both craft and shipped impact.
- Comfortable with real components and engineering trade-offs.
- Opinionated but calm in critique.

**Comp**
[Base] + [equity]. Direct partnership with the founder on craft.

How to use it

  1. Copy the template into your ATS or a fresh doc.
  2. Fill in every bracketed section with a specific, concrete answer.
  3. Read it out loud once. If a sentence sounds like an agency wrote it, rewrite it.
  4. Post it, and paste it into Startup Roles to get a shortlist calibrated against it.

The three things this template does differently

Names the risk
Senior candidates are pattern-matching for how honestly you describe the job. Vague responsibilities read as vague ownership.
Compensates directly
Real base and equity ranges up front outperform 'competitive' every time on senior reply rates.
First-90-days framing
Instead of a list of tasks, we describe the shape of the first quarter. Candidates self-select correctly.

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