Senior UI/UX Designer (React)

Senior UI/UX Designer (React)

About COGENSY

COGENSY turns large‑scale public deliberation into a tamper‑evident, machine‑readable signal—capturing both consensus and principled dissent—for AI labs and policymakers. The core loop is simple (post → support → escalation), with bot‑friction, reputation (time‑decay), diversity‑of‑support thresholds, and a public verifier that proves integrity. We’re building the interface that makes this feel effortless, humane, and trustworthy at scale.

The opportunity

Own the end‑to‑end product experience from first prototype to launch: design the system that lets thousands (eventually millions) contribute signal—not noise. You’ll define the design language, component library, motion, and micro‑interactions that make legitimacy legible (consensus + dissent), and implement the first production UI in React.

What you’ll do

• Lead product IA, flows, and visual language for the MVP (post/support/escalation, digest views, and the public verifier).
• Design and implement React components (accessible, responsive) with clean CSS and thoughtful styling patterns.
• Build a compact design system (tokens, components, states, a11y) in Figma, and assist in translating it faithfully to code.
• Ship high‑clarity artifacts: Figma prototypes, motion specs, UI copy, redlines, and dev‑ready component specs.
• Partner with engineering to polish the consensus + dissent brief views (PDF previews) and the read‑only API consumer UIs.
• Iterate quickly: usability tests, heatmaps/analytics, and fast loop from signal → design → code.

What you bring

• JavaScript (ES6+) and React fluency; comfort wiring real components (no “design‑only” roles here).
• Strong CSS and styling craft (semantic HTML, responsive layouts, a11y/ARIA basics, dark/light, motion).
• Expert with Figma; solid in Photoshop for assets; collaborative tooling in Lucidchart and Miro.
• Taste for systems: tokens, components, states, error/empty/loading, microcopy, and trust cues.
• Bonus: data‑viz instincts; Next.js; Tailwind; PDF rendering experience; interest in human‑computer interaction and civic tech.

How we work

• Small, senior founding team; prototype‑driven; ship weekly.
• Remote‑first with 4+ hours/day overlap with Pacific Time.
• We value clarity, integrity, and graceful UX that scales.

Compensation & terms

• Pre‑funding (now): Service Promissory Note (SPN) at $100/hour, ~20 hours/week.
• On funding: Full‑time salary $140k–$185k USD (DOE & location) + benefits (health, PTO, home‑office stipend).
• Founding‑level equity package: 2.5%–5% common, vesting start back‑dated to your SPN start; double‑trigger acceleration on change of control.

Interested? We'd love to talk to you.

COGENSY is an equal‑opportunity team. We welcome designers from all backgrounds who care about building humane, trustworthy tools for collective decision‑making.