Senior User Interface Designer (Co-founder)

Get Lost is looking for a Senior UI Designer - with a touch of branding wizardry about them - to join us as a founding team member. This is an opportunity to help shape the design language and emotional identity of a social platform for book lovers. Think Letterboxd meets TikTok, designed to help improve people's reading habits.

We’re building something special: a living, breathing platform that turns reading into a social, gamified habit. Our mission is to fix book discovery and help people build better reading habits, especially the younger generations drowning in algorithmic noise. We’re community-first, design-led, and built with the same DNA as live-service mobile games.

We’re pre-product, pre-revenue, and currently raising, but we’ve done this before. Our founding team includes startup veterans who have raised over €6m and built products used by millions.

Now we’re applying everything we’ve learned to a space we deeply care about: books, culture, and community.

What we’re looking for:

• A designer who can lead our visual identity, UI systems, and interaction design across web and mobile
• Someone who can work hands-on with Figma but think conceptually and strategically
• A creative who understands storytelling, motion, and the emotional mechanics of interface
• Bonus points if you’ve worked in games, consumer social, or publishing

What you’ll get:

• Co-founder equity (salary once we've raised, of course)
• Deep involvement in product, brand, and company building
• A chance to build something beautiful, bold, and genuinely meaningful
• A seat at the table as we redefine the future of reading

You’ll be working closely with James (Skunkworks founder & CEO, ex-Next Games, ex-Supercell), Andrey (full-stack wizard), Martin, (game design and UX design master), and Steve (narrative and data strategist), plus a circle of highly experienced book publishing, operations, and tech advisors.

If you’ve ever said “I wish Goodreads didn’t suck” or “why is the book world stuck in the 90s?”, come help us fix it.

To clarify, in case it isn't obvious: this is a co-founder position which is compensated with equity, not salary, until we have closed a pre-seed round of investment.

Note that you can be based anywhere for this position, but we prefer people within +/- 2 hours of EEST.