Founding Product Designer

Founding Product Designer

📍 Location: Remote (San Francisco, CA)

🕘 Employment Type: Full-Time

📁 Department: Product

📢 Reports To: VP of Product Management

About Source

At Source, we’re redefining procurement for hospitality and commercial real estate by streamlining sourcing, budgeting, purchasing, and delivery. Our solution combines intuitive technology with deep industry expertise to enhance visibility, eliminate inefficiencies, and simplify decision-making, empowering procurement teams to make smarter, more strategic purchases. We prioritize flexibility and real-world adaptability, ensuring our platform meets the unique needs of every project. If you're looking to join a fast-paced, high-growth environment where innovation and collaboration drive real impact, we’d love to have you on board.

The Role

We’re hiring our first full-time product designer—a Principal-level role that’s pivotal in shaping both the product and the design culture at Source. This is an exciting opportunity to bring the clarity and delight of consumer-grade UX to enterprise software.

As our Founding Product Designer, you’ll lead design efforts from concept to execution, ensuring our interfaces are intuitive, accessible, and visually compelling. You’ll collaborate closely with product, engineering, and business leads to translate user needs into elegant solutions—and play an active role in our product council to shape how we build.

Your Impact

In this role, you will:

• Own end-to-end design for key product initiatives—from concept to implementation
• Conduct user research and translate insights into intuitive, user-friendly experiences
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI aligned with our design system
• Collaborate cross-functionally with PMs, engineers, and stakeholders to bring ideas to life
• Seek and incorporate feedback from cross-functional partners
• Iterate quickly based on user feedback and data
• Advocate for UX best practices, accessibility, and design thinking across the company

What You’ll Bring to SourceMust Haves:

• 7+ years of overall experience in product design, with at least 3 years focused on SaaS, enterprise, or other complex digital products
• A user-first mindset with a strong eye for detail and elegant problem-solving
• Fluency in Figma, prototyping tools, and the Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience with user research, usability testing, and data-informed design
• Solid understanding of design principles with basic HTML/CSS knowledge

Bonus Points:

• Startup Mindset – You thrive in fast-paced environments, balancing quality and speed while adapting to change.
• Collaboration & Communication – You enjoy brainstorming with stakeholders, clearly articulating design decisions, and welcoming diverse perspectives.
• Strong Opinions, Loosely Held – You bring confidence to your ideas but remain open to new insights and feedback.
• AI Fluency – You understand how to leverage AI tools to enhance creativity, streamline workflows, and amplify impact.

Why join us

• Build From the Ground Up – As our first full-time design hire, you’ll have the rare opportunity to shape both the product and the design culture at Source. Your work will set the foundation for how we approach UI/UX, usability, and user-centered product development.
• Own the Design Vision – Lead the charge in making enterprise software as intuitive and delightful as consumer apps. You’ll define design systems, workflows, and best practices that impact thousands of users in the commercial construction space.
• Collaborate & Influence – Work closely with product, engineering, and business teams to drive user-centered innovation. Your insights will directly influence product strategy, roadmap, and execution.
• High-Impact Role – Source is at a key inflection point in our growth. The design choices you make today will directly shape how we scale, how we differentiate, and how we redefine a massive industry.
• Great Team – Join a collaborative, high-caliber team that values curiosity, experimentation, and continuous learning.
• Flexible & Remote-Friendly – Work where you thrive, with a team that supports work-life balance.
• Competitive Compensation & Benefits – Market-leading salary, equity, performance bonuses, and comprehensive benefits including employer-paid health insurance, professional development support, and flexible PTO.

Our Core Values

Solve Hard Problems.

✅ Accountable to Execute – Execution eclipses strategy. Planning is important, execution is urgent.

🔄 Flexible and Embrace Change – Embrace constant change. Improve what works, replace what does not.

🚀 Innovate and Think Big – Think bigger than incremental change and drive exponential improvement.

🤝 Respectful, Curious, and Collaborative – We collaborate best by asking questions, being eager to learn and taking an approach of curiosity not certainty.

🏗️A Foundation of Trust – We are reliable teammates and a trustworthy industry partner, fulfilling promises with excellence.

What to Expect in the Hiring Process

Step 1: Introductory Call

Step 2: Technical Interview

Step 3: Cross-Functional Panel Interview

Step 4: Final Interview with Leadership

Step 5: Offer & Onboarding

How to Apply

Ready to build something amazing? Please submit your resume, portfolio, and a short note about why you’re excited to join Source at www.tothesource.com/careers.

We can’t wait to meet you! 🚀

Compensation Statement

Source carefully evaluates multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidate’s skills, qualifications, experience, education, and training.

The minimum salary for the Founding Product Designer position is $165,000 annually, and the maximum salary is $195,000 annually. The actual compensation offered to a successful candidate will be based on these factors and may vary accordingly.

In addition to base salary, successful candidates may be eligible for discretionary bonuses and other incentives based on individual and company performance in alignment with Source’s applicable compensation and benefits programs.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Source is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that diverse perspectives and inclusive environments drive innovation, creativity, and success, and we are dedicated to fostering a workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, political affiliation, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Candidate Accommodations

Source values the unique backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of all current and prospective employees. We recognize that every individual contributes to our success, and we are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible hiring process.

Source provides reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in the job application and recruitment process. If you require assistance due to a disability, please contact us at hr@tothesource.com or (971)271-6905 to request accommodations.