Founding Product/Design Engineer

About the Company

Orpex is building the infrastructure for the next generation of AI-native service companies. Future service businesses won't scale through headcount; they'll be built by tiny teams orchestrating AI workforces. Orpex is the platform they run on: an agentic workforce, a company brain, a human trust layer, and one cockpit to run the business. Founded by a repeat founder who started his first company at 14, became Austria's youngest founder, and scaled it to $5M+ ARR before exiting in 2024. Orpex just closed an oversubscribed $2.7M angel round and is building a world-class team.

About the Role

This is the founding product-and-design hire at Orpex. The role owns the entire product experience, not individual features, from Figma through to production code. The founder designed the product from 0 to 6. This hire takes it from 6 to 10 and ships it to users as Orpex moves from closed beta to a public launch.

The role reports directly to the Founder & CEO and works alongside the founding engineering team, which owns backend and agent infrastructure. It suits a designer who builds, or an engineer with real design taste, who wants full ownership of how the product looks, feels, and works, with the autonomy to make product calls without waiting for a brief.

What You'll Own

The end-to-end product experience across every surface, from information architecture and interaction design to the final shipped UI

The path from design to production: designing in Figma and implementing it in frontend code

Raising the existing product from a functional closed beta to a polished, launch-ready experience

Product decisions on what to improve next, informed by direct conversations with early users

The design system and frontend standards that future hires will build on

Requirements

Must-Have

Strong product taste and user-experience judgment, visible in real shipped work

Ability to both design and build, with a strong frontend sensibility and production-grade frontend skills

A track record of building and shipping impressive products that real users use

A clear signal of exceptional ability: a standout portfolio, founder track record, early-stage trajectory, or equivalent (a top university is helpful but not required)

Comfort owning an entire product end-to-end without a manager, playbook, or dedicated design team

Nice-to-Have

Prior founder experience, having built a product with strong craft

Early-stage tenure at a design-led company with a strong trajectory, such as Linear, Vercel, Ramp, or The Browser Company (Arc)

Degree from a top university or another competitive credential

Experience designing tools for business operators or founders

VISA NOTE:

Open to J1 and work 18 months apprenticeship.