Title: Founding Designer
Remuneration:Â Competitive salary + big equity
Location: Sydney, Australia (in-person, with WFH flex)
Job type: Full-time
Experience:Â 5+ years
About Klaro
Klaro is a workspace to help non-technical, non-financial people work with numbers. Think of it like Canva for numbers. Our early customers are creatives (designers, ecom founders, music artist managers) who need help with things like calculating break-even ticket sales for a concert or profit made on wholesale orders. Long-term, we envision Klaro as an essential part of every important decision.
Based in Sydney, Klaro is well-funded and backed by top Australian investors including Blackbird, Side Stage Ventures, Our Innovation Fund (OIF) as well as early employees from Canva and THEÂ ICONIC.Â
Read more about Klaro on www.klaroapp.com
About the role
Klaro is seeking a curious, multi-faceted designer with strong principles to lead our product, brand, and design work. Working across the full design stack, you'll own projects from start to finish.
Your role is 80% product design, collaborating with users and the team to deliver world-class experiences. The remaining 20% focuses on brand and marketing work, partnering with agencies and domain experts. While primarily a product design role, your creative voice will shape our entire design language. Examples of things you'll work on:
- Product design.
- User discovery & research.
- Information architecture.
- UX/UI and interaction design.
- Brand and marketing materials.
- Visual design and collateral.
As an early-stage startup, this is a unique opportunity for a talented generalist to shape our entire product and brand journey. Beyond design, you'll be key in product workshops, customer support, and establishing our design culture as we scale. Your expertise will help build the foundations for our growing company.
About the design stack
Product: Figma, Linear
Website: Webflow
Collateral: Figma, Canva
If you have opinions about the stack we are totally open to changing and augmenting it. We have no strong preferences other than Figma and Linear for product work.
About you
- You have a strong portfolio showcasing design excellence, attention to detail, and deep UX understanding.
- You’re creative and self-motivated, thriving in an autonomous environment.
- You're able to both conceive ideas and translate them into stunning and thoughtful designs.
- You can balance technical constraints with user-centric thinking to create effective solutions.
- You know how to go fast, and when it's the right time to do so.
- You understand design principles that ensure usability, accessibility, and scalability.
- You understand how to prioritise.
- You take pride in your work, especially in the details no one may ever see.
- You're committed to continuous learning, excited by new design trends and tools.
- You enjoy collaborating within a small, passionate team that strives for exceptional quality and innovative solutions.
Why join us?
🧡 Values-driven culture
💰 Backed by top Australian tech investors (Blackbird, OIF and SSV)
📈 Big equity - you'll be a founding member
🤓 Solve challenging problems in a collaborative setting
We're a well-funded startup with significant backing from investor like Blackbird, OIF and Side Stage Ventures, giving us runway for many years into the future. This means you will be paid a good salary but also, because we are in such an early stage, we are still able to offer really meaningful equity stakes.
Joining our founding team is a great opportunity for you to do your life's best work, accomplish more in a month than you would in a year, constantly learn new things at a breakneck pace and experience deep camaraderie in the process.
Interview process
The interview process post application is simple.
1) Informal chats with Niklas and the team to hear our pitch and understand your interests and goals.
2) A technical interview involving a design take-home challenge.
3) A two-three day paid work trial where you come in and work with us.
There’s no better way for each of us to figure out if we like working together than to work together.
