Founding Designer

We find and fix every vulnerability in our customers' applications. When a new AI model is released, we run it against their applications before attackers do, and close what it finds.

About Wakefield

Wakefield is an applied research lab working on AI-native security services. We build security agents and publish how they work. Our methods, benchmark and raw data are public so anyone can check them.

• Source code optional: blackbox agents sign in as every role and test the running app. Whitebox agents read the code on every pull request.

• If Wakefield can't prove it, the customer never sees it: agents replay each finding in a real browser and record it. Then Wakefield writes the fix, ready to open as a pull request, and retests it. We have SLAs for zero false positives.

• One service that replaces DAST, SAST, SCA, SBOM, and the tests companies run in-house or buy in.

The role

Wakefield's agents do work a person used to do: test an application, prove a bug, write the fix. The people who rely on them range from security engineers to a CEO who has never heard of an IDOR. As our first designer, you'll own how all of it looks and feels: the console, the design system, the reports, and the Wakefield brand and website.

What you'll work on

• Proof that anyone can follow: a recording, the requests and a fix, in one view.

• Following agents at work: what they're doing, why, and what they'll try next.

• Reports a CISO hands to a board, and briefings for leaders who aren't technical.

• Trust and control: scope, approvals, and stopping a scan at once.

• One design system across the console and the website.

• The Wakefield brand: identity, website and motion.

Requirements

• A strong portfolio of shipped product work with precise visual and interaction craft

• Time at a fast-growing startup

• You've built design from scratch: a design system, a brand, or both

• You've shipped with engineers to real users and kept iterating after launch

• You make complex, dense systems simple without hiding what matters

• You use AI tools every day to prototype and ship, and still own every detail

• You design for fun because you genuinely care about the craft

Nice to have

• You code: you prototype or ship production UI and design system code yourself

• You've designed security, developer or data-heavy products

How we hire

1. Meet the co-founders.

2. A one-week paid trial with us in the office.

3. Offer.

Logistics

• Location: San Francisco, in person. Most of the team is in the office every day.

• Compensation: Competitive salary and meaningful equity.

• Visa: We sponsor visas and support you through the immigration process.