Founding Designer

Video is the most compelling medium ever invented.

But even a single minute of video can take hours to make and expertise across multiple tools.

AI is changing this forever, and how we create and consume video will look completely different in 2 or 3 years time.

We’re building a creative tool for content engineers (think Cursor) along with the agentic infrastructure to scale that content to infinity (think Devin).

We’re design-led, we’ve intentionally architecture our tech stack in webGL to maximize the ceiling of what can be made and expressed visually in Yarn.

We’re a small experienced team based in Soho NYC.

Our investors include YCombinator, General Catalyst, Leonis Capital, and angels from Pika Labs, Meta, Roblox, and Adobe.

“Yarn has changed how we think about video. We’re now able to make high-retention content at scale – it feels like a secret weapon. I haven’t seen anyone else doing video like this with AI.” Varun Anand, Cofounder @ Clay

About the role

We’re building in stealth with world-class teams at companies like Clay and Shopify, and we’re looking for a founding designer role in-person in NYC.

We’ve hit an inflection point on fit with our customers and now looking to aggressively grow the team across design, engineering, and AI.

We’re looking for a talented designer who will shape both the user experience of our product and the visual quality of content created with Yarn.

Someone with an extremely good eye, the ability to reason and think creatively, able to push the boundaries of what’s possible, and have a founder mindset with strong equity.

Things you might work on immediately

• Steer the visual direction of Yarn’s brand across surfaces.
• Work with customers like Clay or Shopify to elevate their visual storytelling through video.
• Design core agent interfaces and creative tool experiences.
• Help build out new motion graphics features.
• Write WebGL shaders for special FX and graphics.

How we work

• We believe in small, hard-working, talent-dense teams.
• We deeply care about our customers and relentlessly iterate and collaborate with them.
• We're generalists that enjoy picking up new challenges and learning new tech.
• We prototype broadly across technologies and UXes, then make aggressive product plays.