Founding Design Engineer (AI agents) at nexwise

Founding Design Engineer (AI agents) at nexwise

About nexwise

We're building agentic AI that masters product complexity for industrial companies. We've raised our pre‑seed round from top‑tier angels and VCs and are working with German industrial manufacturers with >€1Bn revenue. Our guided selling AI agents help customers find the right product reliably, and we're building nexus – our product data layer for AI agents across sales, support, marketing and product management.

What you'll do

• Design the user experience of our AI agents for sales, marketing, support and product management
• Pioneer hybrid UX patterns that combine structured UI components with conversational AI
• Design information-dense interfaces that make complex technical data understandable at a glance
• Implement a lightweight design system of components that can be mixed and matched to build new AI agent interfaces quickly
• Implement a mobile‑first version of our AI agent interfaces
• Lead user research and translate insights into actionable product improvements

You're a great fit if you

• Bridge the gap between engineering and design – started as an engineer who fell in love with UX, or a designer who learned to code
• Have taken features from concept to production, strongest on frontend but comfortable with backend
• Have strong frontend skills with attention to detail and pixel‑perfect execution
• Think like a product person and thrive on direct customer interaction
• Have experience with React, Next.js, Tailwind, Shadcn/UI and TypeScript
• Have implemented mobile interfaces before

Nice to have

• Speak German fluently
• Early‑stage startup experience
• Experience prototyping with AI tools like v0
• Located in or willing to relocate to Munich

Compensation

€80,000-€120,000 annually plus 0.5-1.1% equity (VSOP)

€10,000 referral bonus for successful hires who stay 6 months!