Founding Designer
Overview
We’re looking for a senior/staff level designer to lead all things design at Anara. This is an opportunity to reinvent how scientists discover information and work together. You’ll build the foundation of a design culture that will impact scientific research for decades to come.
Job Description
Anara is AI for scientific advancement. We help researchers understand, organize and write scientific documents, together. We started working on Anara 18 months ago. In that time: we’ve grown to 2M users spanning hundreds of major colleges and research-led companies, we reached $3M in yearly revenue and are fast approaching $4M, 200M+ people have seen our content across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and we raised $2.4M from YC and the founders of Github and Reddit. Looking ahead, we’re expanding beyond summarization and writing assistance to address the broader challenges of information overload faced by academics and research teams. We're a small, tight-knit team with huge ambitions. As a founding member of the team, you'll be instrumental in helping us scale revenue from $3M to $10M and then $10M to $100M+.
Responsibilities
- - Talk to users, translate these conversations into product features, improvements and fixes, work with engineering to get them shipped, repeat
- - Build the design team as we scale, including hiring, establishing design processes, and fostering a culture of rapid iteration and excellence
- - Own all aspects of our visual identity across product, marketing, socials and brand
- - Define and implement design systems, documentation practices and workflows that help the team build visually consistent, high-quality features quickly
Required Skills
- - You are quick, scrappy and first and foremost a hacker/builder
- - Design at Anara is lightning fast - we typically take features from idea to high-fidelity design in days, not weeks or months
- - You’ve spent at least a few years shipping complex but beautiful features to real users
- - You live and breathe pixels with excellent taste for well-crafted interaction design and UI details
- - You have worked in a high-growth, fast-paced environment (ideally another startup) and can drive things forward with relatively little oversight
Benefits
- - Premium healthcare (medical, dental, etc.)
- - Flexible working hours
- - Office space with a beautiful view of the SF marina and Golden Gate bridge
- - Visa sponsorship if interested in moving to SF
About the company
Anara is a fast-growing AI company focused on accelerating scientific discovery by empowering researchers to read, write, and explore academic literature more efficiently. Their platform uses advanced language models to surface relevant insights, uncover connections between papers, and automate repetitive research tasks—essentially expanding the cognitive bandwidth of scientists and enabling deeper thinking. Since launching just 18 months ago, Anara has grown to over 2 million users, including researchers from institutions like Stanford, GSK, and Johns Hopkins, and has reached nearly $4 million in annual revenue. Backed by Y Combinator and the founders of GitHub and Reddit, Anara is building the next generation of human-AI collaboration—what they call the “researcher of the future.”
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