Product Designer (UI/UX)

TL;DR:We're looking for an AI-native product designer to work directly with the founders and across several brands. We're VC-backed and scaling fast, so this is a great opportunity to join early and grow with the company. The team consists of branding experts from the likes of Wieden+Kennedy, Saatchi & Saatchi and has worked across small startups to Fortune 500 brands across the whole world. If you're a smart, hungry and creative designer looking for real impact (with equity!), this could be a career defining role for you. About usThe Wild Ventures is a VC-backed startup that builds ecommerce products and AI services - ranging from a premium Scandinavian home decor brand (Wild Palace) to a B2B AI growth suite (Creator AI, LandingCreator.ai, Alex by Creator) as well as a growth and brand consultancy (thisisthewild.com).That means one designer touches a lot of surface area: a B2B SaaS onboarding flow in the morning, a wallpaper video campaign in the afternoon. The roleWe are looking for a talented product designer who can own product interfaces and the marketing creative around them. This is deliberately a broad brief, and it only works because you are AI-native. The output we expect from one person is not achievable at traditional agency pace, so we need someone whose default reflex is to come up with the angle and then reach for the model, rather than the traditional manual process. If you like being the only designer in the room and shipping fast across formats, you will enjoy it. If you want to specialize deeply in one discipline with a large design team around you, this is not the right seat.You will report directly to the founders and work alongside engineering and ops. Product design (roughly half your time)Design end-to-end flows for our AI SaaS products: onboarding, dashboards, editors, billing and upgrade paths, while measuring what works and experimenting using dataRun UX audits and conversion work on the Wild Palace made-to-measure purchase flowBuild and maintain design systems that engineers can implement without hand-holdingTurn rough product direction into wireframes, prototypes and shipped UI Brand and graphic designOwn and evolve visual identity across the portfolio, from typographically-led SaaS brands to a design-led interiors brandCreative assets for product sites and agency engagementsPitch decks, sales collateral, social assets and email design Video and ad creativeConcept, edit and ship performance creative for platforms like Meta, YouTube, TikTok, AppLovin, Google and LinkedInProduct demo videos, feature walkthroughs and short-form social videoWork with the growth side on creative testing: multiple angles, hooks and formats per campaign, then iterate on what the numbers say AI-native productionUse generative tools to produce ad variants, product visuals and video at a volume that manual production cannot matchBuild repeatable pipelines rather than one-off outputs: prompt libraries, reusable templates, consistent brand-locked styling across generated assetsKeep evaluating what is new. The tool you use in six months probably does not exist today, and we expect you to be the one telling us about it You are probably a fit if:You have 2+ years designing digital products, with a portfolio that shows real, shipped interfaces and not just concept workYou can move between SaaS and consumer ecommerce without flattening both into the same house styleYou are fluent in the traditional stack (Figma, Canva, CapCut…) and equally at home in generative tools: Higgsfield, Midjourney, Runway, Veo, Nano Banana, ElevenLabs, v0 or whatever has replaced them by the time you read thisYou know when AI output is good enough to ship and where it still looks like AI slop, and you have the craft to close that gapYou have made ads that ran, and you can talk about what performed and whyYou work well with ambiguity and short briefs, and you push back when the brief is wrong Nice to haveFront-end literacy: enough HTML, CSS and Tailwind to spec accurately or ship small changes yourselfExperience designing for both B2B SaaS and DTC ecommerceMotion design or 3D product visualisationPhotography or art direction for lifestyle and interiors What we offerDirect ownership of design across a multi-company portfolio, with no layers between you and the decisionReal scope to shape how the brands look and how the products workEquity in a fast-growing VC-backed startup How to applySend your portfolio and a short note to arvid@thewildventures.com, covering two things: the piece of work you are proudest of, and how AI tools actually sit in your process today. Be specific about the tools and what they replaced. We care far more about the portfolio than the CV.NOTE: This is a full-time contractor role - we cannot sponsor visas for this role.