Head Product Designer (Founding team)

Responsibilities

• Visual and industrial design across the entire product
• Internal component design, including joints, fasteners, and user-accessible parts
• End-user assembly instructions and manufacturing-ready files
• Contribution to software UI styling and polish (secondary to hardware)

Skills

• You’ve shipped real physical products, either solo or at a lean startup
• You’re full-stack industrial design: CAD, prototyping, rendering, aesthetics, function
• You work fast, take ownership, and operate independently
• You care more about building something meaningful than collecting a paycheck
• Must work on-site in Miami, FL
• A massive surface area of responsibility and creative control

Benefits

• 💡 You’ll own everything design, from product aesthetics and physical housing to internal mechanics and UI styling
• 💼 Your start date begins after the raise closes (estimated 30 to 60 days)
• 💰 2% equity and an $84K salary starting post-raise
• 💸 With an increase to six figure salary expected within 24 months
• 🌍 A chance to build something that will be used by millions

Vital is building hardware-software products to innovate the $3 trillion dollar beverage industry. An industry that hasn't evolved in decades.

Our first product, Glides, is already live in hotels, transforming how drinks are stored, dispensed, and experienced.

Now I'm assembling a small team to to build Glide 2.0, an evolved, refined, and highly scalable version.

If you want to build something iconic and own a real stake in it, keep reading.

What This Is:

• A founding-level role at a high-conviction, venture-backed startup
• You’ll own everything design, from product aesthetics and physical housing to internal mechanics and UI styling
• The lean prototype is already built and the capital raise is underway. Your start date begins after the raise closes (estimated 30 to 60 days)

What You’ll Own:

• Visual and industrial design across the entire product
• Internal component design, including joints, fasteners, and user-accessible parts
• End-user assembly instructions and manufacturing-ready files
• Contribution to software UI styling and polish (secondary to hardware)

You’re Likely a Fit If:

• You’ve shipped real physical products, either solo or at a lean startup
• You’re full-stack industrial design: CAD, prototyping, rendering, aesthetics, function
• You work fast, take ownership, and operate independently
• You care more about building something meaningful than collecting a paycheck

Do Not Apply If:

• You need a salary before the fundraise closes
• You have low risk tolerance. This is a high risk, high reward situation.
• You move slowly

Requirements:

• Must work on-site in Miami, FL.

What You Get:

• 2% equity and an $84K salary starting post-raise. With an increase to six figure salary expected within 24 months.
• A massive surface area of responsibility and creative control
• A chance to build something that will be used by millions
• No bureaucracy, only meritocracy