Product Designer

About us

Ascending AI is a stealth-mode AI startup supporting safe and efficient AI. Our mission is to facilitate technology that respects human autonomy, preserves meaningful choices and protects long-term goals. We create systems that enhance rather than replace human decision-making. The company is funded with EUR 5m in cash from the founders who have had multiple successful exits in cloud computing and cybersecurity.

What we are building

Our first product will be the communication, which helps people manage, understand and improve how they connect with others. It maps your social network, provides insight into your communication patterns, and helps you make more intentional choices in your relationships. This is our first product. It’s focused, quickly shippable, and expected to meet immediate demand. For us it is a start for something with impact and scale.

Where we're headed

This is the first step toward something bigger. We believe AI should work for people, not shape them.

Our long-term goal is the Guardian Agent. We believed that in a world where AI is becoming increasingly persuasive and ambient, ther is a need for an intelligent system that helps people live in alignment with their values and long-term goals. The guardian agent will protect autonomy, filter out digital noise, and strengthen decision-making. We are ready to move quickly in order to implement our vision.

We are not looking for someone to polish screens. We are looking for a product designer who sees interaction as insight, visual systems as emotion, and interface as a way to help people feel and reflect.

You will:

• Design the core interface for our first product.

• Create clear, expressive ways to show relationship health, emotional balance and communication patterns.

• Work directly with founders and engineers from concept to launch.

• Prototype quickly and test in real contexts.

• Shape the visual tone and interaction language from the ground up.

This is a remote or hybrid role. We work primarily in the Central European time zone and expect candidates to be within +/- 3 hours of CET. At this stage, close alignment matters - so occasional early mornings or late evenings may be needed to sync with the team.

It might be a fit if you

• Have strong and proven visual and interaction design skills across layout, flow, motion and clarity.

• Have designed and shipped full product experiences, ideally from zero to one.

• Ideally have experience with consumer products, gamification, virality etc.

• Are used to create in a quick release cycle.

• Are curious about human communication, psychology and self-awareness.

Why join us now?

• You will define how the product looks, feels and flows.

• You will help create a space people return to with trust and intention.

• You will join a stable company with EUR 5m of funding.

• We have the ambition to become a big AI company with a global impact.

• You will work in a small team, side-by-side with the founders and colleagues in both product and tech.

• You will have exposure to state-of-the-art AI developments.

• You will build systems designed to serve humanity, not just making some process