About the Role
- kapa.ai makes technical knowledge instantly accessible through AI assistants.
- 200+ leading companies including OpenAI, Docker, Mixpanel, n8n, Monday.com, Grafana, Logitech, Deepgram, and Nokia already use Kapa on their websites or internally for their teams.
- As a Founding Designer, you will work directly with the founders and take end-to-end ownership of design.
- This is a rare opportunity to join a fast-growing AI company and design state-of-the-art AI experiences used by millions of users every month.
- You will be the first dedicated design hire, shaping everything from core product UX to brand identity, website, and collateral.
- You will work with a team of 25+ stacked with former founders and operators from NASA, McKinsey, BCG, Airbnb, Uber, CERN, and Goldman Sachs.
- The company is backed by Initialized Capital (Garry Tan, YC President & Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder), Amjad Masad & Michele Catasta (Founder & VP of AI at Replit), Douwe Kiela (Stanford Professor, co-author of the original RAG paper, founder of Contextual AI), OpenAI engineers, and Y Combinator (S23).
- This role is high-stakes and high-autonomy; you will own both product design and brand design, turning complex AI capabilities into simple, delightful experiences.
- Location: Denmark / Remote (Europe).
What You'll Be Doing
- Own end-to-end product design for Kapa’s core experiences (UX, UI, flows, interaction design).
- Design and evolve Kapa’s brand identity across website, docs, and marketing collateral.
- Work closely with founders and engineers to quickly turn ideas into high-fidelity designs and interactive prototypes.
What You'll Bring
Exceptionally strong product and brand design skills.
Based in Copenhagen (or EU and willing to travel at least once a quarter to Copenhagen).
Nice to Have
Technical chops to implement small front-end changes yourself, with strong front-end engineers available to support you.
Strong affinity for cutting-edge AI tooling (e.g., if you’ve ever had 7 Claude code instances running in parallel).
Compensation & Benefits
- $75K - $125K.
- 0.05% - 0.10% equity.
Interview Process
- Intro chat with a founder.
- Paid take-home assignment based on a real design problem.
- 2–3 day paid work trial (in-office in Copenhagen) to collaborate with the team and assess culture fit.
About kapa.ai
- kapa.ai makes it easy for technical companies to build AI assistants.
- Companies like Docker, Grafana and Mixpanel deploy kapa as a chat interface on their public documentation to answer developer questions, as a first line of defense on their support forms to reduce tickets, or as an internal assistant for their GTM teams to navigate their own complex product.
- We leverage companies' existing technical knowledge sources including documentation, tutorials, forum posts, Slack channels, GitHub issues and many more to generate AI assistants that can handle complicated technical questions.
- More than 200 companies use kapa and we have answered more than 10 million questions to date.
- Founded: 2023.
- Part of Y Combinator Batch S23.
- Team Size: 22.