Design Lead

Job Description

Job Description

About Us

Our mission is to drive human connection in the AI era. Bonfiire is delivering the world's best way to book in-person gatherings : a marketplace with the best venues, transparent pricing, and a three-click booking process. We're taking a truly zero-to-one approach in a market full of cumbersome RFP solutions that take weeks and dozens of steps to book a gathering.

We also have significant momentum. We currently serve more than 5% of the Fortune 500 as their system of record, we've processed over $100M in events, and have recently signed deals with Booking.com for Business and other major distributors. We've proven the model works. Now we're taking it to the next level with our new product and we need your help.

As our Lead Designer, you'll own the design that makes all of it feel inevitable. You'll establish the visual identity, interaction patterns, and design system across everything we ship.

What You'll Own End-to-End Product Design

Own UX flows, interaction design, and the full UI layer across consumer, enterprise, venue, and admin surfaces. Turn ambiguous concepts into intuitive journeys and elegant interfaces. Partner closely with engineering to ensure every pixel ships beautifully.

Define the Visual Language

Establish color, typography, visual hierarchy, components, and reusable patterns. Build a design system that enables fast iteration while maintaining cohesion across multiple products and surfaces.

Design for Multiple Audiences

Create experiences for consumers booking dinners, enterprises managing thousands of events, venues listing packages, and internal teams running operations. Design across responsive web, mobile, and new product prototypes.

Validate with Real Users

Talk directly to customers—hosts, planners, enterprise teams, venues. Run lightweight tests. Understand needs. Incorporate feedback. Influence product strategy through a design-first lens.

Cross Collaboration

Work with Sales, Marketplace, and Product leadership to understand the business case behind features. Craft designs that drive adoption, clarity, and delight. Shape strategy, not just screens.

You're a Fit If You Have

Passion for driving deeper human connection

Genuine curiosity and drive- you design in your free time

3–5 years of product design experience in fast-moving tech companies

A portfolio showing end-to-end ownership—from concept to shipped products

Strong interaction design skills and ability to simplify complex workflows

Proficiency in Figma with ability to move fast while maintaining craft

The ability to create clean, modern, premium-feeling interfaces

Comfort working directly with founders and engineers in a 0–1 environment

Collaborative, highly communicative working style

Bonus points :

• Marketplace or multi-sided platform experience
• Design system experience
• Fluid UI / Motion / Micro-interactions
• Excitement about AI-driven features

Why This Matters

Ownership : You define product experience and visual identity—not just executing tickets

Leverage : You're designing innovative products that have real impact

Upside : Meaningful early equity in a company on a strong path to industry leadership

Location

In-person out of our beautiful new office in Palo Alto, CA