About Adapt

Adapt is the company agent platform that makes every company instantly AI native. We believe every company will have a central company agent. A powerful, universal AI harness that works across the systems, tools, data, and people that make up the business. One place to ask, build, analyze, automate, and act across the company’s internal operations.

Today, people connect the dots between disconnected tools. We’re building the infrastructure that lets the company agent do that work through persistent memory, secure compute, deep integrations, reusable skills, and enterprise controls.

Adapt was founded by Jim Benton, Sean Smith, and John Andrew Entwistle, repeat founders and operators who have built and scaled successful technology companies. Jim co-founded ClearSlide, led Apollo.io, and ran Chorus.ai through its $575 million sale to ZoomInfo. Sean founded GlareDB and helped build Coder’s early infrastructure. John Andrew co-founded Coder and founded Wander, the leading luxury travel marketplace.

We’ve raised $13 million from Headline, Activant, Susa Ventures, and accomplished operators and angels. Adapt offers the ownership and influence of joining at the earliest stage, backed by the experience, ambition, and capital to build an enduring company. You’ll work directly with the founders and help make foundational decisions about the product, culture, and company future employees will inherit.

About the role

As our founding designer, you'll own how companies set up, use, and control their agent. You'll take work from customer conversations through prototypes, implementation, and launch, shaping both the product and the design function as we grow.

This role is in person at our Presidio office in San Francisco, five days a week. We're open to relocation for the right candidate.

What you'll do

• Design clear experiences across Slack and web for setup, integrations, agent behavior, and control.
• Build a code-backed design system that engineers and coding agents use by default.
• Work with engineers to ship and refine everything from core flows to product copy and visual details.
• Talk directly with customers and turn friction into shipped improvements.
• Set the product quality bar and help bring launches to life through demos and supporting visuals.

About You

• 5+ years of product design experience, ideally in AI, developer tools, infrastructure, or enterprise software.
• A portfolio showing complex systems made understandable and ownership from customer problem to shipped product.
• Expertise in Figma and comfort writing frontend code, including HTML, CSS, and ideally React.
• Strong interaction, visual, and product-copy craft, informed by regular use of frontier AI tools.

Benefits

• Equity in an early-stage company.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, subject to plan terms and eligibility.
• Top-tier equipment and the peripherals you need.
• Access to frontier AI tools and Adapt.
• Daily catered lunch, snacks, and coffee in our Presidio office.

San Francisco base salary is $180,000-$230,000, based on role-related skills and experience. Total compensation also includes equity and benefits.

Adapt is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, disability, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Contact recruiting for reasonable accommodations. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification.