Founding Designer - Code-First - Remote

4w1 month ago

neoBIM GmbH

DE · Full-time · €70,000 – €85,000

About this role

neoBIM is a cutting-edge startup transforming the construction industry with AI-powered Building Information Modeling. Co-founded by industry pioneers, the company aims to make BIM smarter, faster and more collaborative. We are hiring a founding designer to own the look, feel, and design system of our product from day one.

In this role, you will collapse the traditional design-to-handoff pipeline by expressing intent directly in code. You will prototype using AI assistance (Claude) and treat the running product as the source of truth. Your work will span the entire product surface, from 3D canvas viewport controls to property panels and onboarding flows.

You will work in a tight loop with engineers, where handoff mostly means a code review rather than a translation. You will also shape the brand and marketing surface as the company grows. This role offers direct access to founders with no design-by-committee layers.

As a founding designer, you will have founding-level ownership of design at a well-backed startup with a credible team in the AEC/3D space. You will define how a category of professional 3D tooling looks and feels for the next decade. The environment is remote-first, flexible, and focused on deep tech and real-world application.

Requirements

You work in code (HTML/CSS/React) and are comfortable using tools like Claude to turn ideas into a working UI—the terminal and a component file don't scare you
You have experience designing for 3D, spatial, or canvas-based software—a shipped tool, serious side project, or deep experience with Blender, Rhino, SketchUp, Cinema 4D, Spline, or a game engine
You understand viewport controls, gizmos, camera behaviour, and the seam between 2D UI and a live 3D scene
You have designed with shadcn/ui and understand how its tokens, variants, and primitives compose
You have a strong icon and illustration eye—you can produce this work or direct freelancers to a consistent result
You design with light/dark mode and responsiveness from the start, not as an afterthought

Responsibilities

Define and build our design system in code using shadcn/ui as the foundation — tokens, variants, modes, responsive behaviour, and accessibility
Prototype directly in code with AI assistance (Claude) so what you design is already buildable and lives in the codebase
Design the entire product surface from 3D canvas and viewport controls to property panels, dashboards, and onboarding flows
Own iconography and illustration—either craft our icon set and product illustrations yourself or art-direct freelancers to deliver a consistent visual language
Work in a tight loop with engineers where handoff means a code review, not a translation
Shape the brand and marketing surface as the company grows

Benefits

Founding-level ownership of design at a well-backed startup with a credible founding team in the AEC/3D space
Direct access to the founders with no design-by-committee layers
The chance to define how a category of professional 3D tooling looks and feels for the next decade
Flexibility with a remote-first work environment and a great team that shapes the future