Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid, Northwest Hills office)
Schedule: Full-time
About Maestro
Maestro is building the future of luxury travel: a member experience where world-class human advisors and AI agents work side by side to plan and execute extraordinary trips. We're an early-stage, Austin-based startup with top-tier VC backing and a team that lives inside modern AI tools every day. We're small, moving fast, and building something people will love.
The Role
As our founding designer, you’ll own design end to end across product, brand, and everything in between. You'll define how Maestro looks, feels, and behaves across every touchpoint.
You’ll design the full member experience: our mobile app, travel advisor touchpoints, internal ops interfaces, and the AI agents woven throughout. You must care deeply about quality, whether a human or an AI is on the other end.
Our product and engineering teams live in Claude Code daily. You’ll be embedded in that process, shaping how AI shows up across the product rather than just designing around it. Using AI tools to move fast is core to how we work, and it’s non-negotiable for this role.
What You’ll Do
Design product flows, interfaces, and interaction details for our consumer app, advisor tools, and ops workflows
Shape how AI shows up in the product by designing agentic and human-in-the-loop experiences that feel effortless and trustworthy
Own the brand: identity, site, decks, and all company touchpoints
Prototype and test with real members and advisors, iterating quickly
Run design review and hold the quality bar as we ship, keeping standards high without slowing the team down
Set the design culture, systems, and quality standards future hires will inherit
What We’re Looking For
Senior or leadership-level experience at a startup, with the drive to run design without a playbook
A portfolio of shipped product work (not just concepts), especially consumer app design and operational backends (advisor tools, internal ops, dashboards)
Comfort with complex internal workflows and polished consumer surfaces alike
Fluency with modern design and AI tools (Figma, Claude, and the latest developments), plus a genuine excitement for AI-native experiences
Product-focused but able to flex into brand when needed
Speed and pragmatism: you ship and refine, rather than polish forever
Strong opinions about quality, loosely held about everything else
Location & Work Model
This is an 3 days a week in-person, hybrid role based in Austin, TX, out of our Northwest Hills office.
Compensation & Equity
As our founding design hire, you'll receive a meaningful equity stake plus salary.