Senior UX/UI Designer - Modern AI Platform
Company: Modern AI
Location: Location not specified (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-09-13
About this role
About Modern
Modern is an AI-native data and intelligence platform for commerce brands, and an ai Residency team that runs on it every day.
That second part matters more than it sounds. Our ai Residency team operates a portfolio of DTC brands using this exact platform: attribution, cohort analysis, media mix, creator performance, lifecycle. Every feature has already survived contact with real P&Ls and real clients before it reaches anyone else.
The Role
We've built something genuinely powerful. Now we want everyone to be able to use it.
The platform answers questions most tools in this category can't touch. Our engineering team built an engine with real depth. Sophisticated operators pick it up and don't want to work without it. That part is solved.
The opportunity is reach. Our market isn't only sophisticated growth teams. It's also the founder running an $8M skincare brand who knows their business cold and has never heard the word "incrementality." We want that person to get the same value from day one, and today the product assumes more context than they arrive with.
You're the first UX/UI Design hire. Your job is to make something powerful feel obvious, without making it any less powerful.
That second half is the hard part. The easy version of this role is to strip features out until it's simple. We don't want that. We want the depth fully preserved and the path to it made clear. Progressive disclosure, sane defaults, an interface that teaches you as you use it, and a first session that delivers a real answer before it asks you to understand anything.
What You'll Own
The product experience, end to end. Information architecture, core flows, onboarding, dashboards, data visualization, empty and error states, mobile. You'll audit what exists, decide what's broken, and make the case for the order in which we fix it.
Onboarding and time-to-value. The single highest-leverage surface in the product. A new user should reach a genuinely useful insight in their...