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UXDesigner
Space (sp-ce.co) · Remote · Full-time
TL;DR
- —Space, an AI-native brand agency, is hiring a UX Designer to design product and site experiences for funded companies at launch moments.
- —The machines have never been confused, which makes them useless as users; this role is the professional advocate for the confused stranger.
- —Evidence comes fast (synthetic panels, real transcripts, post-launch instrumentation) and actually gets used, because it arrives before the decision instead of after it.
- —We don't ship traps: a conversion built on confusion is a churn number with a delay, and the posting says so in writing.
- —Applying is three questions in a short form: one piece you shipped and now hate, the best idea you ever cut, and one thing in culture that makes you jealous.
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About Space
Space is an AI-native brand agency. Three always-on leaders, 82 on-demand specialists, zero juniors. 127 agents, 362 agentic workflows, 14 tools we built ourselves. We ship brand identities, websites, campaigns, and products for funded companies in weeks: Validere got strategy, a full rebrand, and a new site in 8 weeks, lifted inbound 31%, and closed a $43M Series B on the story. We grow entirely by word of mouth, and we publish our AI rules, our hiring bar, and our pricing logic at sp-ce.co/notes, because an agency that won't tell you where AI stops is telling you it doesn't know.
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The job
Confusion is a human experience, it happens in half a second, and it decides more revenue than most strategy decks. The machines have never felt it, which makes them useless as users; feeling it on a stranger's behalf, before the stranger exists, is this job.
Most UX careers are spent producing research that arrives after the decision: the usability report nobody reopens, the persona poster, the journey map laminated into irrelevance. Here the evidence arrives before the decision because the machines collapsed the wait. Synthetic panels pressure-test a flow between a Tuesday draft and a Wednesday review; real transcripts, tickets, and churn interviews land in your lap on day one; and launch is only day one, so live behavior grades your assumptions within weeks, while you're still on the engagement to act on it.
You'll design the experiences themselves: sites, products, onboarding, the flows where a funded company's story either converts or evaporates. And you'll hold one standing rule in every room: we don't ship traps. A conversion built on confusion is a churn number with a delay, and you're the person paid to say so to whoever needs to hear it.
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What you'll do
Design product and site experiences end to end, from flows to launch, in sprints measured in weeks.
Pressure-test everything before it exists: synthetic panels for speed, real humans where it counts, and the honesty to label which is which.
Dig in the evidence: session behavior, support tickets, churn interviews, the places users tell the truth without being asked.
Instrument the launch and stay for the grading. Real usage rewrites your assumptions, and you'll be there to rewrite the flows.
Advocate for the confused in rooms full of experts, which is every room, because expertise is where empathy for the lost goes quiet.
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What you won't do
Produce persona theater. If an artifact doesn't change a decision, it doesn't get made.
Ship a trap. No dark patterns, no cancellation mazes, no consent tricks, and you'll have this posting to point at when it comes up.
Wait a quarter for research. The wait is what made research decorative.
Manage juniors. There are none. Nobody learns the craft on a client's budget here.
Sit in status meetings, log timesheets, or build spec work for pitches. The machines and the model retired all three.
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Who you are
Senior, with shipped products and sites where a specific number moved because a specific confusion got fixed, and you can name both.
Level 4 or above on our published AI Fluency Ladder: you run the research machines hard and trust them exactly as far as their evidence.
Bilingual between evidence and instinct. You've overruled data with judgment and judgment with data, and you can say when each was right.
A translator. Founders, engineers, and strategists all leave your reviews knowing what to do next.
Calibrated about synthetic research: a sharper guess, faster, and never a substitute for watching one real human struggle.
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Who you aren't
A deliverables machine. Journey maps are means; shipped clarity is the end.
A dark-pattern pragmatist. If "it converts though" settles the argument for you, this will be a bad fit loudly.
Level 2 on the ladder: someone who ships whatever the model returns. That's worse than not using AI at all, and we said so in print.
Anonymous. Your name goes on the work, and we treat that as the perk it is.
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How to apply
No cover letter. No 90-page portfolio PDF. No resume upload, even. The application is three questions:
One piece of work you shipped and now hate, with the reason. Two hundred words max.
The best idea you ever cut, and why it was right to cut it.
One thing in culture right now that makes you jealous.
Use AI to answer if you like; we do. We'll be able to tell whether you reviewed it.
Comeargue.
Yes, this job description was drafted with AI. A named human rewrote it, cut a third of it, and will defend every line on a call. That's the entire model, and it's hiring.
Frequently asked questions
Both, honestly labeled. Synthetic panels answer "which of these five flows dies on contact" in a day. Real humans answer what synthetic ones can't, and knowing the difference is a hiring requirement.
Both, unapologetically. The role is real and open; the posting argues the model, because the model is the job.
Because the seat is sized to the person in it. You'll hear a real range in the first conversation, before you've invested anything beyond the three answers.
A named human reads all three answers. If they're real, we call you.