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Product Designer

newchat

hybridmidpermanentdesignproduct-management New York, NY 43 days ago via LinkedIn

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Tags

Product DesignConsumer ProductUX DesignPrototypingVisual SystemsUser FeedbackProduct Decision-MakingDesign for RetentionEarly-Stage StartupCollaboration

About the role

Role Overview

Product Designer for Setlog (newchat)—help define, design, and ship the future of a camera-first consumer app that makes everyday communication feel natural, expressive, and fun.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end design across core product experiences, from early ideas to polished, shipped work.
  • Collaborate closely with the founder and engineering team to shape product direction and make strong product decisions.
  • Turn ambiguous problems, user feedback, and emerging opportunities into simple, thoughtful experiences.
  • Design interactions, flows, visual systems, and prototypes.
  • Balance speed with quality, knowing when to explore and when to commit to clear decisions.

Requirements

  • Strong product design skills with a portfolio demonstrating excellent judgment.
  • Deep thinking about user motivations and how design decisions affect behavior, connection, and retention.
  • Highly responsive, proactive, and willing to take ownership.
  • Comfortable working in ambiguity and adapting quickly as priorities evolve.
  • Ability to zoom out for product/company direction while obsessing over key details.
  • Can bring original ideas, clearly articulate them, and execute at a high level.
  • Enjoys working in a very small team and contributing broadly.
  • Interested in shaping an early-stage consumer product where outcomes are still highly malleable.

Location / Work Setup

  • New York City preferred.
  • Remote-flexible; HQ is in NYC.

Compensation

  • Salary + equity.

About newchat

newchat is building Setlog, a camera-first consumer app focused on sharing everyday moments and staying close with friends. The product has millions of daily users in East Asia, with major communities in Japan and South Korea, and is expanding to the US.

Scraped 8/12/2026