Founding Product Designer — Careers

About the role & the team

We’re looking for a senior product designer with strong opinions and the ability to lead projects end-to-end to join Tsuga.

You’ll be working hand-in-hand with Marine, our first founding designer, and report directly to our CTO Seb.

As our second designer, you’ll help build foundations, shape standards, and you will be consistently involved in product decisions.

Tsuga is an observability and monitoring platform for developers. It helps engineering teams control, monitor and fix their infrastructure. It’s a complex, data-heavy environment where clarity, structure, and strong product thinking matter deeply.

You will benefit from a big play-ground as everything needs to be done, you will have lots of freedom and autonomy regarding product, design system and data visualisation.

Your main missions will be:

Get your hands dirty with observability to understand our product and users
Work hand-in-hand with product and engineering team
Co-own and evolve the design system
Use AI tools such as Codex and Claude to test your ideas faster
Build strong experience and lead design solutions end-to-end
Create high-fidelity solutions in Figma
Contribute to product strategy
Establish principles, rules, and standards that define our product
Align product experience with our evolving marketing brand
Communicate and advocate for your design decisions clearly
Iterate quickly based on feedback and customer needs. We are a startup, and we need to move fast to improve features or respond to new requests

About you & what we are looking for

We need someone pragmatic, with a builder mentality, that will enjoy crafting thoughtful experiences, refining details, and develop the product within a fast-pace environment.

You are

Highly autonomous and proactive
Opinionated, you enjoy debating ideas constructively
Comfortable switching contexts frequently
Not afraid to challenge decisions and rethink existing solutions
Open to feedback and willing to rethink decisions when needed
Working on Figma

You have

Excellent UI craft. This is essential. As one of two designers, you genuinely enjoy crafting high-quality interfaces and sweating the details. You care about typography, spacing, hierarchy, and visual consistency, and you take pride in delivering polished, high-fidelity work.
Strong UX thinking. We regularly tackle complex problems. You’re able to transform complexity into smooth, intuitive, and structured experiences. You know how to simplify without oversimplifying.
Experience building or scaling design systems. There isn’t a dedicated design system owner, we will co-own, evolve, and maintain it together. You’re comfortable defining standards, structuring components, and ensuring consistency at scale.
Strong collaboration with frontend engineers. At Tsuga, design and frontend work very closely together. You’re comfortable communicating frequently with engineers, aligning on constraints and opportunities, and sometimes collaborating directly to refine solutions and ensure a cohesive experience.

Working at Tsuga

As an early-stage company, we optimize for speed, ownership, with fast feedback loops, and people who can adapt quickly as the company scales.

We believe in high trust, kindness towards each other, and blameless execution: when things break, we focus on solving the problem and improving the system rather than pointing fingers.

We are looking for people who are respectfully curious, direct in their communication, and comfortable asking questions early.

All employees gather at the French office once a quarter to celebrate together and get on board with the company’s goals. It’s a unique opportunity to get to know every coworkers working from USA, Middle-east, or every other European country!

Perks & benefits

Lunch vouchers for French employees
Unlimited snacks at the office
Referral allocation 5k€
Generous employee stock-options
Clear targets for each team along with trust and autonomy
Parental leave: Tsuga offers a fully paid parental leave policy, including 32 additional company-funded days for the non-birthing parent with flexible usage options, while guaranteeing full salary coverage during parental and childcare leave
Remote friendly: we have a lot of full remote workers and for others based in the Paris office, we expect them to come 3 days per week at the office