Founding lead Product Designer

Job description

Raison is on a mission to provide humans with better skills so they can feel confident and have more opportunities in the AI era. We help companies make sure 100% their teams master AI, directly in the flow of work (Teams, Slack) so that AI knowledge spreads across the organization instead of pooling in a handful of champions. We are passionate entrepreneurs believing that the ongoing AI revolution should be shared by all employees; and that the future of corporate interactions should not be restricted to private human-machine chats. Raison is capturing what champions create with AI, turning it into shared, governed skills, and propagating them so everyone feels capable and empowered; acting as a powerful lever to accelerate the AI transformation of corporates. We recently raised €2m from a top French VC + BPI and a selection of high-profile business angels who believe AI mastery is the highest-leverage application of AI inside companies. Tasks User Research & Discovery Own field research: contextual inquiry, user interviews, and observation of how teams actually work with AI and where it breaks. Build and maintain a deep understanding of our core users — individual contributors, champions, managers, and corporate buyers — and the context they operate in. Synthesize messy field data into sharp, actionable insight: jobs-to-be-done, adoption blockers, and the conditions under which a skill transfers between people. Establish a continuous discovery habit so research is a foundational reflex, and champion the user's perspective in every product decision. Product & Experience Design What our experts do by hand today is the spec for what the product must automate tomorrow. Your job is to watch that closely enough to design it. Design the surfaces: the client dashboard execs present to their board, the internal console our experts use to run a dozen live communities at once, and the conversations themselves. Most of our product lives inside someone else's client. You are designing in Teams and Slack, not screens we control — no onboarding, no landing page, no second chance. A four-minute message to an accountant who has never opened Copilot is the hardest design problem we have. Work mostly on enterprise, and partly on higher education, where we also have live deployments. Two audiences, two vocabularies, one product: part of your job is deciding what stays shared…