Founding Designer
What We Do
Axe builds AI agents for logistics and supply chain operations.
Logistics is a trillion-euro industry still powered by billions of phone calls, emails, and spreadsheets. Axe replaces this manual work with intelligent AI agents - so human teams can focus on high-impact, strategic work.
Founded by James McElroy and Dan Quill (exits to Blackstone and Wayflyer), Axe has grown rapidly in its first 7 months. We now operate across Europe and the U.S., partnering with some of the world’s largest logistics providers and backed by top tier EU VC's. You can learn more about our vision in our Manifesto.
We’re building a world-class team to create a generational AI company and modernise how the physical economy runs.
About the Role
This is a high-ownership role for a founding designer who wants to move fast and solve real customer problems inside one of the world’s largest, most complex industries - logistics.
At Axe, design is not about polishing mockups. You will own the full end-to-end design process. You’ll be our first full-time designer and will take ownership of UX and UI across the entire product surface — from voice interfaces to AI-driven workflows to dense operational dashboards. The problems are messy. The stakes are real. The impact is massive. You’ll be creating the design foundations that will scale with us as we build a category-defining company.
What You Will Do
Work directly with customers to understand their workflows and design solutions that meaningfully improve speed, accuracy, and daily operations.
Own the design process end-to-end for new features — from discovery to high-fidelity prototypes to production.
Identify new AI product opportunities, explore concepts, and build prototypes alongside customers and our engineering team.
Invent intuitive interfaces for an AI-first world where traditional UI patterns don’t apply — including conversational, voice, and autonomous-agent UX.
Collaborate deeply with engineering to ship high-quality features quickly, with tight feedback loops and a bias for action.
Your Profile
Experience designing UX and UI for software products, ideally in early-stage startups or B2B SaaS environments.
Strong attention to detail with exceptional interaction design, visual design, and design system skills.
You go beyond static screens — you build interactive prototypes using tools like v0, Lovable, Cursor, or advanced Figma prototyping.
You enjoy talking to customers, uncovering pain points, and driving the full design lifecycle independently.
You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and learn quickly from real-world feedback.
You care about real craftsmanship: polished interfaces, clean interactions, and production-quality output.
You have a strong interest in AI, LLMs, and voice UX — and you’re excited about designing workflows that integrate deeply with autonomous agents.
What Makes You a Great Fit
You tale ownership, velocity, clarity, customer obsession.
You want full responsibility over outcomes — not just tasks.
You're excited to work in-person with us in Dublin.
You know how to succeed in a high-ambiguity, high-growth environment.
You prioritise ruthlessly and focus on the highest-leverage work.
You want to work with a sharp, driven, low-ego team.
You want to help build a multi-billion dollar AI company from the ground up.
You have a strong portfolio that demonstrates thinking, workflows, iteration, and product impact — not just pretty visuals.
Why join us?
Be part of a fast-growing, VC-backed AI company redefining a massive industry.
Work directly with experienced founders who have scaled and exited companies before.
Huge career growth opportunities as we scale across Europe and the US.
High ownership, high impact your work directly shapes customer success.
Competitive salary + performance bonuses.
Join the early team building Europe’s next AI powerhouse.
Key Benefits
Stock-options
Health Insurance
Generous Paid Time Off - work hard and take the time you need
Annual company-wide offsite