Founding Designer (Code-First / 100% Remote)

neoBIM is a cutting‑edge startup transforming the construction industry with AI‑powered Building Information Modeling (BIM). Co‑founded by industry pioneers, the company is on a mission to make BIM smarter, faster and more collaborative. With a growing team, neoBIM offers an innovative work environment, a flexible culture and the chance to work on impactful global projects. We're hiring our founding designer to own the look, feel, and design system of the product from day one — and to do it in a way that's collapsing the old design-to-handoff pipeline. How we think about design here The traditional loop is: design in Figma → hand off → engineers translate to code → drift sets in → repeat. We don't want that. Tools like Claude now let designers express intent directly in code, working in the real design system instead of a mirror of it. So the only translation step left is designer-code → production-code — far closer, far less lossy. We're not dogmatic about never opening a canvas to think. But the designer we want is someone who reaches for code as their primary medium and treats the running product as the source of truth. Tasks • Define and build our design system in code, using shadcn/ui as the foundation — tokens, variants, modes, responsive behaviour, accessibility • Prototype directly in code with AI assistance (Claude), so what you "design" is already buildable and lives in the codebase • Design the entire product surface — from the 3D canvas and viewport controls to property panels, dashboards, and onboarding flows • Own iconography and illustration: either craft our icon set and product illustrations yourself, or art-direct freelancers to deliver a consistent, high-quality visual language • Work in a tight loop with engineers, where "handoff" mostly means a code review, not a translation • Shape the brand and marketing surface as the company grows Requirements This role is for a designer who thinks in systems, understands software constraints, an