By the RoleDawn team · Published · Updated
As of October 7, 2026, 40 companies started posting Design roles in the last 30 days, including GreenLite, Klim and PAC NYC. 1 of the job posts call the role "founding" or "first". RoleDawn finds them by checking company career pages every day for a team that is new on their board; the full live list, with a link to every job post, is at roledawn.com/first-hire/design.
| Company | Role posted | Country | Detected | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GreenLite | Senior Product Designer | United States | 2026-10-07 | New on their board |
| Klim | Senior Product Designer (m/f/d) | Germany | 2026-10-07 | New on their board |
| Blueground | Marketing Designer | Greece | 2026-10-07 | Likely new team · inferred |
| PAC NYC | Graphic Designer | United States | 2026-10-07 | New on their board |
| Loancrate | Senior Product Designer | United States | 2026-10-06 | New on their board |
| Monarch Money | Product Designer, Growth (Senior/Staff) | United States | 2026-10-06 | New on their board |
| Goodstack | Senior Product Designer | United Kingdom | 2026-10-06 | New on their board |
| Quantum | Junior Product Designer | United Kingdom | 2026-10-06 | New on their board |
| Goodlord | Junior Designer | United Kingdom | 2026-10-06 | New on their board |
| Envato | Product Designer - Visual Craft | Australia | 2026-10-06 | Likely new team · inferred |
| Foxelli Group | Senior AI Filmmaker | 100% Remote | Lithuania | 2026-10-06 | Likely new team · inferred |
| Crytek | Junior Technical Audio Designer | Germany | 2026-10-06 | Likely new team · inferred |
| HappyCo | Senior Product Designer | Canada | 2026-10-06 | Likely new team · inferred |
| WorkWave | Product Designer | United Kingdom | 2026-10-06 | Likely new team · inferred |
| Alertus Technologies | Senior UX Designer | United States | 2026-10-06 | Likely new team · inferred |
Showing the 15 most recent of 40. See the full live list of new Design teams →
By the country of the job post: United States (15), United Kingdom (9), Germany (2), Israel (2), Greece (1) and Australia (1); 4 remote or with no country given.
1 of these company also started a new Product Management or UX Research team in the same 30 days: Klim (Product Management).
A first designer standardizes on design tools, design systems, prototyping and asset management. The weeks around the hire are when those decisions get made, which makes the job post a timely, specific reason to reach out. It is a timing signal, not proof of budget.
RoleDawn checks 4,481 company career pages on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, Recruitee and Workday every day, sorts every title into one of 43 role families, and flags a company the first time a Design role appears on its board. Each row is labelled "New on their board" or "Likely new team · inferred"; see the full definitions.
RoleDawn keeps the history of every role family each company has posted on its own careers page. "New on their board" means a Design role appeared on a board where we had already recorded postings and had never seen that family. "Likely new team · inferred" is an estimate for boards we only recently started tracking. Neither is proof the company never had the role, and a posting is not proof of budget.
Job postings that companies publish on their own Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, Recruitee and Workday boards. No LinkedIn scraping and no personal contact data. Staffing agencies and intern, temporary or contractor roles are left out.
Yes. This page and the live list at roledawn.com/first-hire/design are public with no signup. A RoleDawn subscription (flat $49 / $99 / $199 per month, 14-day free trial, no card) sends new matches to Slack or email every morning.
Every tracked careers page is re-read about once a day and this page is rebuilt from the latest data. The "Updated" date at the top shows when.
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