A regular job posting looking for a designer would say that you'd work to create a brand identity. It would say you can translate complex ideas into elegant designs and create graphics and interfaces for use in the digital and physical world. It would ask that you push for innovation both aesthetically and technologically.

Here is the thing: I am not sure if those are the skills that will help or what it means to be aesthetically innovative. I think design is about how things work and how people interact with it just as much as it is about how things look. Other than that, I know that we don't know enough. So we are in the market looking to hire the first designer in our quickly growing company.

This is who we are: Kash is a Y Combinator company. We are on a mission to change how people pay for things because the credit card system is broken.

Credit cards are an invention of the 1950s. Every payment ‘innovation’ since then has been built on top of a pre-mobile architecture while taxing both consumers and businesses alike. Forcing credit card debt on families, charging massive fees, and hurting local retailers. It is frequently the case that credit card industry makes way more money from a retail store than the store’s owners themselves do.

At Kash, we are on a mission to end the credit card monopoly and to replace it with an ethical payment option - one that helps retailers and one that consumers love.

This is who you are:

You care about watching how people do things. You care about retail. Ideally, you dislike big massive slow companies. But even if you don't, that's okay.

You can show us what you’ve built in the past and what you’re passionate about. Ideally you are as much into physical design as you are into digital design. If you've designed shoes, medical devices, store signage and you think you'd be good at digital UX & UI, we're probably looking for you.

Why You Should Join Us: - Opportunity to be one of the first employees of a fast growing and promising startup - literally we've emptied out a desk next to the CEO's desk for you. - Work on something that will really change the world - Competitive salary and meaningful equity - Flat org chart - Solve difficult yet interesting problems

Location:

Kash is headquartered in San Francisco with an office in Waterloo, Canada. This position is in San Francisco.