Founding UX/UI Designer
Afori
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Barcelona, Spain
Posted on Feb 4, 2026
Founding UX/UI Designer
Barcelona
Design
In office
Full-time
Senior Product Manager
About Us
Afori is changing the way of work in one of the world’s largest industries - insurance.
We’re an AI-first company with a vision to enable the insurance industry to embrace an agentic world. We are doing this by crafting AI agents curated to the insurance industry that simplify brokers' everyday work. Our platform is designed to automate backoffice work, starting with the highest frequented tool - the email inbox. Afori AI understands insurance processes, eliminates manual workflows, and uncovers growth opportunities — all while fostering a culture of radical candor, high performance, and relentless problem-solving for our customers, while having a lot of fun🙂.
In just a few months, we have been able to launch a first product and onboarded the first users, raised a 12x oversubscribed €4m seed round from General Catalyst (early investors in Airbnb, Stripe, Mistral) and high profile angels (Mustafa Suleyman - CEO Microsoft AI, Alex Rinke - Founder&Co-CEO Celonis). We are an experienced founder team with deep sector understanding, as well as deep understanding of how to scale a startup, having built Insurtech unicorn wefox (peak valuation of €4.5bn) before. You will get the opportunity to join a fast-scaling startup as one of the first employees and significantly shape the future of the company and the insurance industry.
Our Core Values:
🎯 Customer Centricity: We iterate with high velocity until we solve the core problems of our customers.
✨ Simplicity: We love simple solutions.
🛡️ Honesty: We live radical candor and psychological safety.
🔧 Hands-On Approach: We take ownership and deliver.
🏆 Dream Team: We play to win! And we always win together and we lose together.
✅ Solutions: Don’t worry, there is always a solution.
Your Impact
As the founding UX/UI Designer at Afori, you will own the end-to-end user experience for our AI-powered product that simplify's the brokers every day work. You will turn complex processes, insurance context, and AI-driven automations into simple, elegant, intuitive user journeys.
Your work will directly shape how thousands of insurance professionals experience AI in their daily workflows; from Outlook-based inbox workflows to deep operational processes and agentic task flows.
This is a role for someone who loves transforming messy workflows into beautiful clarity and designing products that customers immediately understand and love.
Key Responsibilities:
- User Experience Ownership: Lead the UX/UI across our core product, from research to design to launch.
- Interface Design: Create simple, beautiful, intuitive designs for complex insurance workflows (email classification, automation flows, task orchestration, document insights, etc.).
- User Research: Run interviews, shadow brokers, and test prototypes with real users to validate assumptions early and often.
- Design for AI: Craft interfaces that explain AI decisions, enable trust, and empower brokers to work seamlessly with agentic workflows.
- Rapid Prototyping: Develop prototypes (low- and high-fidelity) to test ideas quickly with customers and engineering.
- Design System Creation: Build and maintain our first design system to ensure consistency, simplicity, and speed.
- Shipping Mindset: Work end-to-end with engineering to ensure implementation quality and iterate fast after launch.
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years UX/UI design experience in SaaS, B2B, or workflow tools
- Strong portfolio focused on simplifying complex workflows
- Fluency in Figma and modern design workflows
- Experience with user research and iterative design
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
Nice to have
- Experience with AI products or automation tools
- Fintech / Insurtech / CRM design background
- Basic frontend understanding (React)
- Able to speak German
Cultural Fit:
- You thrive in a high-performance team that debates ideas fiercely but unites behind decisions.
- You’re hands-on: You do not stop until 100% of the task is delivered and enjoy shipping fast
- You embody “there’s always a solution”—no task is too ambiguous.
Why Join Us?
- Collaborate with a small team of top-tier engineers, startup specialists, and industry veterans
- Embrace AI on daily bases, you will be able to use agentic development tools like cursor or github copilot
- Shape the future of insurance broking with AI that solves real-world problems.
- Radical candor culture: Your voice matters—no hierarchy, just results.
- Grow with us: Competitive salary and equity stake in a high-potential AI startup.
- Live in Barcelona ☀️☀️☀️
Compensation & Benefits
- Base Salary: Competitive, based on experience.
- Team bonus: Based on achieving team results.
- Equity: Stock options in a fast-growing company.
- Team Work: As a fast-growing company and team, we value working together, in person, but of course offer flexibility when needed
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