August is building the future of legal work. Our agentic AI transforms how lawyers retrieve knowledge, reason through documents, and automate complex workflows giving legal teams a massive edge.
We're a high-energy team backed by Tier 1 VCs. In just a few months, we've landed law firms and have seen 4x growth last quarter and we're growing fast.
Founded by alumni of Wachtell Lipton, Blackstone, DoorDash, Columbia, and NYU Law, we're in the earliest innings of a generational shift. Join us and help redefine how legal work gets done.
The Opportunity
August is building AGI for law. Our agents mimic a lawyers' reasoning, research, and drafting, and our workflows already outperform lawyers in third-party evaluations. We're targeting mid-market law firms, automating their legal work and allowing them to provide our tools directly to their clients. Join August at an early stage as we scale our agents to process thousands of documents simultaneously and create outputs exceeding human-level accuracy.
As a Founding Designer at August, you'll own the design function end-to-endshaping the product experience, refining our brand identity, and setting the design culture. You'll work closely with the founders, engineers, and legal experts to craft intuitive interfaces for complex AI workflows and create a brand that resonates with law firms worldwide
What You'll Do
- Lead design for product and brandowning UI/UX, visual identity, and marketing materials.
- Translate complex legal AI workflows into simple, intuitive user experiences.
- Partner with engineers to prototype, test, and ship AI-native interfaces at speed.
- Develop a consistent visual language across product, website, and external communications.
- Help build the foundation of August's design culture, processes, and standards.
About You
- 2+ years of professional design experience (product, brand, or both).
- Strong portfolio showcasing polished product design and/or brand systems.
- Proficiency with modern design tools (Figma or equivalent) and comfort with rapid iteration.
- Ability to design elegant solutions for complex workflows.
- Comfortable working at an early stage company with ownership and autonomy.
Why Join August
- Founding Impact: Shape not just your role but the company.
- Uncapped Upside: Competitive base + commission, early equity ownership.
- Top-tier Team: Work alongside people who move fast, think clearly, and care deeply.
- Category-Defining Work: Help build the first true AI agents for the legal profession.
- Fast Growth: Scale your career as we scale the company.
- Exceptional Early Traction: >4x revenue growth in the past four months.
- Global Reach: Our clients span 4 continents and use August in multiple languages and jurisdictions
- Frontier of Applied AI: August has access to proprietary data inaccessible to foundation model providers. We build agents to automate all challenging knowledge work.
- Strategic investors: Backed by NEA and exceptional seed investors Pear VC and Afore Capital, August has the capital to execute
Compensation Range: $135K - $200K