Edlink
Founding Designer
🇺🇸
Austin, TX
🕑
Full-Time
💰
$130K - $160K
💻
Design
🗓️
February 11th, 2026
SaaS
Edtech.com's Summary
Edlink is hiring a Founding Designer to lead and own the entire design process across product, web, marketing, and brand work. The role involves building foundational design systems, defining the company's design language, and ensuring design quality supports faster engineering and marketing delivery as the company scales.
Highlights
- Own end-to-end design for product, web, marketing collateral, physical print, and brand assets
- Build and implement foundational design systems and reusable patterns
- Define and maintain Edlink’s design language aligned with brand trajectory
- Collaborate closely with engineers, marketers, leadership, and clients
- Required skills include strong multi-disciplinary design experience and high communication ability
- Nice to have startup experience, especially Seed/Series A, and B2B SaaS or workflow-heavy product design
- Compensation ranges from $130,000 to $160,000 base salary plus early-stage stock options
- Benefits include health, dental, vision insurance, PTO, sick leave, and working on a senior small team
- In-office role in Austin, Texas with significant ownership and autonomy
- Focus on fast iteration and shipping across multiple media types (product, web, print)
Founding Designer Full Description
Who We Are
Edlink takes on some of the toughest problems in educational technology. We help turn bad data into good data to make it fast and easy for learning platforms to integrate with school data systems. Our API helps over 60 million people at 5,000 districts & universities access the learning platforms they use every day.
We’re a small but fast-growing startup based in Austin, Texas (26 team members). We’re high-performing, opinionated, and focused on building things that last.
This is an opportunity to be Edlink’s first design leader and define how the product (and company) looks, feels, and works as we scale.
Who You Are
- A high-agency designer with a multi-disciplinary portfolio
- Comfortable owning the design process from problem definition to shipped work
- Strong communicator who works well with engineers, marketers, leadership, and clients
- Comfortable in ambiguity and excited by fast iteration
- A student of design in general; someone for whom art & aesthetics is more than just a 9-to-5
Nice to have
- Startup experience (Seed / Series A)
- Experience with B2B SaaS, admin tools, or workflow-heavy products
- Experience building early design systems
Years of experience matter far less than the quality of your work.
What You’ll Be Up To
As Edlink’s first Designer, you will:
- Own design end-to-end across for virtually all pixels we ship
- This includes a bit of everything: product design, web, marketing & sales collateral, physical print, brand work, etc.
- Build foundational design systems and reusable patterns as the product scales
- Define and implement our design language
Success in This Role Looks Like
- Design is beautiful, clear, consistent, and aligns with our brand trajectory
- Engineering ships faster thanks to reusable patterns and high-quality specs
- Marketing ships faster thanks to reusable templates and guidelines
- Design becomes a competitive advantage for Edlink as we scale
Who This Role is Perfect For
- You want real ownership and impact, not just a small piece of a design org
- You like shipping real work and iterating fast
- You like to design for various media types (i.e. product, web, print)
- You want to help define a critical component at an early-stage company
- You want to work in-person with a high-performing team in Austin
Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary: $130,000 – $160,000
- Equity: Stock options included (early-stage, meaningful ownership)
Additional benefits:
- In-office role in Austin, TX
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- PTO and sick leave
- Small, senior team with real ownership and autonomy
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