Audit & positioning
We map what's already built, what's working and where you're really positioned — before a single spec gets written.
Your design partner to scale
A craft-led pod of senior product designers and managers who ship the work—and build the systems to keep it moving. Built for startups and scale-ups.
30+
start ups and scale ups we've worked with
$200M+
raised by those teams after we shipped
Trusted by the teams building it
SkyPD KinsBite ClubGruns
Journey FertilityCosmic ClashMindful AIWorkflow Labs
Built for wherever you are
Same senior pod, two different jobs to be done. See which one is you.
For start ups
You need a senior product designer who can move at your pace.
Hiring a founding designer is hard — most early teams get it wrong at least once, and a bad hire sets you back further than having no designer at all. Skip that risk: embed our senior pod for 3 months instead of locking into a 12-month salary and a slow search. We already understand the fabric of a startup, so there's no ramp-up — just research, UX, UI and the first version of a design system.
- No 6-month search and no hiring mistake to undo — embedded in 2 weeks
- 3 months of senior craft, not a 12-month contract you're stuck with
- A pod that already knows how startups move — no context-building required
- We craft the work, then build a design engine trained on your product strategy and DNA — so you can keep creating on-brand work long after we’re gone.
Typical stageSeed – Series A
Raised$1M – $10M
Team you get1 senior PD
Time to embedded2 weeks
Engagement3 months
For scale ups
You've raised $10M+ and now need a bigger design team to get you to the next milestone.
Your v1 worked. Now you're shipping across more surfaces, onboarding more customers, and your design system is starting to crack under its own weight. We plug in a full pod — PM, PD and specialists — to scale the system and keep quality high as headcount grows.
- A full pod — PM, senior PD and specialists on demand
- Design systems that scale — new modules produced on demand
- Coverage across every surface as your product — and team — grow
- We craft the work, then build a design engine trained on your product strategy and DNA — so you can keep creating on-brand work long after we’re gone.
Typical stageSeries B+
Raised$10M+
Team you getFull pod
Time to embedded2 weeks
Our process
Venture ready AI features roadmap
System thinking for AI-native products — the landscape mapped, the leverage points found, so every release builds on the last.
Team magic
Senior product designers and PMs putting real craft and taste into the work — not a junior bench learning on your budget.
Brand engine & design systems
Tokens, components and documentation that hold quality steady as the team, the surface area and the pace all grow.
4 weeks of launch support
We stay embedded through launch — fixing what breaks and tuning what ships, so momentum doesn't drop when we step back.
Who you'll work with
A small, senior pod of product designers and engineering-facing PMs. Hover a card to see their focus.
Marta P.
PDSenior Product Designer
End-to-end product design — from research to pixel-perfect UI.
Ida
PDSenior Product Designer
Design systems and UX — building the foundations that scale.
Ata
PDSenior Product Designer
UX and UI — clean, considered interfaces built to ship.
Secil
PDSenior Product Designer
Research and prototyping — testing ideas before they're built.
Funda
PDSenior Product Designer
Visual and interaction design — the layer that makes it feel considered.
Gokay
PMPM — Engineering
Partners directly with engineering to turn specs into shipped features.
Volkan
PMPM — Engineering
Bridges the roadmap and the sprint board with the engineering team.
Umut
PMPM — Engineering
Keeps engineering and design in lockstep from kickoff to release.
VC Design Partner. Your portfolio's competitive advantage.
- Embedded senior design support across your portfolio, on call when a founder needs it
- Vetted, senior product designers - no ramp-up, no hiring risk
- Preferential rates and priority scheduling for portfolio companies
Live from the design world
Posts from our own feeds and the people we watch. Updated by hand — see it, embed it.
Designer hiring designers.
No rigid job description.
If you're a senior product designer—specialist or generalist—exhausted by seeing the design role squeezed between other disciplines and ever-expanding expectations, join us.
GEN8 is building a more flexible, sustainable way for designers to do great work.
hello@gen8design.com →Hiring slows you down. We speed you up.
AI has changed how design gets done — we craft the work, then build a design engine trained on your product strategy and DNA, so you keep creating on-brand work long after we’re gone. Don’t pause your roadmap to hire: tell us what you're building and we can be embedded and shipping within two weeks.
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