We help startups hire the best designers. Faster.
We'll magically book you calls with 3-5 vetted designers every week — so you can find and hire a full-time designer quickly and easily.
Get 3-4 calls per week booked with vetted designers hand-picked for your role.
Want to chat before you sign up? Book a 10-min call.
Trusted by startups backed by top investors
Used by portfolio co's of top investors
Design Advising
Fractional Head of Design
Design Recruiting
Hear from our customers
I felt like we got the best candidates through working with DesignBake. [You...] effectively supercharged our recruiting [...] doing a lot of outreach to candidates who were passively looking, and that just proved to be massively successful.
Nate Mihalovich, Founder & CEO at Revv
I fully recommend DesignBake. They basically take care of all the parts of the process that are difficult — crafting copy, finding candidates, coming up with scripts for phone interviews, design assessments [...].
Thenuka Karunaratne, Founder at Flixed
Reach the best designers. On autopilot.
Here is how we helped a VC-funded startup hire a Head of Design in New York 🚀
Sourcing Criteria 🎯
Head of Design
- Seed stage startup
- NY-based
- Hybrid in-person role
- 8+ years experience
- Ideally an under-represented candidate
40
vetted designers emailed weekly
10%
interviewed for the role
2
final offers made to candidates
Result ✨
1 Head of Design hired
Get a steady flow of vetted design candidates
1. You tell us who you're looking for, and we'll scout 100s of design portfolios weekly for you.
2. You get 3-5 vetted, qualified designers booked on your calendar to interview every week.
3. We iterate with you weekly till you find the best possible designer to hire as a full-time team member.
We specialize in design roles
With first-hand experience as startup designers, we deeply understand & empathize with who you’re looking for.
Founding Designers
Heads of Design
Chief Design Officers
Senior Product Designers
UX Engineers
UX Researchers
Reach the best design talent on the internet.
The best designers get hired before they’re even on the market — we are building a talent network of the best ones to bring them to you.
Meticulous sourcing
We carefully source + vet design portfolios for quality and experience
Data-driven approach
We report on data weekly and iterate with you to maximize candidate leads
Outbound engine
We'll manage 1000s of outbound emails monthly to help you reach top talent
High bar for talent
We are designers ourselves and can deeply understand what you're looking for
Higher reply rates
37.5% reply rate compared to industry average of 18.8% (source)
Layoffs talent
We'll automatically monitor, screen and reach out to recently laid-off talent
Design Processes
We'll help you design and plan your design hiring process effectively
Comp benchmarks
We'll help you effectively design competitive comp packages to close hires
Reach passive talent
The best designers are hired before they're even available on the market.
Pricing
$2.5k/mo
fully credited towards a 20% success fee on hire
- Calls booked with 3-5 vetted designers per week.
- 1-on-1 support and guidance on all aspects of the design hiring process from interviewing to closing a hire.
100% money-back guarantee if you're not happy in the first 2 weeks of working with us.
Get 3-4 calls per week booked with vetted designers hand-picked for your role.
Want to chat before you sign up? Book a 10-min call.
Have questions?
Learn more about how DesignBake works and how we can help you.
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FAQs
We believe hiring a world-class designer requires mutual commitment from us and you. We charge a subscription fee to ensure that the founders we work with have skin in the game and are serious about matching our pace. Our subscription fees are 100% credited towards the success fee on hire, so we’re both incentive-aligned to move quickly and find the best candidate for the role.
Yes, we have a 6-week placement guarantee. If you’re not happy with your hire in the first 6 weeks of their employment, we'll find you a new hire at no additional cost.