Clove is on a mission to empower everyone to eat well, everyday.

From managing all your recipes in one place, deciding what to eat, and simplifying the tedious admin that makes it happen – Clove is re-imagining the future of home cooking.

Clove's founders, Anna and Sam, started Clove after experiencing the problem firsthand while building and growing Canva from launch into a global unicorn.

Clove is venture backed by world-class VC funds and angel investors including Blackbird Ventures (Aus), SHAKTI VC (US), and the founders of Canva and Google Maps.

Clove is a seed stage company – growing fast in the US, Europe and beyond.

About the role

Ready for the biggest role of your career?

As our Principal Designer, you'll drive the vision behind Clove's next product chapter, with a focus on agentic workflows.

This is a rare brief: agentic consumer design has no playbook yet. You'll help define what it looks like when AI actually runs a household kitchen – combining beautifully simple product experiences with intuitive AI technology.

The role is equal parts systems thinking and world-class consumer design. The right candidate will balance both, becoming the champion of exceptionally high design standards at Clove.

This is a 0-1 role that requires flexing across a range of design disciplines, ahead of building out our design team as we grow and scale.

The role

- Own the end-to-end product vision of Clove. Own the big picture experience and the little details, being the custodian of our world class product design standards.
- Design and dream the future. You'll spend time exploring the future – what technology is possible and how it can simplify everyday problems. Your job is to bring that future to millions of home cooks worldwide.
- Bridge the gap between vision and execution. Work closely with founders to translate vision and company goals into thoughtful designs — and create clarity for the engineering team to bring them to life.
- Design agentic workflows.



You'll be designing a world-first agentic vision – a product that driven workflows on users behalf. You'll deeply understand the mechanics behind the features, and directly build system prompts and agentic logic.
- Empathy led design. You'll regularly speak to customers through support and interviews, and ensure a transparent feedback loop back to the team building the product.
- Own a range of design projects. Design across product, marketing and brand — leaning into different areas as priorities change. You'll be the champion of what feels like Clove, and communicate it internally and to the world.

About you

- 5+ years designing consumer products, with a portfolio that shows both systems thinking and exceptional visual design standards.
- You're technically versed and genuinely interested in agentic systems — you've worked with LLMs and can designs systems, not just screens / brands.
- You communicate design decisions clearly and persuasively, bringing day-to-day clarity for engineers.
- You thrive in fast-paced environments, working autonomously and embracing ambiguity — you know when to keep it simple and when to go deep.
- You have a low ego and are impact driven, setting the tone for Clove's design discipline as we grow.
- Bonus: you have an interest in cooking and food!

Why Clove?

- Early stage impact. Be part of a small, dynamic team where your contributions truly matter.
- Get in early. Work on a fast growing global product with PMF, and accelerate the next stage of growth.
- Hybrid culture. Work flexibly, with at least two days a week in our Surry Hills office.
- Growth & rewards. Competitive salary + meaningful equity. Own a piece of what we're building.
- Design for a mission. Shape a product that solves the most universal, unsolved problem there is – deciding what to eat.

If your experience doesn't tick every box – but you love learning and have examples of rising to new challenges – we'd still love to hear from you.

We can't wait to meet you.

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📍 New South Wales