Product & engineering

Founding Designer

We’re looking for a Founding Designer to help define the future of accounting at Sanna. You’ll design core product experiences end-to-end, working closely with engineering, product, and accounting experts. This is a foundational role where taste, judgment, and systems thinking matter – and where design directly shapes trust, clarity, and scale in a high-stakes domain.

  • Agency
  • Product Design
  • AI-driven
  • End-to-End Design
  • Complex Workflows
  • Foundational Role
  • Global Scale
  • Systems Thinking
  • Accounting Tech

Why Sanna?

Sanna is building a new kind of accounting firm – designed from the ground up for a world where AI handles most of the manual work that has defined the industry for decades. We combine AI-driven workflows, modern technology, and deep professional expertise to deliver the peace of mind of a traditional accounting firm, while radically changing how the work is done behind the scenes.

We’re building Sanna with international scale in mind from day one. Starting with holding companies in Norway and expanding into operating companies globally, we’re creating a category-defining product in a domain where correctness, trust, and clarity are non-negotiable.

We’re a small, highly ambitious team building Sanna from Oslo and Stockholm with global reach. We value ownership, craft, and thoughtful speed – knowing when to move fast and when to be precise. Design is not a service function here; it’s a core part of how decisions are made and how quality is upheld across product and company.

What we're looking for

We value judgment, taste, agency, and learning ability over years of experience or specific tools.

  • Experience designing digital products for various platforms, ideally in complex, regulated, or data-heavy domains

  • Exceptional taste

  • Strong sense of agency

  • Strong product thinking with excellent visual and interaction design skills

  • Proven ability to simplify complex workflows into calm, intuitive experiences

  • Comfort working end-to-end – from problem framing to high-fidelity execution

  • Experience collaborating closely with engineers and understanding technical constraints

  • Curiosity for how AI can enable better, more invisible user experiences

  • Motivation to help build a product and design culture from an early stage

What you’ll doDesign the product redefining accounting, globally.

In one sentence: Design the core experience of Sanna, making accounting feel effortless, trustworthy, and human.

  • Design end-to-end product experiences, from early concepts to shipped features

  • Turn complex accounting workflows and regulatory requirements into clear, intuitive interfaces

  • Own design projects from conception to delivery, collaborating closely with engineering – and ideally implementing yourself with AI (we’ll train you – no worries)

  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and accountants to deeply understand user needs

  • Be scrappy and hands-on with any design assets needed

  • Contribute to and evolve Sanna’s design language and quality standards

  • Establish scalable design processes that uphold quality and consistency

  • Help set the bar for design quality and shape the culture for how design works at Sanna

What we offer

  • A key design role with real ownership and influence

  • A fast-moving environment with global ambitions and strong funding

  • Competitive salary and benefits

  • Meaningful ownership – all employees are owners at Sanna

  • Direct impact on a category-defining product

  • A steep learning curve with long-term growth opportunities

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What happens next

  • We review your application
  • We have a first call
  • You meet the team
Questions about the role?karen.rasmussen@sanna.co

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