--- title: "Remote Product Designer, Open to Roles | Utkarsh Panwar" description: "Founding Product Designer at CodeAnt AI (YC W24), open to full-time or contract product designer and design engineer roles. Remote from India. Resume inside." url: https://www.utkarshdesign.com/open-to-roles author: Utkarsh Dhairya Panwar updated: 2026-10-08 --- # Founding product designer, open to new roles Service · Updated 8 Oct 2026 **I'm Utkarsh Dhairya Panwar, an IIT Roorkee graduate and Founding Product Designer at CodeAnt AI (YC W24), and I'm open to my next role, full-time or contract, as a founding product designer, product designer or design engineer. I work remotely from India, design in Figma, ship sites in Framer and build prototypes with AI coding tools.** ## Roles I'm open to | Title | What fits | | --- | --- | | Founding Product Designer / Founding Designer | An early design hire at a startup, working directly with the founders and owning product, website and brand. | | Product Designer | A product team with a real problem to own end to end, especially B2B SaaS, AI products and developer tools. | | Design Engineer | A role where the designer ships websites in Framer and builds working prototypes, not one that needs production front-end code (see below). | - Engagement: full-time or contract. - Location: remote, based in India. I'm happy to agree overlap hours with your team's time zone. - Product areas I know best: AI products, developer tools, B2B SaaS and payments. ## What I've done CodeAnt AI is a code health platform for AI code review, security scanning and code quality. As its founding designer I own product design, the Framer site, the brand and the design system, and over that stretch its valuation has gone from zero to $60M. - **800+** companies using CodeAnt - **40,000+** developers using the UX weekly - **2×** trial-to-paid after the onboarding redesign - **35%** less org-level triage time with manager dashboards The onboarding work that doubled trial-to-paid is written up in full in the trial-to-paid guide, including the admin-approval problem behind it. - xPay (YC W24), Product Design Intern, Jan to May 2024: checkout UX for live demos, a reusable UI system of 25+ components, and 10+ Framer go-to-market pages restructured for search. - FamPay (YC S19), UX Design Intern, Aug to Nov 2023: voucher clarity that cut voucher support tickets 80%, and redesigned iOS payment error states. - Sportskeeda, UX Design Intern, Apr to Jul 2023: NFL and IPL live-score pages for 20M+ monthly users. - Freelance work for 15+ brands, including websites for Zania and Entvin. > Working with Utkarsh is like compressing five years of design into a single month. His speed, taste, and craft consistently push our brand to new heights. > (Amartya Jha, Co-founder, CodeAnt AI (YC W24)) ## How I build, stated plainly Figma is where I design. Production websites I design and build in Framer myself, as an Official Framer Expert. For ideas that need to be clicked before engineering commits, I build working prototypes and small tools by directing AI coding tools. I don't write production code in any programming language. If the role's requirements say you'll ship production front-end code, I'm not the right person for it, and I'd rather say that here than in a third interview. If it's a design engineer role where shipping means the website, prototypes and a design system engineers can build from, I fit. [What is a design engineer?](https://www.utkarshdesign.com/glossary/design-engineer): The spectrum from designers who ship in Framer to engineers who write production front-end code, and where I sit on it. ## Resume and case studies [Resume](https://www.utkarshdesign.com/resume): Roles, dates, results and credentials: IIT Roorkee B.Tech, Official Framer Expert, Awwwards Young Jury 2026. [CodeAnt AI case study](https://www.utkarshdesign.com/work/codeant-ai): Founding designer at a YC W24 code health platform: the activation work, the product and the website. [FamPay case study](https://www.utkarshdesign.com/work/fampay): How the one-time voucher rule was made visible at purchase and redemption. ## How to reach me Email the job description to work@utkarshdesign.com, or pick a 30-minute slot on cal.com/utkarsh-design/30min. The contact page also lists WhatsApp and LinkedIn. ## Questions people ask ### Who designed CodeAnt AI? I did. I've been CodeAnt AI's founding designer since June 2024 and designed its product, its Framer website at codeant.ai, the brand and the design system, as the company grew from $0 to a $60M valuation and 800+ companies. ### Is Utkarsh Panwar open to full-time roles? Yes, and to contract work too. The titles that fit are founding product designer, product designer and design engineer, with me working remotely from India. ### Where did Utkarsh Panwar study? At IIT Roorkee (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee), where I earned a B.Tech and led design for E-Summit, the institute's entrepreneurship summit. I won or placed in several campus and national design competitions there. ### Are you open to contract or remote roles? Yes. I'm open to full-time and contract roles, fully remote. I already work remotely with teams in the US, UK, Europe, the Gulf, Singapore and India. ### When can you start? For a full-time role my notice period is 30 days. Contract and freelance work can start immediately. ### Are you open to relocating? Yes, I'm open to relocating for the right role. I'd need visa sponsorship to work outside India. ### What salary are you looking for? For a full-time role, a base salary above ₹40 lakh a year. For contract work my rate is $50 an hour. ### Which tools do you work in? Whatever your team already uses. I design in Figma and build sites in Framer, and I'm comfortable picking up any tracker, docs or chat tool on day one. ### Can you work with American or European time zones? I work remotely from India and I'm happy to agree overlap hours with your team at the start, plus async updates outside them. ### Do you code? Not production code, in any language. I ship websites in Framer and make prototypes and small tools by directing AI coding tools. ### Where is your resume? On the resume page of this site, alongside case studies for CodeAnt AI, FamPay and E-Summit. ## Sources 1. [CodeAnt AI: Autonomous offensive and defensive cybersecurity platform](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/codeant-ai), Y Combinator 2. [Utkarsh Dhairya Panwar (@utkarsh-dhairya-panwar)](https://www.framer.com/@utkarsh-dhairya-panwar/), Framer Community ## Start a project Tell me what you're building and where it's stuck: [book a 30-minute call](https://cal.com/utkarsh-design/30min), email [work@utkarshdesign.com](mailto:work@utkarshdesign.com) or [send a brief](https://www.utkarshdesign.com/contact). ## Related - [Resume](https://www.utkarshdesign.com/resume) - [CodeAnt AI (YC W24)](https://www.utkarshdesign.com/work/codeant-ai) - [What is a design engineer?](https://www.utkarshdesign.com/glossary/design-engineer) - [What a founding designer is, and how to hire one](https://www.utkarshdesign.com/guides/hiring-your-founding-designer) --- Utkarsh Dhairya Panwar, Founding Product Designer and Design Engineer (IIT Roorkee; Founding Designer at CodeAnt AI, YC W24). 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