There's a lot about your interview process that signals to a design candidate. If you're looking for someone whose eyes light up and they get really excited when they think about helping people express ideas, that is a selling point. The only thing I would add to this is make a competitive offer. You want to look at the market data and anchor to a percentage so there's consistency across your teams.
Tome CPO and co-founder Henri Liriani and Katy Amaya of the Greylock talent team discuss the rising importance of founding designers at startups and share best practices for building strong design teams. While past generations of startups could get away with focusing purely on the technical aspects of their product in the initial stages and bring design teams later, today's startups are living in the age following an explosion of consumer apps (and the subsequent push for consumerization of enterprise software) that has resulted in a heavy focus on the end user experience. Good design is now a critical part of a company's success.
You can read a transcript of this interview here: https://greylock.com/greymatter/designed-with-purpose/
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