Founding Product Designer

About Us

Essential AI’s mission is to deepen the partnership between humans and computers, unlocking collaborative capabilities that far exceed what could be achieved today. We believe that building delightful end-user experiences requires innovating across the stack - from the UX all the way down to models that achieve the best user value per FLOP.

We believe that a small, focused team of motivated individuals can create outsized breakthroughs. We are building a world-class multi-disciplinary team who are excited to solve hard real-world AI problems. We are well-capitalized and supported by March Capital and Thrive Capital, with participation from AMD, Franklin Venture Partners, Google, KB Investment, NVIDIA.

The Role

As a founding member of our Product Design team, you will work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management, and research teams, to create user-centered designs.

We are building full-stack AI products that are trained to unlock collaborative capabilities that far exceed what could be achieved today; you will play a key role in defining our product interface and pioneering new capabilities in how enterprise workflow decisions can be automated at scale.

Location: This role is based in SF. We work five days a week onsite, and we are located in SoMA.

What you’ll be working on

• Lead the design of our product features and end-to-end user experience, ensuring the product is intuitive, visually appealing, and functionally sets the bar in the industry.

• Work closely with our design partners to understand how Essential’s product will integrate into their workflow.

• Imagine, design, iterate, and build beautiful UX patterns to rethink how companies and businesses will interact with data.

What we are looking for

• Have 5+ years of professional experience designing for web-based, prosumer SaaS applications (e.g. Notion, Figma, Miro, Canva) and tools. Are highly proficient in Figma.

• Have demonstrated deep interest and/or have prior exposure to design patterns for working with generative AI models.

• Have shipped 0→1 products and demonstrated ability to do rapid prototyping.

• Have built and maintained design systems/component libraries from scratch.

• Have a deep understanding of the end-to-end design process, from brainstorming to prototyping and visual design to post-launch research and iteration.

• Champion great design and UX patterns throughout our culture and product.

• Willingness to be scrappy and ship fast.

• (Bonus) You can write frontend code

We encourage you to apply for this position even if you don’t check all of the above requirements but want to spend time pushing on these techniques.

We are based in-person in SF and work fully onsite 5 days a week. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

The base pay range target for the role seniority described in this job description is up to $225,000 in San Francisco, CA. Final offer amounts depend on various job-related factors, including where you place on our internal performance ladders, which is based on factors including past work experience, relevant education, and performance on our interviews and our benchmarks against market compensation data. In addition to cash pay, full-time regular positions are eligible for equity, 401(k), health benefits, and other benefits like daily onsite lunches and snacks; some of these benefits may be available for part-time or temporary positions.

Essential AI commits to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment, as well as equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. You may view all of Essential AI’s recruiting notices here, including our EEO policy, recruitment scam notice, and recruitment agency policy.