The role
- COMP
- $200K - $260K
- EQUITY
- Offers Equity
- LOCATION
- New York
- WORKPLACE
- On-site
- EXPERIENCE
- 5+ years
- VISA
- None, Visa transfers
- INDUSTRY
- AI, Software Development, B2B, Marketing
/roles — ROLE_155
Staff Product Designer
Venture-backed startup building AI teammates that create sales and marketing assets for revenue teams
The company
Well-funded AI company whose agent helps sales and marketing teams produce customer-facing work on their own, from landing pages and executive business cases to follow-ups and account-based campaigns.
- STAGE
- growth-stage
- FUNDING
- $70M+ raised
- TEAM
- ~20 people
- FOUNDED
- 2018
- BACKING
- backed by Sequoia, Y Combinator
JD — the work
About the role
A founding staff design role at a small AI company rebuilding go-to-market software from first principles. There is no inherited design system or established playbook: you would define how people direct the agent, the creative standards it follows, and the quality bar for its output, so that what it produces is something a strong seller would proudly send to a major account. The team is fully in-office in New York and iterates quickly across design, engineering, founders, and customers.
What you'll do
- Design the core surfaces where teams request, shape, review, edit, publish, and learn from AI-generated work
- Raise the agent's creative quality with engineering through better defaults, constraints, evals, and brand adherence
- Answer hard interaction questions, like how a seller steers an agent without project-managing it
- Shape product strategy and the roadmap with founders and engineers, prototyping ideas early
- Encode good taste into systems and feedback loops so output quality compounds
- Help reinvent the working model between designers, PMs, and engineers at an AI-first company
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of product design, with real shipped products people use, not just polished case studies
- Very high taste you can articulate, including why an AI-generated asset feels generic
- Daily hands-on work with AI tools, quick prototyping, and curiosity about interaction models beyond old SaaS habits
- Systems thinking paired with care for pixel-level detail, from strategy down to loading states
- Comfort with ambiguity and being early, and the candor to push back on founders and engineers constructively