Member of Technical Staff: UX/UI Product Designer

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.

We are looking for founding member of our Design team, and who will work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management, and research teams, to create user-centered designs.

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 fully onsite 5 days a week. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.