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"The details are not the details. They make the design."
โ Charles Eames
Senior Product Designer
Lightning Ai โข San Francisco, United States of America ๐บ๐ธ
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to shape user experience and design of features. Craft user journeys, prototypes, and designs while identifying design opportunities for continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to shape the user experience, interface, interactions, and visual design of new and existing features
- Craft user journeys, flows, prototypes, and designsโsometimes starting from scratch, other times by refining early engineering prototypes or providing design enhancements and guidance as products evolve
- Proactively identify design opportunities and drive continuous improvement based on business objectives, user requirements, and customer requests
- Engage with the open source AI community and enterprise AI researchers and builders to understand real-world needs, workflows, and challengesโbringing those insights directly into the product design process
- Discover creative ways to eliminate friction and reduce papercuts through design, making it easier for users to onboard and utilize our platform from day one
- Advocate for scalable, user-centered design systems and processes that improve design velocity, consistency, and impact across the product
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience designing B2C software or technical platforms, preferably in developer tools, AI/ML, or SaaS environments
- Strong portfolio showcasing end-to-end product thinking across UX, interaction, and visual design
- Experience working with product managers, engineers, and researchers to iterate quickly and ship thoughtfully
- Curiosity and initiative in engaging with the open source AI ecosystem
- Comfort working in ambiguity and across multiple product maturity levels
- Proficiency in Figma and modern design tools
- Familiarity with technical concepts like machine learning, APIs, or cloud infrastructure (not required, but a plus)
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present design rationale clearly and influence cross-functional teams
- A mindset of continuous learning, user advocacy, and pragmatic design execution
- Experience coding front-end is not required but a big plus!
Key Skills
- Proficiency in Figma and modern design tools
- Familiarity with technical concepts like machine learning, APIs, or cloud infrastructure (not required, but a plus)
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present design rationale clearly and influence cross-functional teams
- Experience coding front-end is not required but a big plus!
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries and stock options with a 25% one year cliff and monthly vesting thereafter
- Medical, dental and vision
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Flexible paid time off plus 1 week of winter closure
- Generous paid family leave benefits
- $500 monthly meal reimbursement, including groceries & food delivery services
- $500 one time home office stipend
- $1,000 annual learning & development stipend
- 100% Citibike membership (NYC only)
- $45/month gym membership
- Additional various medical and mental health services
About Lightning Ai
The AI development platform - From idea to AI, Lightning fast โก๏ธ. Code together. Prototype. Train on GPUs. Scale. Serve. From your browser - with zero setup. AI Studio is your laptop on the cloud. Zero setup. Always ready. Persistent storage and environments. Code on CPU. Debug on GPU. Scale to multi-node. Run sweeps, jobs and more. Scale models with PyTorch Lightning, Fabric, Lit-GPT, torchmetrics and more.
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