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Sr. Product Designer - UX/UI & User Research (Contract to Hire)
Peopleconnect Staffing • San Francisco, United States of America 🇺🇸
You will be responsible for the end-to-end design of our core product, focusing on creating intuitive AI-first product experiences. This includes conducting user research, designing workflows, and collaborating with engineers to ship features used by millions.
Responsibilities
- Design conversational interfaces and AI chat experiences that feel natural and helpful
- Create intuitive workflows for complex AI outputs (generated content, data analysis, predictions)
- Solve novel UX challenges around AI transparency, explainability, and user trust
- Design adaptive interfaces that learn and personalize based on user behavior
- Own the complete design process for major product areas from 0-to-1
- Create comprehensive design systems that scale across web and mobile platforms
- Design onboarding flows that get users to 'aha' moments in under 60 seconds
- Build responsive, accessible experiences that work beautifully on all devices
- Plan and conduct user interviews, usability tests, and behavioral analysis
- Synthesize quantitative and qualitative data to drive product decisions
- Create user personas, journey maps, and opportunity frameworks
- Establish design principles and UX guidelines for AI-powered products
Requirements
- 7+ years of product design experience at fast-growing tech companies
- Strong portfolio showcasing end-to-end design process and shipped products
- Expert proficiency in Figma, prototyping tools, and modern design workflows
- Experience designing for AI/ML products, developer tools, or complex B2B software
- Proven track record of conducting user research and translating insights into design
- Experience with quantitative analysis, A/B testing, and data-driven design decisions
- Ability to balance user needs with business goals and technical constraints
- Strong advocate for accessibility, inclusive design, and design ethics
- Experience working closely with engineers and understanding technical trade-offs
- Familiarity with frontend development (HTML/CSS/React) for effective design handoffs
- Understanding of design system implementation and component-driven development
- Knowledge of AI/ML concepts and how they impact user experience design
- Excellent presentation skills and ability to articulate design decisions to stakeholders
- Experience mentoring junior designers and contributing to design culture
- Collaborative approach to cross-functional teamwork and stakeholder management
- Startup mindset with comfort in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Key Skills
- Figma
- Principle
- ProtoPie
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Maze
- UserTesting
- Hotjar
- Amplitude
- Mixpanel
- Linear
- Notion
- Slack
- GitHub
- React
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
About Peopleconnect Staffing
PeopleConnect is a full-service executive search firm specializing in the high tech, clean tech, and scientific industries. Our clients include global leaders in sound technology, startups with exciting alternative energy solutions, hot new properties in online gaming and social networking, and companies with biotech breakthroughs and emerging technologies that could change the world. Each search we undertake is unique, yet every search we do has the same objective: to find the perfect person for this specific company and situation. Our success is a result of our team of tenured executive recruiters, who know how to pinpoint exactly the type of candidate you’re looking for, and then go out and find that person. PeopleConnect works on a contingency basis, meaning that for full-salary positions, we don’t charge a fee until we find the person you want to hire. We place senior-level executives, managers and specialists in just about any area of a company, including sales, busi
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