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Lead Product Designer

Wordware (yc S24) β€’ San Francisco, United States of America πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

Onsite Full-time Senior

Wordware is seeking a Product Designer to join their team and reimagine how humans collaborate with AI, designing intuitive interfaces for AI agent creation and collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Design experiences that bridge the gap between human intent and AI capability, making the complex feel magical
  • Design end-to-end user flows for AI agent creation, from natural language input to deployment
  • Work platform agnostically - you should be comfortable working on mobile interfaces, desktop, and responsive web
  • Develop interaction patterns for real-time feedback where the assistant comes alive in the experience, while surfacing the right plumbing and mechanics needed in a delightful unobtrusive way
  • Build and maintain our design system, ensuring consistency across rapidly evolving product surfaces
  • Prototype novel interfaces using real AI models to validate design decisions with actual system behavior and real users
  • Partner with engineering to ensure designs perform beautifully at scale
  • Conduct user research to uncover unmet needs and opportunities
  • Design for progressive disclosure, revealing complexity only when users need it
  • Create motion and micro-interactions that make synchronous and asynchronous AI processes feel responsive
  • Influence product strategy by identifying opportunities through design exploration

Requirements

  • Designed complex products that achieved both usability and adoption goals
  • Demonstrate deep understanding of information and interaction architecture for multi-platform systems
  • Show expertise in interaction design, including keyboard-first interfaces
  • Bring strong visual design skills with proven ability to create cohesive, scalable design systems
  • Excel at prototyping, from paper sketches to high-fidelity interactive demos
  • Understand interface development concepts and limitations for mobile and web to design feasible solutions
  • Navigate ambiguity comfortably, creating structure from undefined problem spaces
  • Communicate design rationale effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Balance user needs with technical constraints without compromising on quality
  • Show evidence of shipping products that pushed the boundaries of what's possible
  • Demonstrate systems thinking and ability to see connections others miss

Key Skills

  • Built products using LLMs or other AI technologies as a designer or builder
  • Digital native who leverages AI as a creative partner - using generative models and AI tools as a real competitive advantage in your workflow
  • Thrive in an AI-native environment where pushing boundaries with these tools is part of the daily practice
  • Motion design skills for creating fluid, responsive interfaces
  • Code proficiency enabling you to build functional prototypes or contribute to implementation
  • Experience with design engineering, bridging design and development workflows
  • Track record of designing for uncertainty and evolving system capabilities
  • Background in conversational UI or natural language interfaces
  • Published writing or talks about product design
  • Experience designing for both technical and non-technical users in the same product

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