Lead Product Designer

The Lead Product Designer will own the end-to-end design process for complex AI products, translating technical concepts into intuitive user experiences. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to align product strategy and user needs while ensuring design quality and impact.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design process for complex, multi-surface AI products, from user research and information architecture to interaction design, prototypes, and visual polish.
• Translate complex technical and research concepts into simple, discoverable, and intuitive user experiences.
• Design interaction flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups using modern tools like Figma.
• Partner with PMs, engineers, and researchers to align product strategy, user needs, and technical feasibility.
• Build and maintain reusable design systems, patterns, and components that enable fast iteration and consistent experiences.
• Define and evangelize scalable design frameworks that connect visual and interaction design to Ai2’s broader mission.
• Contribute to and evolve a unified design language across projects.
• Drive design alignment across teams, clarifying priorities and ensuring design quality scales with impact.
• Partner with leadership to shape the long-term user experience strategy for Ai2’s open models and tools.
• Communicate design rationale and trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to define mechanisms that improve design collaboration, velocity, and quality.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in UX, product, or interaction design for complex digital products.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating modern, user-centered design with measurable product impact.
• Expertise in end-to-end product design, from problem framing through polished UI execution.
• Proficiency in Figma and familiarity with research and prototyping tools.
• Solid understanding of user-centered design, accessibility, and responsive design best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to simplify complex systems, preferably in technical or AI-driven products.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to articulate design rationale to diverse audiences.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.

Key Skills

• Fluency in Figma
• Familiarity with research and prototyping tools
• User-centered design
• Accessibility
• Responsive design
• Simplifying complex systems
• Exceptional communication skills
• Articulating design rationale

Benefits

• Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and an employee assistance program.
• Team members are able to enroll in our voluntary life insurance program, our voluntary accidental death and dismemberment program, our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
• Team members are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
• Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
• Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses and can participate in the long-term incentive plan.