Founding Product Designer

Effective AI•San Francisco, CA

1d•$160,000 - $240,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Effective AI is building the operating system for insurance. Insurance teams work across market data, product rules, regulatory filings, pricing models, and disconnected systems. Effective AI brings that work into one source-backed operating view. Our agents help actuarial, product, and underwriting teams research, analyze, draft, and execute, while experts retain judgment, review, and accountability. We are a 20-person team backed by Lightspeed and Valor, with a product in production and paying customers. Our mission is to help experts do more of the work people depend on.

Requirements

3+ years of relevant product design experience and are ready to operate with senior-level ownership.
Portfolio shows excellent interaction and visual craft, clear personal contribution, and a track record of turning complex systems or multi-step workflows into simple experiences.
Hands-on experience designing or building with AI agents and are comfortable using modern AI tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent.
Move fast without lowering the craft bar, reason from first principles, and can distinguish a behavior or systems problem from a styling problem.
Collaborate closely with engineering and product, explain decisions clearly, and create patterns that help others make good design decisions without needing you to own every screen.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing for enterprise or business users, especially in regulated, analytical, or document-heavy domains.
Comfort with HTML/CSS and contributing to a shared component system such as Storybook.

Responsibilities

Define how non-engineers work with AI agents across complex, high-stakes insurance workflows.
Shape the systems, guardrails, and interaction patterns that make powerful AI clear, controllable, and trustworthy, moving from early product thinking through shipped details with customers, insurance experts, founders, and engineers.
Turn dense enterprise workflows and complex systems into simple, coherent product experiences by learning directly from customers and insurance experts.
Design agent experiences that make the system’s plan, progress, evidence, uncertainty, approvals, and recovery clear, and give users the right moments to steer or step in.
Prototype and ship quickly with engineering, using Figma and modern AI building tools to move from rough ideas to polished, implemented interactions.
Create reusable interaction patterns and lightweight design-system foundations, including components engineers can use independently, so design quality scales without becoming a bottleneck.