Sr. Product Designer
About The Position
Ande is a Series A startup building an AI-native platform that connects enterprises and hospitality across the booking experience. Its platform helps companies plan, book, and manage corporate events, ranging from individual dinners to full corporate entertainment programs, and integrates with tools companies already use. Ande is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Sierra Ventures, and Bain Capital, and has offices in New York City and San Francisco. The Senior Product Designer (UX/UI) will own the experience for a major product area on Ande’s AI-powered enterprise platform. This role sets the direction for how users plan, book, and manage corporate events, and is accountable for the experience from problem framing through launch and ongoing iteration. The designer will shape AI-driven workflows, conduct user research, influence broader experience strategy, collaborate on roadmap and trade-offs, and steward the design system. Ande is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. It welcomes applications from all qualified candidates and considers applicants without regard to legally protected status.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of experience in UX or Product Design, including meaningful experience in B2B, enterprise SaaS, or complex workflow-driven products.
- A portfolio of end-to-end initiatives led and shipped, with clear evidence of outcomes driven by the work.
- Excellent UX fundamentals and a repeatable approach to structuring undefined problems.
- Deep experience designing multi-step, multi-user processes with operational complexity.
- A track record of simplifying complex enterprise workflows.
- Experience independently conducting user research, including recruiting, sessions, and synthesis.
- Ability to build alignment across cross-functional partners and senior stakeholders.
- Proficiency with modern design tools such as Figma, Claude Design, and Claude Code, and comfort working at strategic and tactical levels.
- Portfolio evidence of AI competency and experimentation, or a well-formed point of view on what distinguishes good AI-powered products from bad ones.
Nice To Haves
- Experience shipping an AI-powered product.
- Experience as an early or founding designer at a startup.
- Experience with event planning or event management software, travel, expense management, fintech, or adjacent enterprise platforms.
- Experience designing for marketplaces.
- Experience designing for native iOS mobile.
- Front-end literacy, including the ability to read code, prototype in code, or reason about components and systems.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end experience for a major product area, from problem framing through launch and iteration, and remain accountable for its quality over time.
- Design simple, AI-driven workflows for complex enterprise work, determining where AI acts independently, where it makes suggestions, and where people retain control.
- Plan and conduct user sessions independently, synthesize findings, and translate them into product direction.
- Design workflows for all involved users, including requesters, approvers, and administrators.
- Influence experience strategy beyond the assigned product area by identifying cross-cutting patterns, recognizing product inconsistencies, and advocating for improvements.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations on roadmap and trade-off decisions.
- Steward and extend the design system, exercising judgment about when to follow existing patterns and when to depart from them.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
