Senior Product Designer
About The Position
Lightning AI is seeking a Senior Product Designer to help design technology for the machine learning ecosystem. The role spans product, interaction, and visual design, with a focus on creating useful, enjoyable products. The designer will work across product and engineering and directly with users to test ideas, conduct research, and gather feedback, iterating from proof of concept through release. The role is part of the Design Team and reports to the Chief Creative Officer. It is hybrid, based primarily in the New York City office, with two in-office days per week; San Francisco is also an option, though New York City is preferred. The anticipated annual base salary is $160,000–$200,000. Eligible roles may also receive a discretionary bonus, equity, and benefits.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience designing B2C software or technical platforms.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product thinking across UX, interaction, and visual design.
- Experience collaborating with product managers, engineers, and researchers to iterate quickly and ship thoughtfully.
- Initiative and curiosity in engaging with the open source AI ecosystem and understanding the needs of individual contributors and enterprise AI teams.
- Ability to work with ambiguity across multiple product maturity levels, from early-stage prototypes to production features.
- Proficiency in Figma and modern design tools.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present design rationale clearly and influence cross-functional teams.
- A mindset of continuous learning, user advocacy, and pragmatic design execution.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in developer tools, AI/ML, or SaaS environments.
- Familiarity with technical concepts such as machine learning, APIs, or cloud infrastructure.
- Front-end coding experience.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams on the user experience, interface, interactions, and visual design of new and existing features.
- Partner in defining product strategy throughout the end-to-end development process.
- Create user journeys, flows, prototypes, and designs, including work from scratch and refinement of engineering prototypes or existing products.
- Identify design opportunities and drive continuous improvement based on business objectives, user requirements, and customer requests.
- Engage with the open source AI community and enterprise AI researchers and builders to understand real-world needs, workflows, and challenges, and apply those insights to product design.
- Reduce friction and usability issues to make onboarding and platform use easier from day one.
- Advocate for scalable, user-centered design systems and processes that improve design velocity, consistency, and impact.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents.
- RSUs.
- 401(k) matching in the U.S. and pension contributions in the U.K.
- Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and floating holidays.
- Two-week company-wide winter break.
- Paid parental and family leave.
- Annual learning and development allowance.
- Wellness and work-from-home stipends.
- Four weeks of paid sabbatical leave after four years of service.
- Flexible schedules and a hybrid work model for office-based teams.
- Complimentary meals at office hubs.
- Eligible roles may receive a discretionary bonus.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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