Staff Product Designer

Klarity•San Francisco, CA

9h•$250,000 - $313,000•Onsite

About The Position

Klarity is seeking a Staff Product Designer, a senior individual contributor who will act as a force multiplier across the product. This role involves leading complex and ambiguous design efforts from start to finish, setting high standards for design craft and the collaboration between design and code. The designer will be responsible for shaping the coherence of Klarity's AI-native enterprise product as a unified system. A key aspect of this role is bringing designs to life through working prototypes and directly into the product, working alongside engineers. The company values systems thinking and a proven track record of shipping products over formal degrees. Klarity believes that the most powerful Enterprise AI product can also be the most intuitive, and design is central to achieving this goal.

Requirements

A designer who ships and multiplies — Strong design foundation, you build your own work, and you make the designers around you better.
AI-native in how you think — AI is already core to how you work and reason about problems.
Exceptional craft and taste — Interaction, hierarchy, states, and edge cases are where you're at your best, and you set the quality bar others calibrate to.
A systems thinker at product scale — You understand how components, flows, and data combine into one coherent experience across our complex enterprise product, and you see cross-area collisions before they happen.
At home in ambiguity, high agency — You find the high-value problems, commit to a direction, and move strategy and people without authority.
Extensive experience designing complex software, a track record of leading ambiguous, high-impact work end to end, and examples of raising the bar across a team.

Nice To Haves

Have shipped front-end code — React, TypeScript, or similar — comfortable in the codebase.
Have set design direction across teams — you've been a force multiplier, not just an individual maker.
Have built AI-native products before — you've shipped real experiences on top of LLMs.

Responsibilities

Own a product area end to end — Take end-to-end ownership of a product area: lead its complex, strategic design problems from problem definition through a real, shipped experience.
Set the systems vision — Hold the whole product in view and keep it coherent as one experience as it scales — how flows, data, and product areas fit together — anticipating cross-area collisions and designing for them before they happen.
Define how design and code work together — Bring your designs into the product (with engineering alongside you), use AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) fluently, and establish the prototyping and shipping practices the team adopts.
Own AI-native UX patterns — Own end-to-end UX for AI-native and agentic workflows — human-in-the-loop oversight, transparency, trust calibration, and the evaluation criteria for what 'good' AI output looks like — contributing to setting the patterns the whole product follows.
Ground decisions in users and outcomes — Drive product discovery and user research to surface the right opportunities, drawing on both qualitative signals (interviews, usability testing) and quantitative data (product analytics, metrics, experiments). Define and measure the outcomes your work is accountable for.
Drive design-system strategy in the AI era — Own the design system itself — its components, tokens, patterns, and governance — so it scales across design and code and lets both people and AI produce consistent, accessible, on-brand UI fast. Set the guardrails that keep AI-assisted UI on-brand and coherent as the team and product grow.
Level up the team — Raise the craft bar through mentorship, feedback, and knowledge-sharing.