Staff Product Designer

Gitwit•Bentonville, AR

29d•$140,000 - $170,000•Onsite

About The Position

Gitwit is hiring a Staff Product Designer to lead product experience for new AI companies and establish the studio’s design quality standard. The role owns product experience from early concept through prototype, first launch, user learning, and iteration, typically leading one or two ventures across the year. The designer will shape ambiguous ideas into clear product decisions, work closely with users and cross-functional teams, and create polished, build-ready products, including design systems, resolved states, edge cases, and engineering specifications. The work is hands-on and zero-to-one: wireframing, planning features, prototyping with AI, observing users, testing assumptions, and iterating based on research and early usage signals. The designer will develop trustworthy AI workflows that account for uncertainty, changing outputs, human review, approvals, failure states, and next steps. The role also contributes reusable design practices and lessons across the studio so each new venture benefits from previous work. This is a high-trust, fast-moving role with incomplete information and close collaboration. It is not a remote position or a brand-design role, though the designer should care about how new ventures are presented. The role is based in Tulsa or Bentonville, with regular in-person presence and some flexibility to work from home when needed. Exceptional candidates may relocate.

Requirements

At least 5 years of hands-on product design experience.
Experience taking products from zero to one, including taking ambiguous product ideas from concept to launch for real businesses.
A portfolio of work that demonstrates product design experience and craft.
Strong command of typography, layout, hierarchy, color, and interaction, with a focus on finished, resolved work.
Strong product judgment under uncertainty, including the ability to develop multiple directions, choose one, explain why, and define what would disprove it.
Ability to design AI-native interactions and workflows that account for uncertainty, user trust, and human judgment.
Ability to synthesize interviews, observations, and usage signals into product direction and decisions.
Clear cross-functional communication with engineers, strategists, researchers, and venture leaders.
Comfort working quickly with incomplete information, high trust, and direct collaboration.
Willingness to work with the team in person in Tulsa or Bentonville; this is not a remote role.
Genuine curiosity about how AI is reshaping product design.

Responsibilities

Set and maintain the visual and interaction quality standard for the studio’s products.
Lead zero-to-one product design for new AI products from initial concept through first launch and iteration.
Resolve product states, edge cases, and interaction details to deliver finished experiences.
Design AI workflows that address variable outputs, uncertainty, human review, approvals, fallback paths, and clear next steps.
Generate design directions, assess tradeoffs, make decisions, and explain the rationale.
Prototype quickly to test assumptions and help the team learn before overbuilding.
Translate user observations, research, and usage signals into product hypotheses, experiments, and design decisions.
Collaborate closely with product strategists, researchers, engineers, designers, and venture leaders.
Create and maintain reusable design practices and foundations across the studio.
Capture and share lessons about AI product review, correction, approval, uncertainty, failure states, and user trust.
Develop early design systems, flows, states, and specifications that enable engineers to build quickly and consistently.
Support lightweight user tests and experiments, then turn early findings into prioritized design iterations.
Make clean product handoffs to founding teams when products and teams are ready.

Benefits

Competitive salary.
Meaningful equity in every venture the studio builds.
Eight weeks off per year: five weeks of vacation and three weeks of paid holidays.
Health, vision, and dental insurance, with 99% of employee premiums paid.
401(k) with a 4% match.
Life insurance.
Paid parental leave.
Cell phone reimbursement.
Monthly parking stipend.
Weekly team lunches.
Dog-friendly office.
Private office and collaborative workspaces.
High-trust, high-autonomy culture.
Opportunity to work on multiple high-impact ventures each year.