Senior Lead Product Designer

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Our base salary range is $161,280 - $241,920, and in addition we have generous bonus plans to provide a competitive compensation package.

Who You Are:

Ai2 is looking for a Senior Lead Product Designer to build intuitive, elegant, and impactful user experiences across our growing portfolio of AI products and our website. In this role, you will transform complex AI concepts into visually compelling and intuitive experiences. You will work closely with research and engineering to drive high-impact projects that shape the future of AI products and user interactions.

This is a highly visible role for a bold, visionary designer with a strong visual design sense and deep UX expertise someone who can drive product design end to end, from framing user problems to delivering high-quality solutions that influence product direction.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and can balance strategic vision with hands-on execution, we'd love to hear from you.

The projects youll be working on are highly complex, on the bleeding edge of AI, and often have no precedent from which to borrow design patterns, so well be looking for someone with a demonstrated ability to think creatively and distill complicated research ideas into clear and intuitive user experiences from scratch.

Who We Are:

At Ai2, our design team shapes how people experience, understand, and interact with AI. From exploring open models in the Ai2 Playground to defining new interaction patterns for AI agents and the OlmoEarth platform. Were a small, collaborative team that works closely with researchers, engineers, and program managers to turn complex AI systems into meaningful user experiences. We value curiosity, collaboration, and a shared commitment to pushing the boundaries of AI-driven design and technology.

Your Next Challenge:

Key responsibilities of the role include:

Product & UX Design

• Own the end-to-end design process for complex, multi-surface AI products, from user research and information architecture to interaction design, prototypes, and visual polish.
• Translate complex technical and research concepts into simple, discoverable, and intuitive user experiences.
• Design interaction flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups using modern tools like Figma.
• Spearhead efforts to evaluate AI-based design tools to standardize and improve design workflows.
• Partner with PMs, engineers, and researchers to align product strategy, user needs, and technical feasibility.
• Work cross-functionally and nimbly to ensure consistent UX across products, demos, and research.

Design Systems & Frameworks

• Expand Ai2s UX design system, patterns, and components that enable fast iteration and consistent experiences.
• Define and evangelize scalable design frameworks that connect visual and interaction design to Ai2s broader mission.
• Contribute to and evolve a unified design language across projects.

Strategic Influence & Collaboration

• Drive design alignment across teams, clarifying priorities and ensuring design quality scales with impact.
• Partner with leadership to shape the long-term user experience strategy for Ai2s open models and tools.
• Communicate design rationale and trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to define mechanisms that improve design collaboration, velocity, and quality.
• Think creatively to invent and execute innovative solutions that present our research in ways that accelerate and expand impact

What Youll Need

• 12+ years of experience in UX, product, or interaction design for complex digital products.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating modern, user-centered design with measurable product impact.
• Expertise in end-to-end product design, from problem framing through polished UI execution.
• Proficiency in Figma and familiarity with research and prototyping tools.
• Proficiency with AI tools for rapid prototyping and iteration
• Solid understanding of user-centered design, accessibility, and responsive design best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to simplify complex systems, preferably in technical or AI-driven products.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to articulate design rationale to diverse audiences.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing for developer tools, AI interfaces, or >Know Your Rights compliance poster and the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision by clicking on their corresponding links.

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  Benefits:

  • Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, and an employee assistance program.
  • Team members are able to enroll in our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
  • Team members are able to enroll in our companys 401k plan.
  • Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
  • Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
  • Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses and can participate in the long-term incentive plan.

  Note: This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the team members(s) of this position. Team members will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the team member(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.