Lead Product Designer

The product team is seeking a Lead Product Designer with advanced expertise in crafting exceptional user experiences for technical tools. In this strategic role, you'll shape AI development tools while laying the foundation for our growing design organization.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the overall design and direction of Together products; Design and ship high-quality products and improvements, from early concepts to high-fidelity prototypes and visuals; Partner closely with engineering, product management, AI research, and design peers to define both long-term strategy and short-term tactics; Engage in user research to better understand our users and refine our products; Contribute to and evolve our design system; Own and improve shared components within the design system in collaboration with Engineering; Ensure strong implementation quality by partnering closely with Engineering throughout delivery; Maintain consistency and cohesion across product surfaces

Requirements

7+ of experience in a professional software product-driven environment; Advanced skills in UX and interaction design; Experience building developer tools, IDEs, infrastructure platforms, or data products; Demonstrated experience building, scaling, or significantly contributing to a production design system, including component architecture and cross-product consistency; Experienced in user research; Technical enough to learn about the needs of our users; Can consume and interpret user interaction data; Experience designing complex software used daily by technical users; Love thinking through complex interaction design problems; Get excited about being immersed in the AI ecosystem and defining how tooling for AI services should look and behave; Enjoy tackling ambiguous problems and shaping them into a clear vision; Excellent communication and storytelling skills; Creative problem-solving; Experience with data-informed design; High standards for visual, interaction, and product craftsmanship; Proven ability to ramp quickly in new technical environments; Experience designing enterprise software; Drive design vision for AI development tooling ecosystem; Partner with exec team on strategic product decisions; Develop scalable design practices for team growth; Foster cross-functional collaboration at senior levels; Champion user-centered culture across organization; Set and maintain a high bar for design quality and craft across teams; Promote consistent design standards and systems thinking across products

Nice to have

Long-term, priority-focused mindset; self-managing projects from start to finish; involving others outside your role; fast learner who can quickly ramp in complex technical domains; independently building context around AI and developer workflows; systematic, long-term approach to creative problem-solving

Benefits

startup equity; other competitive benefits