Founding Product Designer

About the role

This is a rare chance to define the product experience for a new category: AI agents that participate in real engineering work. Archie needs to understand goals, ask smart clarifying questions, use engineering tools, show his work, collaborate with humans, and earn trust inside high-stakes industrial workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design the core user experience for Archie, including how engineers assign work, review results, inspect reasoning, compare alternatives, and share work back and forth with an AI teammate.
• Turn messy design-partner conversations into product flows, wireframes, prototypes, and crisp product decisions.
• Sit with users as they try Archie on real engineering tasks, watch where they get confused or skeptical, and redesign the experience until it clicks.
• Create prototypes that make abstract AI capabilities concrete for customers, investors, recruits, and internal teams.
• Build P-1 AI’s product design system, including interaction patterns, information hierarchy, visual language, and reusable components.
• Partner with frontend and AI engineers to ship product quickly, then tighten the experience through repeated cycles of user feedback.
• Help decide what Archie should expose, what it should hide, when it should ask for help, and how it should communicate uncertainty in high-trust engineering workflows.

Requirements

You have designed products for technical users where the underlying domain was complex, ambiguous, and/or expert-driven.

You can show a portfolio artifact where you personally turned a confusing workflow into a product experience that feels clear and powerful.

You are strong at interaction design, product architecture, prototyping, and visual craft.

You are comfortable working from first principles when there is no existing product category to copy.

You like spending time with users, especially when the feedback is messy, technical, or contradictory.

You can move between low-fidelity sketches, polished mockups, written product thinking, and implementation details without losing momentum.

Qualifications

You have a degree in Industrial Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

You have 5+ years of professional experience in product design, preferably in a technical domain.

You have experience working with cross-functional teams, including engineers, designers, and product managers.

You have a strong understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies.

You have excellent communication and collaboration skills, both verbal and written.

Skills

Strong interaction design skills, including the ability to translate complex technical concepts into intuitive user experiences.

Experience with rapid prototyping and user testing methods.

Ability to work effectively in a remote team setting and occasionally travel to San Mateo, CA.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity ownership

Healthcare, dental, vision

401(k) match

Unlimited PTO

Pay

N/A

Schedule

Remote (US/Canada) or San Mateo, CA

One week per month in San Mateo, CA