Staff Product Designer (PST)

About the role

This is a Staff Product Designer role within Deepgram, a leading platform in the Voice AI economy. The ideal candidate will set the standard for end-to-end design quality across high-stakes surfaces, drive the design system from AI-ready to AI-native, and shape how the team operates.

Responsibilities

• Set the standard for end-to-end design quality across high-stakes surfaces — experience-driven, enterprise-grade, AI observability, and agent interfaces — from early concepts through production.
• Design for the full complexity of our domain: developer workflows, API and SDK experiences, and evaluator journeys — accounting for user needs, technical constraints, and business viability.
• Deliver interaction design and prototypes at a level of craft that sets the standard for the team.
• Drive our design system from AI-ready to AI-native — embedding AI into how the team designs, generates components, and maintains systems, with measurable improvements in speed, quality, and coherence.
• Shape what the team needs to learn and how it learns — establishing the research practices, insight architecture, and knowledge-sharing rhythms that ensure design decisions are grounded in evidence, not assumption.
• Elevate how the team operates — sharpening how we brief work, share insights, make decisions visible, and hold cross-team initiatives to outcomes.
• Partner with cross-functional leadership to shape strategy, orchestrate initiatives, and build alignment.
• Mentor designers and contribute to hiring — elevating craft, sharpening problem framing, and establishing the quality bar that lets us scale.

Requirements

• We care more about expertise and leadership than years of experience. Exceptional craft across UI, interaction design, and prototyping — you make technically complex surfaces feel considered, ground your direction in research insights, and use prototyping as a thinking tool.
• A track record of driving cross-functional initiatives that reshaped how design operates in a product organization.
• Deep experience building and scaling design systems, with a point of view on how AI changes the relationship between systems, components, and production code.
• Strong business acumen — you connect your work to measurable outcomes at every level.
• Experience designing for developers or technical users — APIs, SDKs, documentation, and console workflows, not just UI.
• People leadership potential — you may not manage today, but you influence through craft, operational thinking, and earned trust.

Qualifications

• Experience designing for real-time, latency-sensitive, or multimodal experiences — voice, streaming, conversational AI, or audio products.
• Comfort designing for probabilistic systems — confidence levels, fallback states, graceful degradation.
• Background in high-growth B2B companies with both self-serve and enterprise motions.
• Familiarity with AI observability, usage analytics, or API management surfaces.
• Experience leading design system migrations or establishing governance at scale.