Senior Product Designer - USA Remote (Pacific Time Zone Preferred)

About this position

Credo AI is a venture-backed company on a mission to empower organizations to deliver Responsible AI at scale.  Credo AI brings context-driven governance and risk assessment to ensure compliant, fair, and auditable development and use of AI. Our goal is to move RAI development from an “ethical” choice to an obvious one. We aim to do this both by making it easier for organizations to integrate RAI practices into their AI development and by collaborating with policymakers to set up appropriate ecosystem incentives. The ultimate goal is to reduce the risk of deploying AI systems, allowing companies to capture AI's benefits while mitigating the unintended consequences.

About the Role

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Product Designer to join our dynamic team. This role is tailored for a seasoned expert who has a rich history of working in design boutiques, agencies, and small to medium-sized startups. If you're passionate about simplifying complex workflows and systems through intuitive design and have a knack for both product design and product marketing, then you could be the perfect fit for our team.

Responsibilities

Bring your years of specialized experience into play as you:

1. Product Design Leader: Spearhead design projects, concentrating on complex workflows, dashboards, and visualizations, particularly for our AI governance and generative AI platforms.

2. Design Systems & UI Platforms: Develop, administer, and refine design systems in Figma and UI platforms based on Material Design. Ensure harmonization between our product and web experiences.

3. Interactive Prototyping: Craft advanced interactive prototypes using Figma and other related tools. Coding prototypes is a plus.

4. Website Design: Oversee and update our website, ensuring it aligns with the design system and brand language established for our products.

5. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with product marketing teams to produce compelling marketing materials, including website designs, slide decks, and landing pages.

6. User Research & UX Design: Develop user journeys, flows, and personas, and work alongside user research teams in various testing and research methodologies.
   

Qualifications

Your resume and portfolio should clearly demonstrate:

• Experience: 5-8 years in design roles at design boutiques, agencies, and small to medium startups.

• Advanced Figma Expertise: Demonstrable mastery in crafting and sustaining Figma-based design systems and interactive prototypes. Your portfolio should include examples featuring tokens, components, variants, variables, and libraries.

• Portfolio Requirement: A robust portfolio showcasing real-world experience in Product Design, design systems, and marketing assets such as websites and slide decks.

• Iconography & Illustrations: Include examples of system icons and vector illustrations intended for both product use and marketing.

• Technical Skills & Tools: Proficiency in Figma, Material Design, Figjam, Miro, Whimsical, and Webflow or comparable tools and systems.

• Cross-Functional Skills: A proven track record of collaboration between Product Design, Engineering, Product Management, and Marketing teams in a fast-paced startup environment.

• Visualization Design: Practical experience designing complex visualizations for libraries like eCharts or D3js.

Nice to have 

• Risk, Governance, & Compliance: Prior exposure to Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) in areas like AI, accessibility, security, and privacy, is very valuable.

• Design in Code: Capability to create prototypes in code, ideally with React Material-UI.

• Responsible AI: A keen interest and understanding of responsible AI and AI governance.

• Open Source Contributions: Evidence of your engagement and contributions in open-source or community platforms is highly desirable.

• Generative AI Experience: Prior experience in generating content through AI and a strong ethical perspective on its usage.

The Promise: Beyond a Job, A Journey

Joining us means stepping into a world of unprecedented growth:

• Be at the heart of the AI governance revolution, working and learning the most advanced AI products and tools every day.

• Collaborate closely with the crème de la crème of the AI industry, absorbing wisdom, forging invaluable connections, and accelerating your professional growth.

• Thrive in an environment that encourages innovation, nurtures talent, and values your unique contributions.

• Begin your journey at the intersection of innovation, creativity, and AI governance. Take the leap into a future defined by growth, learning, and groundbreaking work. Apply today and help us reshape the world of AI governance, one design at a time!

Compensation

The expected base salary range for this position is $170,000 - $190,000.  Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position in the specified location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Location & Remote Culture

We are a fully distributed company and are comfortable hiring in any location (location-specific legal requirements permitting). While this is a remote role and we're a fully distributed team, we routinely meet up in-person. We support individual members to coordinate in-person coworking whenever possible, and organize company-wide offsites multiple times a year.At Credo AI we value diversity, equity, and inclusion as core principles in our work environment, and the development of our product offerings, and we have implemented initiatives to foster and support these values.

Credo AI Benefits & Perks

• Competitive Salary and Equity

• Health: We offer health, dental, and vision coverage. We also offer an ergonomic benefit to cover the costs of equipment to help staff stay healthy while working, both in the office and at home.

• Coworking: We will cover the cost of co-working spaces like WeWork and in-person meetups.

• Unlimited PTO: Credo AI has unlimited time off to support our employees 

• Generous Parental Leave: We offer up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, and/or will meet in-country requirements that exceed that.

• 401(k) plan for  employees.

Credo AI is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, or other legally protected statuses. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment in all aspects of employment, including recruiting, hiring, promoting, training, compensation, benefits, and all other privileges and conditions of employment. All employment decisions at Credo AI are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.

Research has shown that some potential candidates will only submit an application when they feel that they have met close to all of the qualifications for a role. We encourage you to have confidence in your abilities and submit your application as long as you are passionate about working to make a meaningful impact in the ecosystem of responsible and safe AI. We are very interested in hearing from a pool of candidates with diverse perspectives.