# Founding Product Designer

**Company:** [Salient](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/salient)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $175k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Figma, AI Agents, Prototyping, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Design Systems, User Research, Analytics, quality assurance, human-in-the-loop systems, Enterprise Software, ai-assisted tools
**Posted:** 2026-08-03

> Founding product designer responsible for shaping AI agent experiences across configuration, monitoring, quality assurance, and operational workflows. The role requires 5+ years of product design experience, strong systems and interaction design skills, customer collaboration, and experience with complex enterprise or AI-powered products.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own product design from customer research and early concepts through launch and iteration.
- Design how customers configure, test, launch, monitor, and improve AI agents.
- Build workflows for conversation review, quality assurance, approvals, escalations, and human intervention.
- Improve how agents communicate across voice, text, chat, and email.
- Make agent performance, behavior, and outcomes clear to customers.
- Simplify complex, data-heavy servicing workflows.
- Work directly with customers to understand their needs and test new ideas.
- Partner closely with product and engineering to shape priorities and ship quickly.
- Build the design system and shared product patterns.
- Create a consistent experience across live agents and future products.
- Use Figma, rapid prototypes, and AI tools to test ideas quickly.
- Help define how the design function grows over time.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of product design experience.
- Experience designing AI-powered products, agents, copilots, or human-in-the-loop systems.
- Experience designing complex B2B, enterprise, operational, or technical products.
- A portfolio showing work personally owned from an ambiguous problem through launch.
- Strong interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and systems thinking.
- Experience designing monitoring, analytics, evaluation, or exception-management workflows.
- Experience working directly with customers and using feedback to shape the product.
- A track record of influencing product decisions rather than only executing requirements.
- Experience building or significantly improving a design system.
- Ability to design complete workflows, including permissions, edge cases, errors, and operational states.
- Understanding of how non-deterministic AI behavior affects trust, control, and product design.
- Experience partnering closely with engineers through implementation.
- Comfort using AI-assisted tools to prototype and explore ideas quickly.
- Strong communication and product judgment.
- Ability to work independently and create structure in a fast-moving environment.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range: $175,000–$230,000 per year.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Generous 401(k).
- Catered lunches.
- The team works in person in San Francisco, typically around 60 hours per week, beginning at 8:00 AM, with four days spent collaborating in the office.

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