Senior Staff Product Designer - AI

1Password; Remote; CAD 175,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity company in Canada is seeking a Senior Staff Product Designer – AI to drive the vision, strategy, and design excellence for AI integration. This role requires extensive product design experience, particularly in AI-driven projects. The ideal candidate will work cross-functionally with product, research, and engineering teams to shape how AI is implemented across the organization, ensuring ethical and responsible use while enhancing user experience.

Benefits

Generous PTO policy

Health and dental benefits

Retirement matching program

RSU program for most employees

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product design experience with expertise in end-to-end product strategy.
• Proven success designing and shipping AI-powered experiences.
• Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels.

Responsibilities

• Drive the vision, strategy, and design excellence for AI integration.
• Influence AI strategy across the company and partner with executive leaders.
• Shape design strategy ensuring responsible AI use.

Skills

Product design experience

AI-powered experiences

Systems thinking

Ethical AI commitment

Storytelling skills

Mentoring skills

Job description

1Password is growing faster than ever. We’ve surpassed $400M in ARR and we’re continuing to accelerate, earning a spot on the Forbes Cloud 100 for four years in a row and teaming up with iconic partners like Oracle, Red Bull Racing, and the Utah Mammoth.

About 1Password

At 1Password, we’re building the foundation for a safe, productive digital future. Our mission is to unleash employee productivity without compromising security by ensuring every identity is authentic, every application sign‑in is secure, and every device is trusted. We innovated the market‑leading enterprise password manager and pioneered Extended Access Management, a new cybersecurity category built for the way people and AI agents work today. As one of the most loved brands in cybersecurity, we take a human‑centric approach in everything from product strategy to user experience. Over 180,000 businesses, from Fortune 100 leaders to the world’s most innovative AI companies, trust 1Password to help their teams securely adopt the SaaS and AI tools they need to do their best work.

If you’re excited about the opportunity to contribute to the digital safety of millions, to work alongside a team of curious, driven individuals, and to solve hard problems in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment, then we want to hear from you. Come join us and help shape a safer, simpler digital future.

As a Senior Staff Product Designer – AI, you will be a cross‑organizational design leader driving the vision, strategy, and design excellence behind how 1Password harnesses artificial intelligence responsibly and securely. You’ll operate at the intersection of product, platform, and organizational design — defining cohesive AI experience strategies that span multiple product areas and influence the company’s approach to trustworthy, privacy‑aware AI.

You’ll partner closely with senior product, research, data, and engineering leadership to shape how AI is integrated across 1Password’s ecosystem. Your work will inform not only how our customers interact with intelligent systems, but also how we design for emerging forms of identity, trust, and automation.

This role blends visionary systems thinking with a hands‑on design practice—inspiring, guiding, and empowering teams to deliver cohesive, humane, and secure AI experiences at scale.

This is a remote opportunity within Canada and the US.

What we’re looking for:

• 10+ years of product design experience, with deep expertise in end‑to‑end product strategy, systems thinking, and leading multi‑track design initiatives.
• Proven success designing and shipping AI‑powered experiences (e.g., generative AI, predictive UX, LLM‑powered assistants, ML‑driven automation, etc.).
• Strong understanding of intelligent system behavior — ability to design for non‑deterministic outcomes, explainability, and human‑AI collaboration.
• Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels, translating company vision into actionable design roadmaps.
• Deep commitment to ethical and inclusive AI, ensuring privacy, transparency, and accessibility in every aspect of the user experience.
• Exceptional storytelling and facilitation skills; ability to drive alignment across senior stakeholders through clarity and empathy.
• A strong portfolio showcasing high‑impact design work, demonstrating thought leadership, conceptual rigor, and system‑level influence.
• Proven experience mentoring Staff and Senior Designers, nurturing design maturity and strategic impact across teams.
• Comfortable influencing executives and cross‑org partners through a mix of design evidence, research insights, and customer empathy.
• A growth mindset and desire to pioneer responsible AI design practices in a fast‑moving domain.

Nice to have skills:

• Experience shaping company‑wide design systems or AI interaction patterns across multiple products.
• Familiarity with AI model lifecycle design — from data curation to user feedback loops and explainability.
• Prior experience in security, developer tools, or enterprise SaaS environments.
• Published thought leadership on AI UX, ethics, or product design strategy (talks, writing, or open‑source work).

What you can expect:

• Define and lead the multi‑product UX vision for AI, aligning teams around cohesive principles that guide how we design intelligent, human‑centered, and privacy‑conscious experiences.
• Shape design strategy for both “AI for Security” and “Security for AI” — ensuring our products use AI responsibly while keeping customers in control of their data and decisions.
• Influence company‑wide AI strategy, partnering with executive and technical leaders to define frameworks that balance innovation, risk, and user trust.
• Connect and scale design work across multiple product areas, ensuring consistency and coherence in how AI features express our brand and values.
• Mentor and guide Staff and Senior Designers, strengthening systems‑level thinking, advanced prototyping, and ethical AI design practices across the EDR organization.
• Champion evidence‑based design, fostering close partnerships with Research and Data Science to derive actionable insights and shape our AI design language.
• Evolve AI design principles and toolkits for 1Password’s design system, enabling teams to responsibly integrate AI‑driven interactions with clarity and confidence.
• Represent the design org externally and internally, sharing thought leadership through presentations, writing, or public speaking on topics of AI, privacy, and human‑centered security.
• Drive culture change, helping the EDR team adopt new AI‑enhanced design workflows and encouraging experimentation while upholding design integrity.

Month 1

• Deeply understand 1Password’s AI vision, technical foundations, and design culture.
• Meet key partners in Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Research to map how AI initiatives connect across the company.
• Identify current and future opportunities for design influence within the AI workstream.
• Begin assessing the maturity of existing AI UX patterns and principles across products.

Month 3

• Lead early design explorations that test and refine the AI experience strategy across product surfaces.
• Establish and communicate AI design principles — balancing security, trust, and usability.
• Begin mentoring other designers involved in AI‑related workstreams, facilitating critiques and strategy sessions.
• Partner with product and research to validate assumptions through discovery and user testing.

Month 6 +

• Operate as the central design voice for AI strategy, influencing multiple roadmaps and shaping the long‑term product direction.
• Drive cross‑organizational alignment around AI design standards, patterns, and ethical guidelines.
• Regularly represent 1Password’s AI UX vision in company‑wide forums and external thought‑leadership opportunities.
• Mentor and guide designers and teams, helping them navigate complexity while maintaining craft quality and purpose.
• Continue evolving 1Password’s AI UX vision, ensuring it reflects our mission: to make every interaction secure, human, and empowering.

USA‑based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $204,000 USD and $276,000 USD, plus immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others), generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in incentive programs.

Canada‑based roles only: The annual base salary for this role is between $175,000 CAD and $237,000 CAD, plus immediate participation in 1Password’s generous benefits program (health, dental, RRSP and many others), generous paid time off, an equity grant and, where applicable, participation in incentive programs.

At 1Password, we approach each individual's compensation with a promise of fair market value and internal equity commensurate with experience and specific skill set.

Our culture
At 1Password, we prioritize collaboration, clear and transparent communication, receptiveness to feedback, and alignment with our core values: keep it simple, lead with honesty, and put people first.
We’ll challenge the status quo, experiment and iterate in search of the best solution. We’re looking for people who are keen to take on challenging problems, seek feedback to grow, and are driven to make an impact. We need proven experts and highly adaptable individuals who thrive in ambiguity.

We are committed to leveraging cutting‑edge technology—including AI—to achieve our mission. We also understand that thinking critically about AI in its current forms will help us create better solutions for our customers and ourselves with its future forms. Embracing the future of AI is essential for our success.

Our approach to remote work
We believe in the power of remote work, but recognize that in‑person connection is important to help us achieve our mission. While we are a remote‑first company, travel for in‑person engagement is a part of almost all roles, with expectations of annual offsites, team meetings, and industry events.

What we offer
Health and wellbeing:
• Maternity and parental leave top‑up programs
• Competitive health benefits
• Generous PTO policy

Growth and future:
• RSU program for most employees
• Retirement matching program
• Free 1Password account

Community:
• Paid volunteer days
• Peer‑to‑peer recognition through Bonusly
• Remote‑first work environment

*Some roles in our GTM team are currently being hired for in‑person hybrid work in Toronto and Austin. These roles will specify on the posting.

You belong here.

1Password is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace that is built on trust, support and respect. We welcome all individuals and do not discriminate on any basis including gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, or veteran status. Be yourself, find your people and share the things you love.

Accommodation is available upon request at any point during our recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please speak to your talent acquisition partner or email us at [e-mail] and we’ll work to meet your needs.

Remote work is a part of our DNA. Given that our company was founded remotely in 2005, we can safely say we’re experts at building remote culture. If you have questions or concerns, your talent partner would be happy to address them with you.

Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check that may consist of prior employment verification, reference checks, education confirmation, criminal background, publicly available social media, credit history, or other information, as permitted by local law.

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