Founding Product Designer, Hazel AI

Altruist; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and equity

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Inclusive work environment

Job summary

Altruist is seeking a Staff Product Designer to enhance their Admin AI platform. In this hybrid role, located in the heart of San Francisco, you will lead initiatives to design an intuitive user experience that connects notes, meetings, inbox, and tasks seamlessly.

Your responsibilities include collaborating with multifacted teams, owning the end-to-end experience, and developing functional prototypes. Applicants with 7+ years of product design experience, particularly in AI and knowledge work, are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in product design focusing on complex workflows.
• Strong ability in ambiguous problem spaces with rapid changes.
• Experience in designing or building AI-powered products.

Responsibilities

• Own the Admin AI experience across core surfaces.
• Design and refine experiences in feedback loops as capabilities expand.
• Pair with marketing and engineering on implementation.

Skills

Interaction design fundamentals

Prototyping in code

Collaboration with teams

Experience with AI products

Tools

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

React

Job description

• Hazel is Altruist’s AI platform for financial advisors that integrates across their tech stack and turns scattered data into actionable outcomes
• We’re hiring an experienced Staff Product Designer for Hazel’s Admin AI—the agent that sits alongside advisors and their teams to capture context, manage work, and take action across notes, meetings, inbox, and tasks
• This is an individual-contributor role reporting to the AI Product Design Manager
• You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Research and own Hazel’s end-to-end Admin AI experience
• This role is hybrid, with three in-office days per week at our San Francisco Financial District location
• Own the Admin AI experience across core surfaces like note-taking, meetings, inbox, and tasks
• Design how Hazel captures context, summarizes information, follows up, asks clarifying questions, and takes action on a user’s behalf—while staying predictable, transparent, and trustworthy
• Invent new interaction patterns for AI-assisted work where traditional UI doesn’t fit, blending automation, suggestions, and human control to reduce cognitive load without hiding important context
• Design patterns for how Hazel signals progress, uncertainty, permissions, and handoffs across multi-step and asynchronous workflows
• Shape how Hazel explains what it’s doing, why it’s doing it, and what it needs from the user in a way that feels intuitive and trustworthy
• Build functional prototypes using real front-end code—not just static mockups
• Work closely with engineers to refine interaction details and ship features into production, owning features from concept through launch
• Design, test, and refine experiences in tight feedback loops as Hazel’s capabilities expand with model improvements
• Work on critical-path features, adapting designs as the underlying agent becomes more capable and the product surface area grows
• When you see an issue with the UI or UX, you’ll have the autonomy to fix it yourself in code and ship
• Pair with product marketing, brand, and engineers on implementation, explore new model behaviors with research, and pressure-test ideas directly with users and design partners
• Contribute to and help evolve Ethos, our design system, ensuring pixel-perfect implementation and consistent interaction patterns across Hazel and the broader platform
• Obsess over the details that make admin tools feel calm, fast, and reliable: clear hierarchy, thoughtful defaults, crisp feedback loops, and minimal friction in day-to-day use

Benefits

• Grow your career: Altruist is a thoughtful, fast-growing company that values high achievers
• Our success is your success: Be rewarded for doing great work - competitive compensation and equity for all team members
• Take care of yourself: Health, dental, and vision coverage, available on your first day
• Work-life integration: We work hard and respect everyone’s whole selves
• You’re welcome here: Altruist is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to inclusivity

Qualifications

• Strong interaction design fundamentals and a track record of shipping real products—not just concepts or prototypes
• Comfort designing in ambiguous problem spaces with evolving constraints and rapidly changing AI capabilities
• High craft bar and strong taste in interaction, UX writing, and visual hierarchy, with the portfolio to back it up
• A systems-level mindset for how features connect across notes, meetings, inbox, and tasks, and how those pieces should feel cohesive in one admin agent experience
• Ability to prototype and build in code (e.g., HTML/CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript, React, or similar), and comfort working directly in front-end codebases
• Clear communication and strong, low-ego collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Research
• Familiarity with design systems and front-end component libraries, ideally in React or similar ecosystems
• Experience designing or building AI-powered or agentic products, especially those that automate or assist with complex knowledge work
• Background in productivity tools, admin workflows, or advisor/knowledge work software
• Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Altruist we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways
• 7+ years of experience in product design, with a focus on complex, multi-step workflows and end-to-end ownership from discovery through launch