Lead AI-Native Digital Product Designer

HP IQ; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible spending account

Generous time off policies

Employee assistance program

Life insurance

Parental leave (4–12 weeks)

Paid holidays

Flexible vacation

Job summary

A leading technology AI lab is seeking a Lead Designer to join their Intelligent Systems Design team. The candidate will focus on creating AI-powered experiences, and must have at least 5 years of digital product design experience. Responsibilities include designing innovative interfaces for AI technologies and collaborating with engineers. This role offers a competitive salary and a robust benefits package including health insurance and generous parental leave policies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of digital product design experience with a track record of shipping products.
• Experience in building with AI technologies, especially LLMs.
• Balance exploratory work with practical constraints.
• Ability to balance exploratory design with practical implementation constraints.

Responsibilities

• Design AI-powered interfaces that adapt to human behavior.
• Develop approaches for capturing and surfacing information naturally.
• Collaborate to bring experimental ideas to production.
• Validate concepts through hands-on prototyping with modern tools.
• Collaborate with designers and engineers to bring ideas to production.
• Define interaction patterns for AI system behavior and feedback loops.

Skills

Digital product design experience

Building with AI technologies

Systems thinking

Curiosity for new technologies

Empathetic tech

Curiosity for new tech

Education

Bachelor’s in design

Tools

Figma

Framer

Job description

HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates.

We’re assembling a diverse, world‑class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless.

We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human‑centric mindset.

By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work.

Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work.

About The Role

We're seeking a Lead Designer to join our Intelligent Systems Design team. If you are a Digital Product Designer ready to move beyond traditional interface paradigms, this role offers the opportunity to help shape foundational aspects of our AI‑powered experiences, with a particular focus on reimagining how computers remember, understand, and surface information. You'll alternate between deep exploratory work and shipping features that will fundamentally change how people interact with technology.

Working across Ai Pin, Cosmos, and the broader HP product line, you'll tackle challenges like designing AI‑powered memory systems and creating interfaces that understand and respond to people's needs. Success in this role requires both creative vision and the technical ability to build and validate ideas using real AI technology. You'll have the space to explore challenging problems while maintaining a clear focus on shipping products that work.

Our goal is to create technology that feels obvious once you experience it. We’re looking for designers who can envision a world where computing enhances our human capabilities rather than demanding our attention. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds who are excited to help reshape how humans and computers work together.

What You Might Do

• Design and build functional prototypes of AI‑powered interfaces that adapt to human behavior
• Develop new approaches for how computers capture and surface information naturally
• Create new paradigms for information architecture in AI‑first systems
• Validate concepts through hands‑on prototyping with modern tools and AI technologies
• Collaborate with designers and engineers to bring experimental ideas to production
• Define clear interaction patterns for AI system behavior and feedback loops
• Focus deeply on key areas like memory systems and generative interfaces

Essential Qualifications

• 5+ years of digital product design experience, with a proven track record of shipping products
• Experience building with AI technologies (particularly LLMs) in products or substantial side projects
• Ability to balance exploratory design work with practical implementation constraints
• Strong systems thinking skills and ability to design for emergent behaviors
• Enthusiasm for building intuitive, empathetic technology
• Curiosity for learning new technologies and finding unexpected solutions to complex problems

Preferred Skills

• A passion for tinkering and experimentation
• Background in information architecture or knowledge management systems
• Understanding of machine learning concepts and their practical applications in UIs
• Experience designing products that learn from people’s behavior
• Interest in cognitive science and how humans process/organize information

We request that you submit a presentation (Keynote, PDF or Figma) of 1‑2 examples of your work, along with any passion projects that represent you as a designer. We’d love to learn how you think about AI in the context of product design — from the experience of using an AI‑powered product to its look and feel, the craft behind it, and the trade‑offs you made to ship.

Compensation & Benefits (Full‑Time Employees)

The salary range for this role is listed above. Final salary offered is based upon multiple factors including individual job‑related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge and skills.

At HP IQ, we offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including
  • 4‑12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab, building the intelligence to empower humanity—reimagining how we work, create, and connect to shape the future of work.

• Innovative Work—Help shape the future of intelligent computing and workplace transformation.
• Autonomy and Agility—Work with the speed and focus of a startup, backed by HP’s scale.
• Meaningful Impact—Build AI‑powered solutions that help people and organisations thrive.
• Flexible Work Environment—Freedom and flexibility to do your best work.
• Forward‑Thinking Culture—We learn fast, stay future‑focused, and imagine what comes next—together.

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) Statement

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