Product Designer — AI Data Platform (Flexible Schedule)

ABAKA; Mountain View, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental, and vision benefits

PTO

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Abaka AI is building a new product and software engineering team in Silicon Valley. As a Product Designer, you’ll own the user experience across web and mobile, shaping how our products look, feel, and fit together from day one, with ownership from idea to shipped product.

You’ll design systems, work with engineers, and advocate for users, using first-principles thinking to turn ambiguity into elegant, testable interfaces.

Qualifications

• 1 - 4 years of experience in UI/UX design or a related role, with shipped work you can walk us through.
• A portfolio showing both web and mobile product design (responsive web and native iOS/Android patterns).
• Strong UX fundamentals: information architecture, interaction design, user flows, and usability.
• Strong visual craft: layout, typography, hierarchy, and attention to detail.
• Clear evidence of systems thinking: reusable components, patterns, or a design system you built or contributed to.
• Fluency in Figma and rapid prototyping.
• Ability to explain and defend design decisions to engineers and stakeholders in clear written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product design for web and mobile: discovery, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI.
• Frame problems before solving them. Talk to users, study how they work, and challenge requirements when there's a better answer.
• Build our design system from scratch: foundations (color, type, spacing, iconography, tokens) and a shared component library used across products.
• Design consistent experiences across our products and platforms, so each new product starts from the system rather than from a blank page.
• Partner closely with engineers to ship: prototype quickly, hand off clearly, and review what's built to keep quality high.
• Use research, usability testing, and product data to validate decisions and keep improving what's live.
• Help shape how the team works: design reviews, critique, and the processes a growing product team needs.

Skills

Portfolio

UX fundamentals

Visual craft

Figma

Prototyping

Tools

HTML/CSS

React

Job description

Abaka AI is building a new product and software engineering team in Silicon Valley. As a Product Designer, you’ll own the user experience across web and mobile, shaping how our products look, feel, and fit together from day one, with ownership from idea to shipped product.

You’ll design systems, work with engineers, and advocate for users, using first-principles thinking to turn ambiguity into elegant, testable interfaces.