Product Designer — AI Platform & Design Systems

Baseten; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

Baseten is seeking a Product Designer to shape the next generation of our platform for technical users. You'll join a small design team with a lot of ownership and a high bar for craft, working across the entire Baseten product to solve hard problems for technical users.

This role covers the full arc of the work: early exploration through production. You'll establish patterns that show up across the product, evolve our design system, and raise the quality bar as we scale.

Qualifications

• Portfolio shows strong visual and interaction design.
• Experience designing complex, technical, or developer-focused products.
• Able to take ambiguous problems, understand underlying customer need, and explore multiple approaches.
• Deep attention to typography, layout, hierarchy, interaction, and systems.
• Experience working directly with engineers and customers, without layers of process.

Responsibilities

• Lead product design end to end, including research, product definition, prototypes, design reviews, specs, and final implementation.
• Work directly with engineering and product to frame problems, explore solutions, and ship quickly.
• Collaborate with customers to understand their workflows, validate ideas, and test prototypes.
• Push the visual and interaction quality of the Baseten product across surfaces.
• Create interactions and details that make complex technical workflows feel clear, fast, and polished.
• Evolve our design system and establish patterns that scale across a growing product.
• Look across the product for opportunities to improve consistency, usability, and overall quality.
• Get into the code with engineers to polish UI and make sure the shipped experience matches the design.
• Help shape how the design team works and raise the bar for product quality across the company.

Skills

Visual design

Interaction design

Design systems

Technical product design

Tools

Git

VS Code

React

TypeScript

Job description

Baseten is seeking a Product Designer to shape the next generation of our platform for technical users. You'll join a small design team with a lot of ownership and a high bar for craft, working across the entire Baseten product to solve hard problems for technical users.

This role covers the full arc of the work: early exploration through production. You'll establish patterns that show up across the product, evolve our design system, and raise the quality bar as we scale.