Product Designer, Safeguards

United States Digital Space LLC; Washington; On-site; USD 305,000 - 385,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in San Francisco

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an experienced product designer to shape how users interact with cutting-edge AI systems. You'll work across product, engineering, and research to design end-to-end experiences that feel native to AI while shipping quickly.

You’ll prototype with front-end code and tooling, contribute to architecture decisions, and craft interfaces that build trust in our technology. The role emphasizes collaboration and practical craftsmanship in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and shipping complex workflows, enterprise/B2B SaaS, developer tools, or API products end-to-end.
• Proven track record of executing end-to-end on large and complex products in ambiguous environments.
• A portfolio demonstrating user-centered design thinking and polished UI craftsmanship.
• Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools, such as Figma.
• Experience using AI tools such as Claude Code as a creative partner in your own design practice.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, AI researchers and other stakeholders to define product vision, strategy and roadmaps, and ship features.
• Understand the technical architecture of our products and define primitives for new capabilities.
• Define feature areas with attention to detail and polish to improve quality and consistency of workflows.
• Craft beautiful, polished user interfaces that build trust and showcase AI technology.
• Work across code, design, prototypes and new communication methods to convey ideas.
• Ship high-quality work in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment.

Skills

Complex workflows design

End-to-end product delivery

UI craftsmanship

Figma proficiency

AI tools experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication with stakeholders

Frontend prototyping

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Figma

Claude Code

Job description

About the company

the company’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

Design at the company sits at the intersection of craft, research, and product intuition. We're a small team working on products that millions of people use daily—and on interactions that don't have established conventions yet.

Our work shapes how people experience AI: whether Claude feels like a tool or a collaborator, whether it earns trust or erodes it. We partner closely with engineers and researchers, often designing around capabilities that are emerging in real-time. That means staying close to the models, prototyping rapidly, and being comfortable with ambiguity.

We're looking for designers who ship fast and stay in motion—people who would rather get something in front of users this week than perfect it for a month. You're excited to question fundamental UI assumptions and invent patterns that feel native to AI, and you're already using tools like Claude Code to extend what you can build. You pay attention to where model capabilities are heading, not just what Claude can do today, and you find ways to keep caring about the pixels, the copy, and the edge cases while shipping quickly.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, AI researchers and other stakeholders to define product vision, strategy and roadmaps, and play an active role in shipping.

• Understand the technical architecture of our products and define primitives for new capabilities.

• Define feature areas with exceptional attention to detail and polish, identifying opportunities to improve quality and consistency of broader flows

• Craft beautiful, polished, and delightful user interfaces that build trust and showcase the power of our AI technology

• Comfortable in code, design, prototypes, and learning new ways to communicate ideas and concepts

• Find creative ways to ship high-quality work in a fast-paced, often ambiguous, resource-constrained startup environment

Minimum qualifications

• Experience designing and shipping complex workflows, enterprise/B2B SaaS, developer tools, or API products end-to-end

• Proven track record of executing end-to-end on large and complex products, or a series of products, in ambiguous environments

• A portfolio demonstrating user-centered design thinking and polished UI craftsmanship

• Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools, such as Figma

• Experience using AI tools such as Claude Code as a creative partner in your own design practice

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and influence without authority

Preferred qualifications

• Experience prototyping with front-end code (e.g., HTML/CSS/JS)

• Passion for crafting scaled, highly impactful, safe and beneficial artificial intelligence technologies to enable new possibilities

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$305,000—$385,000 USD

LogisticsMinimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At the company we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to the company, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

the company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.