Senior Product Designer

SandboxAQ; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Generous parental leave

Flexible hybrid work arrangements

Job summary

SandboxAQ is seeking a Senior Product Designer to join the central Design team. You will shape how people build, evaluate, and trust AI agents across open-source and enterprise products, balancing power, privacy, control, and speed.

You will design for varied audiences—from command-line developers to security leads—creating coherent experiences across CLI, web, and documentation while advancing a scalable design system.

Qualifications

• Experience designing for complex technical domains and multi-audience products.
• Strong understanding of AI-driven products, agentic interfaces, and developer tools.
• Ability to turn ambiguous problems into concrete design opportunities and hypotheses.

Responsibilities

• Drive product vision and direction with Product and Engineering to define what should be built and how it should work, framing problems into opportunities.
• Design and prototype in code to accelerate decisions and align the team with engineers early on.
• Own visual and interaction design across surfaces (CLI, web, console, onboarding, documentation) and evolve a design system.
• Ground decisions in evidence: conduct user research, usability testing, and analyze product analytics.
• Collaborate across the org-wide design function and coordinate with other Business Units; travel occasionally.

Skills

AI product design

UI design

Figma

Prototype in code

User research

Tools

Figma

Job description

At SandboxAQ, we are committed to competitive, equitable, and transparent compensation; we continuously benchmark our salaries and total compensation to premium markets to ensure our competitiveness. Individual pay within the above range is determined by job-related skills, experience, education, and geographic location.

With a focus on pay equity and ensuring opportunity for future salary progression, our typical practice is to hire within the first half of the base salary range for a given role and level. This approach allows us to reward performance and increasing expertise consistently as your career develops with us.

We use geographic pay tiers to reflect the pay differences in local markets:
For the US:

Tier 1: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of New York, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Wash D.C., Boston

Tier 2: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of Portland, Boulder, Austin, Denver, Chicago, San Diego, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia, LA

Tier 3: Everywhere else in the US

For the UK:

Tier 1: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of London, Cambridge, Oxford

Tier 2: Everywhere else in the UK

For Canada:

Tier 1: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of Toronto & Vancouver

Tier 2: Everywher else in Canada

About SandboxAQ

SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world’s greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors.

We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders.

At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world’s epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact.

The Opportunity

The SandboxAQ Design team is one unified organization spanning brand, creative, and product, with designers embedded day-to-day in the Business Units they support. This role will initially be working on our AI agentic platform and products.

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our central Design team, reporting to the VP of Design. You will define how people build, evaluate, and trust AI agents in an emerging category, making complex technical concepts understandable across both open-source developer products and enterprise control systems. What makes this work genuinely hard: the category is entirely new yet fast-evolving and crowded, and the audiences are deeply varied.

In this role, you will:

Design for deeply varied audiences, from command-line-first developers to enterprise security leaders, constantly balancing power, privacy, control, and speed.

Create coherent experiences across the product’s surfaces: command line, web and console, collaboration spaces, onboarding, and documentation.

Establish the reusable patterns, design principles, and systems thinking the product family grows into.

Key Responsibilities

Drive product vision and direction. Partner with Product and Engineering to define what should be built and how it should work, frame ambiguous problems into clear opportunities, hypotheses, and design directions, break long and complex projects into executable units of work, and identify risks and opportunities to solve collectively.

Design and prototype in code to accelerate product decisions, customer conversations, and team alignment, collaborating with engineers early so technical constraints shape the design.

Own visual and interaction design across every surface — command line, web and console, collaboration spaces, onboarding, and documentation — developing and evolving a style guide and design system, and contributing reusable patterns and design principles as the product family grows.

Ground decisions in evidence. Conduct workshops, qualitative interviews, usability testing, and other research methods, analyze product analytics to improve user interactions, and distil complex, dense information into clarifying data visualizations and views for the various lenses of user archetypes.

Operate as part of the org-wide design function. Maintain dotted-line, cross-departmental collaboration with design functions in other SandboxAQ Business Units, interface with go-to-market partners on interfaces that support Sandbox’s strategic partnership efforts, and travel occasionally to work with teams and customers in person.

~6+ years building interfaces for complex technical domains — developer tools, enterprise, security, infrastructure, or AI — with exceptional visual and interaction design craft.

Strong working knowledge of AI and agentic products and systems, and the ability to make complex technical workflows clear without making them simplistic.

Fluency with Figma and beyond: using AI tools to augment design efficiency from research to content generation to prototyping in code, plus comfort working directly with engineers and reasoning about technical constraints.

Hands-on experience conducting user research (usability studies, contextual inquiry, surveys) paired with strong product sense connecting user needs to business and technical outcomes.

Proven success with early-stage products and companies in fast-paced, highly ambiguous, high-autonomy environments: iterative, proactive, outcome-driven, and a strong verbal communicator able to articulate design concepts to multi-disciplinary stakeholders.

Highly Desired Skills & Experience

Familiarity with emerging machine learning workflows or agentic frameworks.

Familiarity with cloud-based platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

Why Join Us?

We offer competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for professional growth.

Compensation: Competitive base salary commensurate with experience, plus equity and performance-based incentives.

Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with company match; generous parental leave.

Work-Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work arrangements, generous PTO, and a culture that respects focus time and recovery.

Career Development: Direct exposure to CHIPS Act-funded programs, senior scientific and executive leadership, mentorship, and dedicated learning budgets to support continued growth.

SandboxAQ Welcomes All

We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging and respect, where diverse perspectives are actively sought and valued. Our multidisciplinary environment provides ample opportunity for continuous growth - working alongside humble, empowered, and ambitious colleagues ready to tackle epic challenges.

Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.

Accommodations: We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures for open roles. If you need such an accommodation, please let a member of our Recruiting team know.

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