Senior Product Designer

SandboxAQ; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental, vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Generous parental leave

Job summary

sandboxaq is seeking a Senior Product Designer embedded in a central design organization to shape how technical users build, evaluate, and trust AI agents across command-line, web, console, onboarding, and docs surfaces. You will own visual and interaction design across surfaces, evolve a design system, and prototype with engineers to validate decisions.

You will lead user research, workshops, and analyses to turn dense information into meaningful visuals for diverse user archetypes, with

Qualifications

• Around six or more years designing interfaces for complex technical domains such as developer tools, enterprise software, security, infrastructure, or AI, with strong visual and interaction craft.
• Working knowledge of AI and agentic products and the ability to make intricate technical workflows understandable without oversimplifying.
• Fluency with Figma and modern AI design tools, plus comfort prototyping in code and reasoning with engineers about technical constraints.
• Hands-on user research experience, including usability studies, contextual inquiry, and surveys, paired with product sense that ties user needs to business and technical outcomes.
• Track record of designing for early-stage products in fast, ambiguous, high-autonomy environments, with strong communication and stakeholder skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product and engineering to set product direction, frame ambiguous problems into clear opportunities and design hypotheses, and break complex efforts into executable units of work.
• Prototype in code alongside engineers so technical constraints inform design choices and accelerate decisions.
• Own visual and interaction design across every surface, evolving a style guide and design system and contributing reusable patterns for the broader product family.
• Run user research, workshops, usability studies, and product analytics analyses, turning dense information into clarifying visualizations for varied user archetypes.
• Collaborate across business units and go-to-market teams, with occasional travel for in-person work.

Skills

AI design

Figma

User research

Visual design

Cross-functional work

Communication

Tools

Code prototyping

Design systems

Job description

Role overview

Contribute to an emerging AI agentic platform as a Senior Product Designer embedded in a central design organization. The role shapes how technical users build, evaluate, and trust AI agents across command-line, web, console, onboarding, and documentation surfaces, in a category that is brand new and fast-moving.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product and engineering to set product direction, frame ambiguous problems into clear opportunities and design hypotheses, and break complex efforts into executable units of work.
• Prototype in code alongside engineers so technical constraints inform design choices and accelerate decisions.
• Own visual and interaction design across every surface, evolving a style guide and design system and contributing reusable patterns for the broader product family.
• Run user research, workshops, usability studies, and product analytics analyses, turning dense information into clarifying visualizations for varied user archetypes.
• Collaborate across business units and go-to-market teams, with occasional travel for in-person work.

Requirements

• Around six or more years designing interfaces for complex technical domains such as developer tools, enterprise software, security, infrastructure, or AI, with strong visual and interaction craft.
• Working knowledge of AI and agentic products and the ability to make intricate technical workflows understandable without oversimplifying.
• Fluency with Figma and modern AI design tools, plus comfort prototyping in code and reasoning with engineers about technical constraints.
• Hands‑on user research experience, including usability studies, contextual inquiry, and surveys, paired with product sense that ties user needs to business and technical outcomes.
• Track record of designing for early‑stage products in fast, ambiguous, high‑autonomy environments, with strong communication and stakeholder skills.

Nice to have

• Experience designing developer tools, command-line experiences, or open-source products.
• Familiarity with emerging machine learning workflows or agentic frameworks.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

Benefits and work setup

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience, plus equity and performance-based incentives.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) with company match, and generous parental leave.
• Flexible hybrid work arrangements, generous PTO, and a culture that respects focus time and recovery.
• Mentorship from senior scientific and executive leadership, exposure to major funded programs, and dedicated learning budgets for ongoing development.