Senior Product Designer for AI Simulations & Research Tech

Outset; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Outset is seeking an experienced product designer to join our small team and own meaningful parts of the product, including the Digital Twins / Simulations Lab—a new 0→1 effort that will scale with the core platform.

You'll work closely with our Head of Design, PMs, Sales, and Engineering to understand what we're building and how it's sold, ensuring the product remains clear and trustworthy for researchers. Strong craft and curiosity about complex systems matter.

Qualifications

• We don't have many explicit requirements, and exceptional candidates might bend these rules.
• 5+ years of product design industry experience, ideally including time as the lead or founding designer on a product or major product area.
• Experience taking a product from 0 to 1, or working in an early-stage environment where the direction changed often.
• Genuine curiosity about technically complex systems, and a track record of designing clear products on top of them.
• Comfort working directly with customers and treating their feedback as a primary input to design.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Strong but loosely held opinions on design and product.

Responsibilities

• Own product surfaces end to end. Take projects from early concepts through launch and iteration, including a central role in our Simulations work.
• Simplify technical complexity. Dig into how our simulations and other systems actually work, then design experiences that make the output legible and trustworthy to researchers.
• Stay close to customers. Sit in on customer conversations, read the feedback, and turn it into design decisions quickly.
• Hold a high bar for craft. Produce wireframes, interaction designs and high-fidelity visuals, and sweat the details in the shipped product.
• Know what not to build. Question features that add complexity without adding much value, and help the team cut scope down to what matters most.

Skills

Product design

User research

Prototyping

Communication

Tools

Figma

Codex

Claude Design

Job description

Outset is seeking an experienced product designer to join our small team and own meaningful parts of the product, including the Digital Twins / Simulations Lab—a new 0→1 effort that will scale with the core platform.

You'll work closely with our Head of Design, PMs, Sales, and Engineering to understand what we're building and how it's sold, ensuring the product remains clear and trustworthy for researchers. Strong craft and curiosity about complex systems matter.