Staff Product Designer

raydar; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa transfers may be considered

On-site in New York, NY

Job summary

raydar is seeking a Staff Product Designer for a founding design seat in New York, focusing on AI-native product experiences and agent-generated work across the customer journey.

You will shape the product with founders and leadership, define interaction models, and elevate the visual quality of both the interface and the agent outputs. This is a hands-on role requiring ownership and collaboration with engineers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design experience with a strong shipping record.
• Portfolio demonstrates exceptional visual craft and zero-to-one work.
• Experience in early-stage or breakout startup, ideally B2B SaaS or AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Own the core experience for requesting and publishing agent-generated work.
• Set the visual and creative quality bar for the interface and outputs.
• Partner with engineering to improve defaults, brand adherence, and feedback loops.
• Shape product strategy with founders and leadership, prototype and refine ideas quickly.
• Move from product architecture to detailed interaction and visual decisions.

Skills

Product design

Shipping products

Startup experience

AI tools

Tools

Figma

Job description

# Staff Product Designer* New York, United States* Full-timeApply for this role## About the companyOur client is a venture-backed AI software company rebuilding how go-to-market teams create customer-facing work. Its newly launched agent-first platform is growing at a double-digit weekly rate and is already used by major technology companies. With more than $71 million raised and a compact 20-person team, the company is at a rare point where strong traction meets a wide-open product and design language.## The role and why it mattersThis is a founding design seat with direct access to product leadership, founders, and engineering. You will define how an AI-native product feels, how users direct and trust an agent, and what excellent generated work looks like across the customer journey.## What you'll do* **Own the core experience for requesting**, shaping, reviewing, editing, and publishing agent-generated work.* Invent new interaction models for an AI product rather than inheriting a mature design system.* **Set the visual** and creative quality bar for both the interface and the agent's output.* **Partner closely with engineering to improve defaults**, constraints, evaluations, brand adherence, and feedback loops.* **Shape product strategy with founders and product leadership**, then prototype and refine ideas quickly.* Move fluidly from product architecture and systems thinking to detailed interaction and visual decisions.## What we're looking for* At least 5 years of product design experience with a strong record of shipping products people use.* A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional visual craft and novel zero-to-one work, not only assembled design-system screens.* Experience in an early-stage or breakout startup, ideally in B2B SaaS, productivity software, or applied AI.* Genuine enthusiasm for AI as a design medium and active use of modern AI tools in your work.* High ownership, sound judgment, urgency, and comfort working directly with founders and engineers.* Ability and willingness to work in the New York City office five days per week.## Bonus points* Experience as a founding or sole designer at a venture-backed startup.* A high-slope career path with rapid progression or recognition from a strong design fellowship.* Experience designing creative tools, agent workflows, or AI-generated outputs.## **Benefits*** $200K-$260K base salary.* Competitive equity.* Visa transfers may be considered for candidates who already hold valid U.S. work authorization. New visa sponsorship is not available.* Full-time, on-site work in New York, NY. The team works together in the Flatiron area five days per week.