Staff Product Designer

Pholio; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A design-focused firm in San Francisco is seeking experienced Staff or Principal Product Designers to collaborate on building innovative products. Ideal candidates are passionate about crafting high-quality user experiences and have expertise in product design, prototyping, and AI platforms. This role emphasizes collaboration with engineering and product teams, ensuring proactive ownership in the design process. Candidates with experience in early-stage product building and AI-native products are highly encouraged to connect.

Qualifications

• Excited about building new products and experiences.
• Expert in transforming rough concepts into prototypes.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with engineering and product teams.

Skills

Product design

User experience design

Prototyping

Collaboration

AI platform utilization

High craft visual design

Job description

Pholio partners with early, mid, and late stage venture-backed startups looking to hire exceptional Product Design talent in San Fransisco and New York City.

If you're an experienced Staff or Principal product designer who brings the following, we'd love to proactively be in touch for when the right opportunity arises.

• You get excited imagining and building net new products and experiences
• You care deeply about high craft user experiences
• You're an expert translator of rough concepts into high-fidelity prototypes
• You thrive in a culture of rapid prototyping, user testing, iterating, repeating, shipping
• You leverage sophisticated product thinking to shape product direction
• You build and evolve design systems that scale across product suites
• You work across multiple AI platforms and tools to move faster and push ideas further
• You cut confidently through ambiguity to move the work and the team forward iteratively
• You communicate and co-create cross-functionally with engineering and product teams
• You bring a high degree of ownership, proactivity, and self-direction to your work

Though not always required, we'd really love to chat with you if you bring the following.

• Experience building and shipping 0 - 1 at early or mid stage
• Experience building AI-native products
• Experience building across both mobile and web platforms
• Experience building both consumer and enterprise products
• High craft visual design along with UX, interaction, and systems design skills

If we see a strong fit between your profile and the roles we often hire for, we'll reach out to learn more about your work and your aspirations for what's next. Thanks for the interest in building a relationship with Pholio!