Staff Product Designer

t0.ai; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan

20 paid vacation days

12 company holidays

Wellness benefits

20 paid vacation days

12 company holidays

Job summary

A financial technology startup in San Francisco seeks a Staff Product Designer - AI to develop an autonomous, user-centric software. The role involves defining product vision, collaborating with engineering, and iterating designs in high-paced settings. Candidates should have over 8 years of experience, exceptional visual design skills, and a background in AI-driven workflows. The position offers a competitive compensation package including health benefits and paid vacation days.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience as a product designer.
• Proven experience designing products from 0 to 1 in ambiguous environments.
• Strong end-to-end execution skills.
• Ability to independently own design work from early concepts to polished UI and developer handoff.
• Experience designing for complex systems, AI‑driven workflows, or automation.
• Strong collaboration skills with engineering, product, and cross‑functional partners.
• Deep customer empathy with experience validating designs through user feedback.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands‑on execution in tools like Figma and Lovable.
• Comfortable working in fast‑paced, startup‑style environments and making trade‑offs.
• Experience designing for desktop web, mobile web, and native applications.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product design vision from the first sketch to live product.
• Invent new interaction paradigms for AI agents and human supervision.
• Work closely with product and engineering to prototype and iterate.
• Balance broad strategic thinking with hands‑on execution in Figma, Lovable, and other vibe‑coding tools.
• Translate complex financial workflows into elegant, approachable experiences.
• Contribute to product strategy, roadmap, and customer validation.

Skills

Visual/UI design craft

Collaboration skills

Customer empathy

Strategic thinking

Ambiguity navigation

Customer empathy

Collaboration with eng

Startup environment

Tools

Figma

Lovable

Job description

T0 is your AI CFO from day zero. We automate the entire financial backend for founders—from bookkeeping and payroll to tax, forecasting, and investor reporting—so they can focus on building instead of managing financial busywork.

We’re not a research lab — we’re a launchpad. Our team is building an AI-powered finance engine and moving fast alongside real companies. Ideas go from whiteboard to production in weeks, not years, and engineers see the immediate impact of their work in the hands of customers.

Our mission is to rewire the broken infrastructure of global finance, and your work directly contributes to that transformation. At T0, you’ll solve real problems with immediate customer impact, operate with autonomy and ownership, and build foundational AI on top of infrastructure already supporting businesses at scale. If you want to move fast, tackle challenges that truly matter, and help redefine how financial operations work across the industry, this is where you build.

About the Team

The T0 AI team designs intelligent, autonomous systems that eliminate financial operations for companies globally. We automate everything from bookkeeping and reconciliation to tax, payroll, forecasting, and document understanding—turning hours of work into seconds. The team blends deep research pedigree with proven industry experience. We operate with high standards, are tool-agnostic, and expect engineers to own problems end-to-end. We collaborate closely, push boundaries responsibly, and ship exceptional work quickly. You’ll solve unprecedented technical challenges using unique, end-to-end financial datasets no one else in the industry has.

About the Role

As a Staff Product Designer - AI, you help design the next generation of financial software: AI-native, autonomous, and radically user‑centric. You’ll partner closely with engineering and product leadership to go from zero to one: from strategic concepts through to high‑fidelity execution.

This role is 60-40 UI to UX, and we want someone with exceptional visual/UI craft who has proven they can design thoughtful, usable workflows.

As our first designer for this newly created product, you’ll shape not just the product itself, but the design culture, principles, and direction of this journey.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product design vision — from the first sketch to live product
• Invent new interaction paradigms for a world where AI agents do the work, and humans supervise and steer
• Work hand‑in‑hand with product and engineering to rapidly explore, prototype, and iterate
• Balance broad strategic thinking with hands‑on execution in Figma, Lovable, and other vibe‑coding tools
• Translate complex financial workflows into elegant, approachable experiences
• Contribute to product strategy, roadmap, and customer validation

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience as a product designer
• Proven experience designing products from 0→1 in highly ambiguous environments
• Exceptional visual and UI design craft, with strong end‑to‑end execution skills
• Ability to independently own design work from early concepts to polished UI and developer handoff
• Experience designing for complex systems, AI‑driven workflows, or automation
• Strong collaboration skills with engineering, product, and cross‑functional partners
• Deep customer empathy with experience validating designs through user feedback
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands‑on execution in tools like Figma and Lovable
• Comfortable working in fast‑paced, startup‑style environments and making trade‑offs
• Experience designing for desktop web, mobile web, and native applications

Nice to Have

• Experience designing AI‑native, SaaS, or workflow automation products
• Background in fintech, finance operations, or tools for startups

Pay range and compensation package

T0 promotes fair compensation practices in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law. The actual compensation offered will depend on a variety of factors including experience, skills, qualifications, location, internal equity, and market conditions. Certain roles may also be eligible for additional forms of compensation, including annual bonuses, commissions, or RSUs. US-based employees receive medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) plan; short‑ and long‑term disability; life insurance; wellness benefits; 20 paid vacation days; and 12 company holidays.

Equal Opportunity Statement

t0.ai is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at t0.ai is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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