Staff Product Designer

Gray Swan AI; United States; Hybrid; USD 205,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with matching

28 days annual leave

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Catered lunches (Pittsburgh office)

Flexible work arrangements

Visa sponsorship available

Job summary

Gray Swan AI is seeking a Staff Product Designer to lead the Arena UI across web and mobile. You’ll own concepts through production-ready specs, translating complex AI workflows into intuitive experiences while shaping how AI systems are tested and secured.

You’ll collaborate with product, engineering, ML research, and GTM teams, driving design systems and joyful user journeys for a high-ownership, early-stage startup in a fast-growing mission.

Qualifications

• 6+ years’ professional experience in product UI/UX design.
• Experience building tooling and/or chat interfaces is a plus.
• Able to balance technical users with playful design.
• Proficient in modern design and prototyping tools.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design and usability testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve Gray Swan’s Arena UI across web and mobile platforms.
• Own work from early concept to production-ready specs.
• Translate complex technical workflows into clear user experiences.
• Incorporate visual and persuasive design to create engaging flows.
• Build and maintain UI components and design system standards.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, ML research, and GTM teams.

Job description

About Gray Swan

Gray Swan is on a mission to empower the world to use AI safely and securely. We evaluate AI models for the leading frontier labs along with building real-time threat detection and adaptive adversarial red teaming agents for teams deploying AI.

We're a team of approximately 50 people, well-funded, growing quickly. Our work directly influences how the world deploys AI agents and systems at scale..

Learn more about how we work.

The Role

We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to join our small but mighty design team. You’ll work closely with the Arena Product team to build and grow the Gray Swan AI Arena. From collaborating with developers and marketing teams to translating complex technical workflows into clear, trustworthy, and refined product experiences, you’ll help shape how AI systems are tested, monitored, and secured.

This is a high ownership role. We care deeply about craft, but just as much about initiative. We’re looking for someone who can take a problem, run with it, collaborate cross functionally, and push the work to a high standard without waiting to be told what to do.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and improve Gray Swan’s Arena UI across web and mobile platforms

• Own your work from end-to-end, from early concept sketches to production-ready specs

• Translate complex technical workflows into clear, and intuitive user experiences.

• Incorporate visual design and persuasive design principles to create joyful and engaging flows.

• Build and maintain UI components, patterns, and visual standards in our design system

• Collaborate with product, engineering, ML research, and GTM teams on cross-functional work

• Contribute to ad hoc design needs as they arise: we all wear a few extra hats here!

Who You Are:

• 6+ years’ professional experience in product UI/UX design, ideally in gamified consumer apps, bonus points for experience building tooling and/or chat interfaces

• Able to balance the need of technical users with creating playful design

• Proficient in modern design and prototyping tools

• Solid grasp on user-centered design principles and usability testing methodologies

• Detail-oriented with a knack for managing style guides and component libraries

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Experience working at an early-stage startup

• Understanding of AI safety principles or ethical considerations in AI systems

• Some familiarity with front-end development or coding skills

If you don’t have 100% of these, you should still seriously consider applying. We care more about what you can do than your credentials.

You’ll Thrive Here If You:

• Enjoy high-impact work. Your role will directly shape the experience of our early customers and set the tone for future growth

• Embrace a collaborative, mission-focused team. You’ll work alongside passionate engineers, product leaders, and a supportive UX Lead

• Lead with purpose: As we scale, you'll help formalize our design processes and co-lead design initiatives

What We Offer:

We offer a competitive compensation package designed to reward impact and incentivize growth. Our compensation philosophy is informed by our current valuation and recent industry data.

Compensation: $205,000-$255,000 plus performance based bonus and meaningful equity package

Benefits:

• 401k with up to 4% matching

• 28 days annual leave (vacation + holidays)

• Health, dental, and vision coverage

• Catered lunches (Pittsburgh office)

• Flexible work arrangements

• Visa sponsorship available for exceptional candidates

Typical Interview Process

Application review. We read everything; we’ll respond within 10 days.

Online technical screen (15 min). Complete a simple, job-relevant exercise.

Intro call (30 min). We learn about you; you learn about us.

Technical interview (90 min). Live coding with some tasks requiring AIand others not.

Experience & culture interview (60 min). Conversational exploration of the skills fit.

Reference checks. We’ll reach out to 3-5 references that you provide.

Offer. If it’s mutual, we move fast.