Staff Product Designer — AI-First, End-to-End Impact

Coast; New York (NY); On-site; USD 205,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Company-sponsored 401(k)

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible paid time off

Paid parental leave

$400 accessories allowance

Education stipend

Financial wellness tools

Job summary

Coast, a NYC-based in-person company, is seeking a Staff Product Designer. You will partner with product managers, engineers, and other designers to define problems, validate solutions, and ship product experiences that influence customer behavior.

Design at Coast is AI-first and builder-led, starting in an LLM and moving to tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex before polishing in Figma. You will prototype, test with real customers, and stay involved through launch and iteration.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of experience as a product designer working on complex products.
• A portfolio that shows strong product thinking and design craft (interaction design, visual design, information architecture, ux writing, and user research).
• Ability to distill problems and feedback, then design clear, focused solutions.
• Courage to ask questions, experiment, and advocate for what you feel is right.
• Humility to accept feedback, adapt your thinking, and iterate toward the best solution.
• Active use of LLMs (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) in your design workflow.
• Comfort working in tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex even if you are not writing production code by hand.
• Ability to work with product managers to define success metrics and iterate based on results.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, and comfort collaborating directly with product managers and engineers.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end product ownership: Define problems, explore solutions, validate concepts, and ship improvements and new capabilities that move key business metrics.
• Customer research & validation: Talk with customers to uncover needs and validate assumptions, leverage LLMs to synthesize insights.
• Prototyping & development: Build functional prototypes using AI-powered tools and ship UI improvements to production with engineers.
• Design for simplicity: Encode complexity into intuitive experiences for easy actions and reliable outcomes.
• Continuous product quality improvement: Identify usability issues and design inconsistencies and ship improvements.
• Elevate design craft & quality: Share AI techniques and improve our design system for consistency and usability.
• Hiring: Assist with hiring and onboarding of new teammates.

Skills

Product thinking

UX design

Information architecture

UX writing

User research

Portfolio

LLM tools

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem distillation

Communication

Tools

Figma

Claude Code

Cursor

Codex

ChatGPT

Job description

Coast, a NYC-based in-person company, is seeking a Staff Product Designer. You will partner with product managers, engineers, and other designers to define problems, validate solutions, and ship product experiences that influence customer behavior.

Design at Coast is AI-first and builder-led, starting in an LLM and moving to tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex before polishing in Figma. You will prototype, test with real customers, and stay involved through launch and iteration.