Staff Product Designer — AI Platform & Design Systems

Dialpad, Inc.; California; On-site; USD 174,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Dialpad, Inc. in California seeks a Staff Product Designer to lead AI-first platform initiatives and shape how AI appears in our products.

You will partner with design, product, and engineering to define patterns, primitives, and interaction models, and you will ship production-ready code and real-data prototypes to scale across the platform. The role demands deep AI fluency, the ability to build internal tooling and tooling for designers, and mentoring across teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years shipping high-quality product design work, with impact on platform-level surfaces.
• AI as a design medium, not a feature.
• Built internal AI tooling to accelerate design and shipping.
• Shipped production code and used coded prototypes for validation.

Responsibilities

• Lead design on foundational layers and platform-wide initiatives.
• Partner with design, product, and engineering leadership to set direction for platform work.
• Define patterns and interaction models that scale across teams.
• Ship production code alongside engineering and build real-data prototypes.
• Design AI-first capabilities with trust, transparency, and user control at the core.
• Mentor designers across the team and raise the bar on craft and AI fluency.

Skills

AI fluency

Design systems

Prototyping

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

CLI workflows

Prototyping with code

Job description

Dialpad, Inc. in California seeks a Staff Product Designer to lead AI-first platform initiatives and shape how AI appears in our products.

You will partner with design, product, and engineering to define patterns, primitives, and interaction models, and you will ship production-ready code and real-data prototypes to scale across the platform. The role demands deep AI fluency, the ability to build internal tooling and tooling for designers, and mentoring across teams.