Visual Product Designer (UI/UX), Samaya
$150-200k
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3+ days a week in office (Mountain View, C)
AI-powered knowledge discovery platform
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AI-powered knowledge discovery platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-200k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Mountain View, C)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a future where expert intelligence AI transforms global knowledge work — making it faster, deeper, and more impactful.
Role
Who you are
- 3-5 years experience in UI/UX design with a strong portfolio demonstrating shipped products
- Proficiency in Figma and modern design tooling
- Experience writing HTML, CSS, and basic JavaScript; uses Cursor or similar AI coding tools as part of your daily design workflow
- Strong problem-solving ability and high attention to detail
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Desirable
- Experience designing AI-driven or data-intensive products
- Experience designing for expert or professional users (researchers, analysts, clinicians, lawyers) where trust, precision, and workflow integration matter more than simplicity alone
- Proficient using cursor, v0, or similar tools to go from design idea to working prototype without engineering support
- Strong user research and usability testing experience
- Excited about helping define and scale design culture within a growing team
What the job involves
- As a Product Designer at Samaya, you will design and shape the end-to-end user experience of our AI-driven platform
- As we scale from tens of thousands of expert users who rely on Samaya daily, your work will be critical in ensuring our product is intuitive, elegant, and deeply aligned with how experts think and work
- At Samaya, designers are hands-on builders
- You will use AI-native tools (e.g. , Cursor) to prototype rapidly, write and edit production-ready HTML/CSS when needed, and collaborate directly in the codebase alongside engineers
- We do not operate in a static-spec handoff model - design and implementation are tightly integrated
- Workflow Delivery: You will craft thoughtful, high-quality interfaces for our web applications, translating complex AI capabilities into seamless and delightful user experiences. You’ll work at the intersection of AI, research workflows, and expert knowledge systems
- Design Systems & Foundations: You will help build and evolve our design system to ensure consistency, scalability, and speed as our product surface area grows
- In this role, you will define how experts interact with AI — and help build the design culture and standards that scale with our engineering and product teams
- Collaborate closely with founders, engineers, and product managers to define and refine product direction
- Conduct user research and usability testing, incorporating insights into rapid design iteration
- Design and own intuitive, elegant user interfaces across our product
- Prototype directly in code using Cursor or similar tools. shipping your own front-end explorations, not just Figma mocks
- Translate complex AI capabilities and product concepts into simple, user-friendly workflows
- Partner with ML engineers to translate model capabilities and constraints into design decisions
- Contribute to and maintain a scalable design system
- Ensure consistency and high quality across all user touchpoints
- Take ambiguous product problems and turn them into clear, thoughtful design solutions
Our take
Samaya supplies an AI-powered platform for search, summarisation and knowledge discovery, designed to enable faster and more informed decisions. The company leverages advancements in Large Language Models to answer more complex questions than alternate discovery options.
Built for domain experts, Samaya boasts the ability to uncover insights even from large and knowledge-intensive document sets. This empowers the product with a wealth of applications that appeals to many industries or businesses. For example, in the finance sector it can help automate investment research, client advisory and deal diligence.
The company has raised good funds to support accelerated product development and the broadening of its market reach. It also reports 100% month-on-month usage increases and an impressive client list includes the likes of Morgan Stanley.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2025
$43.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $43.5m
Company benefits
- Health: Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision and short-term disability
- Wealth: Support for your long-term financial wellbeing, with 401k (US) and enhanced pension (UK)
- Rest: The ability to rest and recharge as needed, with unlimited PTO
- Flexibility: A hybrid work environment (typically, team members spend a minimum of two days in the officer per week)
- Travel: Travel to other locations is encourage to foster team cohesion and maintain Samaya's unique culture
- Equipment: Equipment allowance to create your ideal work setup
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Maithra Raghu
(Founder & CEO)Former Research Scientist on Google Brain at Google. Earned a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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