Senior / Principal Product Designer, Pano AI
$148-215k
+ Stock options
Early wildfire detection & monitoring
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Early wildfire detection & monitoring
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$148-215k
+ Stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give firefighters advanced tools to safeguard lives, communities, and the environment.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of product or UX design experience, with a strong portfolio of end-to-end ownership in fast-paced environments
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Design, HCI, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Strong systems thinker with expertise in interaction, information, and visual design; proficient in Figma
- Comfortable operating at multiple altitudes—from detailed execution to strategic, long-term design decisions
- Confident presenting to executives and skilled at navigating cross-functional priorities across product, engineering, and legal
- Customer-obsessed and empathetic, focused on creating solutions that reduce friction, build trust, and deliver clear value
- Experience with alerting, notification, or adjacent SaaS products (PagerDuty, Sentry, Nest, Ring, etc.) is highly valuable but not required
- Motivated by mission-driven work, excited to design technology that saves lives and strengthens climate resilience
- Design Excellence – Strong foundation in design fundamentals with depth in areas like interaction, visual, motion, or prototyping; able to deliver work that is both effective and inspiring
- Product & Customer Focus – Ground decisions in user needs, research, and business context to ensure solutions create real value
- Communication – Clearly articulate design choices and use storytelling, visuals, and prototypes to influence and align cross-functional teams
- Leadership – Proactively drive initiatives forward, take ownership in ambiguous spaces, and elevate the standard of design across the team
What the job involves
- As a Senior / Principal Product Designer at Pano AI, you will own the design of one of our most critical product areas: the Alerts experience
- Alerts are the front line of how our customers derive value from Pano — they must be clear, actionable, and defensible in environments where seconds and accuracy matter.The Senior / Principal Product Designer will be the first dedicated design leader on the Alerts squad, responsible for shaping both strategy and execution
- You’ll partner with a highly engaged PM, a team of engineers, and cross-functional leaders to reduce alert fatigue, strengthen customer trust, and design systems that directly help communities detect and respond to wildfires faster.This role offers more than just design ownership
- As a Senior / Principal Product Designer, you’ll gain direct visibility with executives, including the CEO, and influence how Pano’s technology impacts the world
- Unlike many SaaS design roles, this position gives you end-to-end ownership of a high-stakes product area where your work will have a measurable impact on public safety, climate resilience, and the way critical infrastructure is protected
- Lead design strategy and execution for the Alerts squad, filling a critical gap as the team’s first dedicated designer
- Collaborate closely with PMs, engineers, legal, and executives to define and deliver end-to-end customer experiences
- Translate complex user needs into clear flows, information architecture, and notification logic systems that balance early detection with reducing false positives
- Conduct user research with dispatchers, fire agencies, and other stakeholders to inform design decisions and reduce “alert fatigue.”
- Design in Figma across interaction, information, and visual design; prototyping and coding skills are a plus
- Present and defend design decisions to executives, ensuring they are backed by research and aligned with business and legal considerations
- Shape and evolve the Alerts experience into a more relevant, defensible, and trustworthy system for customers
- Balance tactical delivery with strategic systems thinking, prioritizing the highest-impact opportunities for improvement
Our take
With wildfires becoming an increasing concern across the globe, Pano AI has leveraged innovations in AI and computer vision technology to create an early warning and response system for the destructive phenomenon.
Using high-definition, remote-controllable cameras, its hardware is placed within forests, where it can be human-operated or work passively in scanning mode. The video feed is then analyzed by AI, which alerts authorities if it picks up smoke or fire.
At present, Pano AI is monitoring millions of acres of land. It has enjoyed substantial funding for its technology, has a partnership with T Mobile to utilize its 5G network, and has already helped to mitigate environmental disasters by delivering alerts before the first 911 call.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2025
$44m
SERIES B
Jul 2023
$17m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $89m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sonia Kastner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Vice President of Supply Chain at PAX and a Global Supply Manager at Nest.
Arvind Satyam
(Co-Founder & CCO)Currently Growth Advisor at CoMotion and Young Global Leader at World Economic Forum and Board Member at NewCities. Previously Venture Partner at OzoneX Ventures.
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