Founding Product Designer, Essential AI

$191.3-225k

+ Equity

Figma

Canva

Miro

Notion

Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

5+ days a week in office

AI products for enterprise

Job no longer available

AI products for enterprise

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsBusiness IntelligenceSaaS

Job no longer available

$191.3-225k

+ Equity

Figma

Canva

Miro

Notion

Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

5+ days a week in office

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsBusiness IntelligenceSaaS

Company mission

To build an open platform to fuel and accelerate AI breakthroughs globally.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Have 5+ years of professional experience designing for web-based, prosumer SaaS applications (e.g. Notion, Figma, Miro, Canva) and tools. Are highly proficient in Figma
Have demonstrated deep interest and/or have prior exposure to design patterns for working with generative AI models
Have shipped 0→1 products and demonstrated ability to do rapid prototyping
Have built and maintained design systems/component libraries from scratch
Have a deep understanding of the end-to-end design process, from brainstorming to prototyping and visual design to post-launch research and iteration
Champion great design and UX patterns throughout our culture and product
Willingness to be scrappy and ship fast
(Bonus) You can write frontend code

What the job involves

As a founding member of our Product Design team, you will work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management, and research teams, to create user-centered designs
We are building full-stack AI products that are trained to unlock collaborative capabilities that far exceed what could be achieved today; you will play a key role in defining our product interface and pioneering new capabilities in how enterprise workflow decisions can be automated at scale
Lead the design of our product features and end-to-end user experience, ensuring the product is intuitive, visually appealing, and functionally sets the bar in the industry
Work closely with our design partners to understand how Essential’s product will integrate into their workflow
Imagine, design, iterate, and build beautiful UX patterns to rethink how companies and businesses will interact with data

Our take

Essential AI is on a mission to make frontier AI accessible to everyone. The team builds open models, easy-to-use tools, and reliable pipelines so anyone can experiment, iterate, and create faster. Founded by a team with experience at Google and other tech giants, the company combines deep know-how with a curiosity-driven approach to AI.

Even though it's still early days, Essential AI is making waves by sharing cutting-edge models and open science along the way. This approach doesn't just accelerate research but it invites collaboration and helps new talent jump in as well as turns complex AI breakthrough into real-world tools people can actually use.

With funding and a growing team too, Essential AI is now focused on building products that can really change how businesses work, making workflows smarter and productivity smoother. By partnering with builders and developers around the world, the company is shaping the future of AI in a way that's open, practical, and pretty exciting.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Dec 2023

$56.5m

SERIES A

Mar 2023

$8.3m

SEED

Total funding: $64.8m

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Ashish Vaswani

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously co-founder and Chief Scientist of Adept AI Labs and Staff Research Scientist at Google Brain.

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