Product Designer, Anthropic
Design Systems
$305-385k
+ Optional Equity Donation Matching
More information about location
2-5 days a week in office
AI safety and research company
Be an early applicant
AI safety and research company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$305-385k
+ Optional Equity Donation Matching
More information about location
2-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of product design experience, with some period building or maintaining a design system
- Strong portfolio showcasing user-centric design thinking, polished UI craftsmanship, and innovative interaction paradigms
- Proven track record of creating and maintaining design systems that enable teams to move faster
- Experience partnering with engineering teams and "speaking engineering" to ensure designs are implemented in code
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and influence without authority
- Passion for enabling teams, unblocking projects, and making high-quality design accessible to all
- Experience with prototyping, especially using front-end code (e.g. HTML/CSS/JS) preferred
- Understanding of accessibility standards and best practices
- Additionally we look for candidates who demonstrate an ability to:
- Ship opinionated products and make things customers want
- Model a builder mindset to explore and communicate through prototyping and design
- Be proactive and make things happen in a startup environment
- Have a technical understanding of LLMs and can build on top of them
- Design new, functional and easy to use interaction design conventions that are on the frontier
- Balance system consistency with speed of innovation
- Create inclusive and networked teams that welcome contributions from across the organization
What the job involves
- As a designer at Anthropic, you'll work alongside product managers, engineers, and AI researchers to shape experiences that transform Claude from a tool into a trusted collaborator
- We design products that solve real problems by combining deep understanding of user needs with our unique perspective on LLMs
- Design plays a critical role in building transformative AI systems that feel reliable, interpretable, and trustworthy
- Designers give shape to our vision for tremendous human progress through AI. We leverage unique skills like storytelling and prototyping to communicate ideas and their feasibility
- We execute on interaction and visual details with a high degree of polish, focusing on shipping, learning, and continuous improvement
- Design and maintain foundational UI components and patterns that ensure consistent, accessible experiences across our web, mobile, and desktop products
- Create and evolve AI Primitives—the key patterns native to AI products that set new standards for usability and delight
- Partner closely with engineers to ensure designs are reflected in code and are actively used by teams across the organization
- Contribute to design guidelines, documentation, and frameworks that help teams ship experiments faster and avoid reinventing the wheel
- Collaborate with product teams to understand their needs, support rapid prototyping, and help unlock frontier interfaces for novel UX challenges
- Balance immediate team needs with long-term system vision, knowing that "speed of innovation matters more than consistency"
- Rapidly prototype ideas using code and other methods to communicate concepts and build excitement
- Example projects:
- Design and implement core UI components like modals, navigation patterns, or interactive elements that raise the baseline quality of all our products
- Create design primitives for AI-specific interactions like tool use, steerability, agent behaviors, and other patterns native to AI products
- Partner with teams on signature interactions in the experience that showcase distinctive, differentiated experiences in the Claude interface
- Develop guidelines for content, color usage, or accessibility when coded solutions aren't feasible
- Support teams in rapidly prototyping new ideas while maintaining baseline quality standards
- Create systems that live in code, working closely with engineers to ensure components are implemented and used
- Build bridges and create a permeable membrane for contributions, enabling teams rather than gatekeeping their work
Our take
Funded by Google and founded by ex-OpenAI employees, Anthropic is an AI company focused on building a reliable, innovative AI system. While the company is relatively new to the market it has already launched a highly anticipated AI chat assistant called Claude which is set to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Similar to other chatbots, Claude is accessible through a chat interface and can provide a number of conversation and text-processing tasks. A key point of differentiation is that Claude is designed to produce less harmful outputs than that of the other chatbots that came before it.
While there is much praise for the chat assistant, there is still room for improvement with feedback reporting that Claude is worse at maths and grammar compared to its rival. However, with industry giants like Google backing this company from an early stage, it is clear Anthropic has the potential to become a leading player within the AI industry.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
190% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (4.3)
Trustpilot (1.7)
Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
Mar 2025
$3.5bn
SERIES E
Jan 2025
$1bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $16.3bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
- Generous subsidy for OneMedical
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching
- $500/month flexible wellness stipend
- Commuter coverage
- Annual education stipend
- A home office improvement stipend when you first join
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dario Amodei
(CEO & Co-Founder)Spent almost 5 years at OpenAI as a Team Lead for AI safety and as the Vice President of Research. Also worked as a Research Scientist at Google.
Jared Kaplan
(Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder)Has been a Professor at John Hopkins University for the past 10 years. Also an experienced researcher having worked previously at OpenAI and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Jack Clark
(Co-Founder)Experienced reporter having worked previously at the Register and Bloomberg. Also worked for OpenAI in Strategy and Communications and as a Policy Director.
Sam McCandlish
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. Previously worked as a Research Lead at OpenAI.
Tom Brown
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Member of the Technical Staff for both OpenAI and Google Brain.
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