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Effective AI brings that work into one source-backed operating view. Our agents help actuarial, product, and underwriting teams research, analyze, draft, and execute, while experts retain judgment, review, and accountability.\nWe are a 20-person team backed by Lightspeed and Valor, with a product in production and paying customers. Our mission is to help experts do more of the work people depend on.\nHere’s what our culture looks like: Life at Effective AI\nWhat You'll Do\nAs our Founding Product Designer, you will define how non-engineers work with AI agents across complex, high-stakes insurance workflows. This is not a screen-by-screen execution role. You will shape the systems, guardrails, and interaction patterns that make powerful AI clear, controllable, and trustworthy, moving from early product thinking through shipped details with customers, insurance experts, founders, and engineers.\nMore specifically, you will:\nTurn dense enterprise workflows and complex systems into simple, coherent product experiences by learning directly from customers and insurance experts.\n\nDesign agent experiences that make the system’s plan, progress, evidence, uncertainty, approvals, and recovery clear, and give users the right moments to steer or step in.\n\nPrototype and ship quickly with engineering, using Figma and modern AI building tools to move from rough ideas to polished, implemented interactions.\n\nCreate reusable interaction patterns and lightweight design-system foundations, including components engineers can use independently, so design quality scales without becoming a bottleneck.\n\nWho You Are\nWe’re looking for an ambitious product designer with exceptional taste, strong systems thinking, and the range to move quickly from ambiguity to a clear, well-crafted product.\nYou have 3+ years of relevant product design experience and are ready to operate with senior-level ownership. A Senior title is not required.\n\nYour portfolio shows excellent interaction and visual craft, clear personal contribution, and a track record of turning complex systems or multi-step workflows into simple experiences.\n\nYou have hands-on experience designing or building with AI agents and are comfortable using modern AI tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent. Shipped work is welcome; serious prototypes, side projects, research, or open-source work also count.\n\nYou move fast without lowering the craft bar, reason from first principles, and can distinguish a behavior or systems problem from a styling problem.\n\nYou collaborate closely with engineering and product, explain decisions clearly, and create patterns that help others make good design decisions without needing you to own every screen.\n\nHelpful, not required\nExperience designing for enterprise or business users, especially in regulated, analytical, or document-heavy domains.\n\nComfort with HTML/CSS and contributing to a shared component system such as Storybook.\n\nRole Details\nLocation: San Francisco, CA\n\nWork Model: Hybrid, 3 days in office\n\nCompensation: The estimated base salary range for this role is $160,000-$240,000, depending on experience and skill set. In addition to base salary, we offer competitive equity and benefits. 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