Product Designer @ AltaML

You'll be embedded on a product team with a PM and tech lead, not a design resource work gets thrown over the wall to. You're in the room from first discovery conversation through shipped product and every iteration after.

Ownership of usability risk is your job. The PM owns value and viability, the tech lead owns feasibility, you own whether users can actually use the product and whether they'll want to. On enterprise AI products, this is where most failures happen: users don't trust what they can't understand, and they quietly abandon what slows them down.

Discovery and prototypes are how you attack that risk. You'll sit in on client and end-user sessions, turn what you learn into prototypes fast, test them, and iterate. The bar isn't software that works, it's software people love to use.

Design happens within our shared design system, and you'll make it better: patterns that work go back into the system, and standards that fail real users get fixed so the same problem doesn't get rebuilt across ten other teams.

What We're Looking for

• Shipped software people actually use. A portfolio with real products behind it, and you can talk about what users did with them, not just how they looked.
• You prototype fast and think in iterations. Figma and AI-assisted design tools, working prototypes over static mocks, and you would rather test three rough versions this week than one polished version next month.
• You want to be in discovery. Talking to users is the part of the job you protect, not the part you delegate.
• You are good with engineers and good with users, and can move between the two without losing either.
• Accessibility is part of your craft. We build for government and public sector clients where accessible design is a requirement, not a nice to have.
• You create traction in a fast and sometimes messy environment. This is not a settled design org and it will not be for a while.

Why This Opportunity Matters:

• Work on new-age AI products, helping design the future of how AI gets deployed on our platform
• Use AI to improve customers' lives and make a real difference, building products that are not just usable but lovable, because lovable is what earns adoption and keeps it
• Get your prototypes in front of real users within weeks of joining
• Grow with real room to advance as the design practice grows around you

$80,000 - $110,000 a year

Responsible AI (RAI)

AltaML employees, contractors, and associates must be trained and well-versed in the importance of Responsible AI and empowered to enact RAI principles by developing and deploying AI solutions. They should also be empowered to raise and escalate RAI concerns as required.

AltaML is responsible for elevating public discourse and awareness of AI through open, transparent communications with the broader public.

We Look for A-Players Who:

- Express our core values

- Are hungry for knowledge

- Want to learn new skills

- Are respectful

- Collaborate with others across the whole company

- Share knowledge with coworkers

- Educate and promote AI and ML concepts both internally and externally

- Have a high work ethic and are self-motivated

Our Perks:

Uncapped Vacation - For all full time, permanent employees. Seriously, take the time you need - when you need it.

Make an Impact - Witness the impact your work contribution has on the success of our company.

Working with PhD and Master Level Colleagues - Endless conversations around the latest in Machine Learning and Applied AI.

🩺Competitive Benefits - For all full time, permanent employees.

🏢 Office as a Resource - Hybrid work environment with state-of-the-art office spaces that ignite collaboration.

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Our Culture:

You will be working in a high-paced environment focused on creating unique AI solutions to problems across multiple industries to generate impactful value. You will be working at a company with employees who have multiple years of industrial and academic experience in data science, software engineering, product development, and machine learning fields.

You will be able to experience a collaborative company culture, which means we believe in working hard, getting the job done, and enjoying the group social on Fridays. You'll also get flexibility in where you work, what hours you work, how much vacation you take, and what you wear. We expect hard work but respect work/life balance.