Product Designer

Samaya · San Francisco

Design

Role

At Samaya, our mission is to move users from information to conviction by delivering insights in a speedy, accurate, auditable, and verifiable manner. We are looking for a Product Designer to help build a product where investment insights become second nature.

This is a high-agency architectural role for a tech-savvy generalist, not a static mockup factory. You will treat the production codebase as one of your canvas, shipping production grade HTML, CSS, and JavaScript next to engineers. We operate on the other side of the AI shift, where tools like Cursor, v0, and Claude unblock designers to act as exponential force multipliers. You will design next-generation paradigms for complex human-AI collaboration, defining how analysts orchestrate multiple autonomous agents, and even rewriting prompt frameworks and system instructions to shape the AI personality.

By building our taste, opinions, and design decisions into the design system, we make it easier for everyone at Samaya to create high-quality work. That gives the design team more time to focus on product architecture, the long-term vision, and the decisions that have lasting impact instead of constantly responding to one-off feature requests or temporary fixes. We make deliberate tradeoffs that let the team move quickly while spending our time on structural improvements that continue to pay off. Over time, this helps the Sundial design language stay consistent and high quality across every touchpoint, from the product UI to presentations, documents, the website, and other brand assets.

Responsibilities

Shape the user experience, owning what analysts need and how information hierarchy, interaction design, and typography make dense financial data intuitive, fast, and trustworthy
Architect multi-agent interactions, designing workflows for human collaboration with AI agents and defining how users monitor, direct, and work with multiple agents at once
Own Samaya AI's persona, shaping how the AI research collaborator thinks, communicates, and behaves so analysts experience it as intuitive, professional, and high integrity
Ship production code, owning the UI and user experience end to end alongside engineers and product managers, with full accountability for what reaches analysts
Drive product direction, proposing new concepts, questioning foundational assumptions, and making short-term design decisions that compound toward a clear product vision
Own the customer loop, running weekly customer calls to hear friction firsthand and translating what you hear into shipped product changes
Scale the Sundial design language, maintaining cohesion across the product, developing agent-ready skills and a design.md architecture that engineers and AI agents build from, not just a component library

Experience

Required

4+ years of professional product design experience with a strong portfolio of shipped digital products
Hands-on experience writing production code directly in a codebase, with AI tools already central to your daily workflow
Deep craft across typography, grid systems, color theory, and visual hierarchy, applied consistently across every surface and screen size a product touches
A proven track record of taking vague, highly underspecified problems and independently carving them into concrete, shippable product features
Direct experience building, maintaining, or scaling a design system and documenting component libraries and skills for team-wide use
Experience running user interviews, synthesizing qualitative feedback, and translating customer pain points into shipped product changes that delivered measurable customer and business value

Preferred

Familiarity with prompt engineering, multi-agent canvases, or interfaces that dynamically adapt to probabilistic AI behaviors
Background designing for analytical or professional user bases such as financial analysts, researchers, lawyers, or clinicians, where precision and trust matter more than simplicity alone
A track record building complex dashboards, analytical software, developer tools, or enterprise data platforms
Experience documenting design patterns, rules, and components specifically optimized for AI agents to interpret and generate interfaces
A track record extending design thinking across every touchpoint a brand and product meets its audience, with the same rigor and craft applied throughout

Compensation

The cash compensation range for this role is $160,000 - $220,000.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Equity components may also be considered as part of the overall compensation package.

Benefits

Health: Access comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, flexible spending account (FSA), and short-term disability.

Wealth: Support for your long-term financial wellbeing with a 401(k) and pre-tax benefits (e.g. commuting).

Rest: Enjoy flexibility to rest and recharge as needed, with unlimited PTO (Paid Time Off).

Flexibility: Work flexibly with a hybrid setup — typically team members spend a minimum of three days in the office per week.

Travel: Grow and connect with a travel budget that encourages conference attendance, customer visits, and team gatherings.

Equipment: Create your ideal workspace with an office equipment allowance to set up what works best for you.

Inclusive Hiring

Interview Accommodations: We are committed to ensuring an equitable selection process for everyone and welcome applicants from varied backgrounds to enrich our team. If you require accommodations or adjustments during our recruitment process, please inform us.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

Visa Sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

About Samaya

Samaya AI builds Expert AI Agents for investment professionals, supporting high-stakes investment workflows across leading financial institutions. By combining finance-specific AI models with deep reasoning over institutional context and global markets, Samaya helps investors go from information to conviction. Samaya is deployed at enterprise scale across hedge funds, asset managers, and banks, including more than 12,000 professionals at one of the world's largest financial institutions. Built by a team from Google DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft, and Stanford with 100+ papers and 50k+ citations, it achieves 98% accuracy on financial reasoning tasks where generic LLMs reach 53%. Backed by leading AI investors including NVIDIA, Databricks Ventures, NEA, Eric Schmidt, and Yann LeCun, Samaya continues to advance the next generation of AI for investment professionals.

Our Operating Principles

Put Users first. Our users rely on us to do their jobs. We exist because our users trust us to help them achieve their goals. In return for this trust users place in us, we keep their needs as our top priority.

Win as a collective. We are high achievers with a drive to succeed. We build strong bonds over this shared drive. We dive in to help when one of us needs it. We’re kind to each other and boost each other to succeed and grow professionally and personally. We build trust with each other by making commitments and consistently delivering on them. This trust means we genuinely support each other, embracing feedback as a tool for growth and improvement. We win by operating this way, as one team.

Focus and iterate quickly. Bias for action makes us build and learn quickly. Iterating fast requires clarity on what outcomes we are targeting and why. Prioritizing the important things, taking full ownership and initiative, making fast initial progress, and rapid iterations lead to the best outcomes.

Innovate Relentlessly. We pursue novel insights, challenging the status quo and reimagining how things are done. We aren’t attached to the past when improving our product and how we work in the future. We actively invest time in innovation, thinking “outside the box” to consistently raise our standards.

Prioritize Outcomes over Egos. We are committed not to a person, an idea, or an opinion but to continuously making progress to our goals. Sometimes, our goals are ambiguous; in those moments, we iterate, learn, and move on to the next inquiry. We ask the tough questions with kindness, dropping our egos in our pursuit of evidence. For our business goals, we learn from our users. For our scientific goals, our understanding is built through rigorous experimentation, research, and observation. For our personal goals, we embrace candid feedback and collaborative learning to guide our progress.