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In 2026, we launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI. We’ve scaled beyond the millions of people using Perplexity every day for research, shopping, investing and curiosity into a new paradigm of using AI to transform knowledge into action. Product Managers at Perplexity work closely with design and engineering, focusing on the foundational AI capabilities that make our products more powerful, extensible, collaborative, and useful. The ideal candidate should have strong communication and writing skills, the ability to envision innovative technology, and a willingness to reimagine work to be more efficient and creative. Ideal candidates have a passion for turning frontier AI capabilities into coherent products: in the application, please highlight the AI systems, platforms, or workflows you are most interested in advancing. THE ROLE The AI Capabilities team owns the product structures that turn intelligence into repeatable, composable experiences. This includes Skills that teach Computer how to work, collaboration that helps people and agents build together, artifact generation that turns ideas into polished outputs, and P
Anthropicjob-boards.greenhouse.io · 26 August 2026
Experience designing and shipping complex workflows, enterprise/B2B SaaS, developer tools, or API products end-to-end Proven track record of executing end-to-end on large and complex products, or a series of products, in ambiguous environments A portfolio demonstrating user-centered design thinking and polished UI craftsmanship Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools, such as Figma Experience using AI tools such as Claude Code as a creative partner in your own design practice Experience prototyping with front-end code (e.g., HTML/CSS/JS) Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and influence without authority Passion for crafting scaled, highly impactful, safe and beneficial artificial intelligence technologies to enable new possibilities
Decagonjobs.ashbyhq.com · 26 August 2026
About Decagon Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences. Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Block’s Cash App and Square, Chime, Oura Health, and Hunter Douglas to deploy AI agents that power personalized, deeply satisfying interactions across voice, chat, email, SMS, and every other channel. We’re building a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships. We’re proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue, and Index Ventures, along with many others. We’re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values — Just Get It Done, Invent What Customers Want, Winner’s Mindset, and The Polymath Principle — shape how we work and grow as a team. About the Team Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform, empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences. Industry-defining enterprises like Cash App, Square, Chim
Pinterestpinterestcareers.com · 26 August 2026
Experience designing complex B2B, commerce, merchant, or advertising products; familiarity with catalog management or AI-powered tools is a plus. Strong product discovery and systems-thinking skills, with the ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into clear, scalable experiences. Experience designing AI or conversational experiences, including thoughtful approaches to trust, guidance, error recovery, and human control. Proven ability to partner across product, engineering, research, data, and platform teams to influence direction and ship high-quality work. Comfort with ambiguity, a bias for action, and strong communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts and design tradeoffs. Leverage AI tools for research, analysis, and prototyping to drive high-velocity product outcomes. Bachelor’s degree in design, a related field, or equivalent experience. 5+ years of product design experience or equivalent.
Vantajobs.ashbyhq.com · 25 August 2026
At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. The Third-Party Risk Management team drives product development excellence across Vanta's EPD organization. This area is responsible for building and improving the tools, practices, and systems that enable product squads to move faster and deliver higher-quality experiences. As Director of Design, you will lead a team of product designers, set the design strategy for the area, and ensure Vanta ships world-class user experiences across your squads. As a Director of Product Design at Vanta, you will define a net-new experience vision, strategy, and execution for a highly AI-centric workflow builder. You’ll partner cross functionally to align others around your vision and execution, championing your experience strategy to scale your customer impact. You’ll enable Vanta to serve our most complex enterprise use cases whil
Asanaasana.com · 6 August 2026
6+ years of product management experience, ideally focused on AI products, collaboration software, or enterprise workflows. Proven ability to craft intuitive, high-quality user experiences in close partnership with design and user research. Customer-facing track record with enterprise customers, with a demonstrated capability to translate customer insights into sharp product decisions. Deep familiarity with modern AI tools as a daily user, with informed opinions about human-agent collaboration and the judgment to build trustworthy, useful experiences. Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional partners and leadership. Experience building products for specific verticals, or a background in product-led growth or 0→1 products, is a plus. At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.
Affirmjob-boards.greenhouse.io · 13 July 2026
Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. About the team Product Design at Affirm drives business success by exceeding user expectations. We are a collaborative, agile team that continues to strive for greater solutions. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Analytics to translate complex user needs into simple, intuitive, and scalable product experiences. We rely on empathy, design craft, and systems thinking to champion the user in every decision, ensuring our products empower people to manage their money with confidence. About the role We are looking for an experienced Staff Product Designer to join us at a critical juncture as we evolve how our users interact with Affirm through agentic solutions. You will lead the effort to help establish when, where and how we utilize AI to consistently help the consumer in the moment, providing them with proactive experiences. You will partner closely with Product to define a roadmap for success. This role focuses on building a hybrid search and discovery in
Renderjobs.ashbyhq.com · 13 July 2026
At Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure. Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users. Our platform is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $260M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of moder
Twiliojob-boards.greenhouse.io · 12 June 2026
Twilio values diverse experiences from all kinds of industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table! *Required: Minimum of 8 years of experience in product management in SaaS, IaaS or PaaS Proven track record of leading successful product launches and driving product strategies Command of analytical thinking skills with the ability to use quantitative and qualitative data to make product decisions, get executive buy-in, and drive towards measurable outcomes Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate at all levels and present effectively to internal and external stakeholders Strong technical, analytical, and UI/UX design understanding and the ability to dive deep while also keeping perspective on the big picture goals Initiative, ownership, and accountability to decode vague priorities, manage conflicting inputs, and drive initiatives forward against ambiguous and complex challeng
Synthesiajobs.ashbyhq.com · 3 June 2026
Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. Location: Europe remote or London hybrid THE ROLE: We're looking for a Staff (L6) Product Designer to lead design for Synthesia's AI-native product surfaces: the experiences where employees learn through conversation, companies localise content at scale, and AI becomes a direct participant in how work gets done - not just a tool behind the scenes. This area is central to r
Ourajob-boards.greenhouse.io · 3 April 2026
5+ Years of Experience: A proven track record in Senior or Staff roles at the intersection of Product Design and emerging technology, specifically in AI/ML-driven environments.
GitLabjob-boards.greenhouse.io · 19 March 2026 · 2 jobs
A strong portfolio showing how you think and iterate, not just what shipped, ideally including AI/ML products, agentic workflows, or natural language interfaces where user control, transparency, and trust were key considerations. Experience designing for AI workflows. You understand the unique challenges of multi-step, agentic, or automated processes and how to design for them effectively. A high bar for craft. You care deeply about the details of interaction and visual design, and help others raise their standards too. Experience conducting research and translating findings into clear, well-reasoned design decisions. Proven ability to work iteratively in agile product development, balancing speed with quality and making smart tradeoffs without losing sight of the longer-term vision. Experience designing in complex enterprise contexts, with working knowledge of Git, HTML/CSS, accessibility best practices, and design systems. Excellent communication skills. You can simplify complexity, articulate design rationale clearly, and bring people along through your process.
Databricksdatabricks.com · 19 February 2026
5+ years of product design work experience. A bachelor's degree or equivalent, with specialization in HCI, Interaction Design, graphic design, computer science, or related disciplines. You’re comfortable talking to strategic customers in key decision-making positions. Experience shipping great digital products. We strongly believe that a designer’s involvement never stops. You should be comfortable overseeing and impacting the entire process from idea to GA. Demonstrated ability to lead large and complex design projects and balance the needs of diverse stakeholders. Can execute beautiful visual and interaction work that’s rooted in a data-driven and well-researched UX process. A system thinker who has the vision to design the big picture, and the tactical ability to break it down so that engineering can succeed in building it incrementally. You have a unique combination of technical knowledge and visual design skills, which allows you to design powerful and intuitive engineering tooling. A portfolio showcasing the end-to-end design process. Experience designing products in the Cloud, Developer Experience, AI, or Big Data space is a nice-to-have. Coding R
Gustojob-boards.greenhouse.io · 7 January 2026
8–10+ years of product design experience, with at least 3 years leading and managing design teams. Experience designing in complex domains i.e. financial products, healthcare, or similarly regulated environments. Experience setting UX direction across multiple teams and influencing product strategy — not just executing on it. Experience leading product initiatives where AI or automation is central to the user experience — including how to represent uncertainty, surface errors gracefully, and preserve user agency when automation gets it wrong, particularly in high-stakes contexts. Demonstrated ability to assess AI-generated design directions: knowing when to use them, when to override them, and how to raise the quality bar on AI outputs. Proven ability to drive alignment across cross-functional partners and represent design in high-stakes, strategic conversations. Deep systems thinking, with a track record of turning interconnected, complex workflows into experiences that feel simple and intuitive. Experience leading a team through an AI workflow transition — not just adopting AI personally, but changing how a team works, including establishing new no
Harveyjobs.ashbyhq.com · 12 September 2025
WHY HARVEY At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come. This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. We have strong product-market fit and world-class investor support. We’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched. Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you. At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — an
Linearjobs.ashbyhq.com · 10 July 2025
At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship. We’re looking for experienced engineers who have shipped applied AI systems to production and want to define what the agent-native future looks like. We are building intelligence into the core of Linear, enabling the product to orchestrate coding, proactively move work forward, and power-up every software team. You’ll work closely with product and design to transform foundation models into structured, reliable workflows embedded deeply in the core of Linear. We care deeply about keeping Linear fast, intuitive, and opinionated—AI is no exception. Location & work mode Linear is a remote-f
Oktaokta.com · 30 May 2025
- 10+ years of human-centered product design experience with a portfolio showing strategic ownership and strong craft. - A true self-starter — you've built experiences or practices from scratch, without a roadmap handed to you. - Comfortable designing for headless, low-UI, API-first surfaces. - Experience designing for AI agents or agentic systems is a huge plus — you've tackled invisible-UI, trust, or automation problems before, not just discussed them. - Track record owning onboarding/self-service experiences at scale, backed by PLG and conversion metrics fluency (Pendo, Heap, or similar). - Comfortable in ambiguity, technical conversations, and fast-moving, undefined team settings. - A multiplier — you elevate others and build alignment without formal authority. - Bonus: engineering/front-end background. Why Join Us - Help write the vision, not just implement it — a founding voice on AX and Growth - Shape two frontiers at once: invisible AX for agents, and growth for AI-powered developers. - Operate at staff scope, with real influence over strategy and craft. - We believe in augmentation, not replacement — and in design as problem-solvi