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Posted on 2025/12/31

Staff Product Designer: AI-Native Systems

Demand.io

Santa Monica, CA, United States

Full-time

Qualifications

  • The "Infrastructure" Experience (Mobile)
  • The Rupture: Moving from "Search App" to "OS Infrastructure."
  • This is not about designing a "feed"; it is about designing System Utility
  • The Physics You Will Own
  • You must understand the "Physics of Data"—how an entity relates to an attribute—to design the UI that displays it
  • The Leverage: We do not have "Design Managers." We have Design Operators
  • High IQ + High EQ: You are a "Blended Mind." You have the visual talent of an artist but the logical rigor of an engineer
  • You don't ask "What color is the button?"; you ask "Does this flow optimize for User Trust or Revenue?"—and you know the right answer
  • An Anti-Incrementalist: You are bored by "optimizing the checkout flow by 1%." You want to design 0-to-1 Systems
  • You have a portfolio of innovation, not just iteration

Benefits

  • Cash: $220,000 – $360,000 Base Salary
  • Equity: Significant Ownership
  • Profit Sharing (PSB): A cash bonus pool that aligns your wealth with the company's durability
  • Benefits: 100% Premium Coverage for you and your family
  • Daily catered lunches
  • Unlimited PTO

Responsibilities

  • Through every iteration, reinforce constant goal: creating undeniable clarity for the user
  • You are here to solve three specific Interaction Tensions
  • The "Probabilistic GUI" (Product.ai)
  • You will design the components that visually distinguish a "Verified Fact" (ShopGraph) from a "Generative Guess" (LLM)
  • You will solve the Black Box problem with Radical Explainability
  • The "Agent-Native" Transformation (SimplyCodes)
  • The Tension: The browser extension is a dying artifact
  • The Architecture: You will transform SimplyCodes from a "Passive Pop-up" into an "Active Data Companion." You will work with the founder to visualize the Fiduciary Advisor that lives in the browser—a high-density, low-friction interface that communicates value in milliseconds without annoying the user
  • You will map the user journey of a "Verified Pass" moving from the Cloud to the OS Wallet to the Physical Point-of-Sale
  • The Stack: You will design for ShopGraph (1B+ nodes) and ARC (Neuro-Symbolic Logic)
  • You will use our internal AI tools to generate assets and copy at scale, allowing you to focus on Architecture and Strategy
  • The Collision: You will sit next to the Founder and the Lead Engineers
  • It optimizes for "politeness" and "process," resulting in weeks of scheduling ping-pong just to speak with a non-technical screener

Full Description

The Executive Summary

Static design is dead.

The era of the "Page" is over.

The era of the "Generative Interface" has arrived.

We are Demand.io.

We are a profitable, founder-led unit of ~30 builders processing $1B+ in transaction volume.

We're moving past thinking in terms of "sites and apps." We're building Product.ai—an intelligence engine that adjudicates truth in commerce.

We require a Visual Architect to define the interface of this new era.

You are not here to push pixels or manage a component library.

You are here to architect the "Trust Layer" between human intent and autonomous agents.

The Bottom Line: Make SimplyCodes and Product.ai feel inevitable.

Forge products that dominate in today’s reality (high-conversion utility) while inventing the visual language for tomorrow’s reality (AI Agents).

Through every iteration, reinforce constant goal: creating undeniable clarity for the user.

The Mandate

You are not here to optimize a funnel.

You are here to solve three specific Interaction Tensions.

  1. The "Probabilistic GUI" (Product.ai)

The Tension: Standard UI is deterministic (Static Text).

AI is probabilistic (Confidence Scores).

The Architecture: You must invent the visual physics of "Calibrated Uncertainty." How does a user trust an AI with their wallet?

You will design the components that visually distinguish a "Verified Fact" (ShopGraph) from a "Generative Guess" (LLM).

You will solve the Black Box problem with Radical Explainability.

The "Agent-Native" Transformation (SimplyCodes)

The Tension: The browser extension is a dying artifact.

The Architecture: You will transform SimplyCodes from a "Passive Pop-up" into an "Active Data Companion." You will work with the founder to visualize the Fiduciary Advisor that lives in the browser—a high-density, low-friction interface that communicates value in milliseconds without annoying the user.

  1. The "Infrastructure" Experience (Mobile)

The Rupture: Moving from "Search App" to "OS Infrastructure."

The Architecture: You will design the 0-to-1 Digital Wallet experience.

This is not about designing a "feed"; it is about designing System Utility.

You will map the user journey of a "Verified Pass" moving from the Cloud to the OS Wallet to the Physical Point-of-Sale.

The Physics You Will Own

• The Stack: You will design for ShopGraph (1B+ nodes) and ARC (Neuro-Symbolic Logic).

You must understand the "Physics of Data"—how an entity relates to an attribute—to design the UI that displays it.

• The Leverage: We do not have "Design Managers." We have Design Operators. You will use our internal AI tools to generate assets and copy at scale, allowing you to focus on Architecture and Strategy.

• The Collision: You will sit next to the Founder and the Lead Engineers.

We debate design based on Logic and First Principles, not just aesthetics.

Who You Are (The Filter)

• High IQ + High EQ: You are a "Blended Mind." You have the visual talent of an artist but the logical rigor of an engineer. You understand that "Design" is just "Logic made Visible." (HCI degrees/Technical backgrounds preferred).

• A Strategic Partner: You think like a Product Manager. You don't ask "What color is the button?"; you ask "Does this flow optimize for User Trust or Revenue?"—and you know the right answer.

• An Anti-Incrementalist: You are bored by "optimizing the checkout flow by 1%." You want to design 0-to-1 Systems.

You have a portfolio of innovation, not just iteration.

The Contract (Sovereign Partnership)

We are a Sovereign Entity. We answer to our customers, not VCs.

• Cash: $220,000 – $360,000 Base Salary.

• Equity: Significant Ownership.

• Profit Sharing (PSB): A cash bonus pool that aligns your wealth with the company's durability.

• Benefits: 100% Premium Coverage for you and your family.

Daily catered lunches.

Unlimited PTO.

The Gateway (How to Engage)

Standard recruiting is broken.

It optimizes for "politeness" and "process," resulting in weeks of scheduling ping-pong just to speak with a non-technical screener.

We optimized for Velocity.

In place of resume-eating machines, we built The Gauntlet—a high-bandwidth mechanism designed to respect your time by accelerating the "No" and the "Yes."

Here’s our application compact:

• You give us Conviction: A 12-minute, unscripted video response. We don't want polished essays; we want to see how your mind deconstructs ambiguity in real-time.

• We give you Access: Your submission bypasses the sourcing layer and is reviewed directly by a Hiring Lead or the Founder.

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