Sr Product Designer

Location: San Francisco, or US (Remote)

The role:

As a key member of our design team, you will be responsible for crafting the UX/UI of Cleanlab Studio. Cleanlab Studio is an enterprise, no-code data curation platform that enhances the reliability of data-driven solutions such as LLMs, ML models, analytics, product catalogs, data warehouses, and BI systems. You will tackle complex design challenges, developing innovative solutions to help users navigate large volumes of AI-curated data and creating intuitive interfaces for refining datasets through AI-suggested actions. You will see your designs brought to life by a talented engineering team in a dynamic startup environment.

Design at Cleanlab thrives on transparent collaboration between product, design, and development teams. We work swiftly and efficiently, always leaving space for innovation and creative thinking. Our approach is iterative: we continuously build, learn, and refine user experiences. Driven by data and user research, our product choices prioritize the human experience. At Cleanlab, we prioritize design systems thinking, beauty as function, accessibility, and diversity. If you excel in a fast-paced environment and love to apply your product design expertise, Cleanlab is the perfect place for you.

In your cover letter, please include a link to your online portfolio, your CV or LinkedIn profile, and 1-2 paragraphs about your favorite project from any of your work or personal experiences, plus a few words to describe why Cleanlab and AI systems are interesting to you. Including links to personal creative projects is encouraged. Show us who you are and what you like to do!

We’re looking for someone with:

  • 4+ years of relevant product design experience—ideally at a tech-forward, product-driven company and experience with enterprise software. Experience with software for Data/AI would be a plus!

  • Fundamental understanding of the formal elements of design–not just limited to product design – including branding, color stories, typography, layout, balance, rhythm, and proportion

  • Experience in building and maintaining accessible design systems

  • A passion for product design, demonstrable through a portfolio of design systems, case studies, iconography, Figma libraries, illustrations, digital experiments, CSS art, or anything else—show us what you’ve got!

In this role, you can expect to:

  • Develop Figma designs for new functionality in a novel type of SaaS application that uses AI to improve data with a human-in-the-loop workflow

  • Collaborate with a team of talented frontend engineers to ensure your designs are properly implemented, with an eye for detail

  • Create UX insights to make metrics-driven design decisions

  • Partner with engineering, customer success, and product on user research projects Including talking with users and customers to understand their pain points and workflows

  • Maintain and contribute to the Cleanlab’s design system

  • Synthesize broadly scoped, loose concepts, into defined, tactical deliverables

  • Create sketches and prototypes to demonstrate and test solutions before high-definition designs

  • Help the team influence strategic decisions using data-driven metrics and user research

  • Work closely with company stakeholders to strategize design initiatives and drive toward company goals

You may be a good addition to the team if you have:

  • An obsession for UI, UX, and AI

  • A passion for designing developer tools and are familiar with open-source and enterprise software

  • An ability to reduce complex problems down into concise stories, delivered through interaction

  • Experience working with and maintaining accessible design systems and applying those systems to design-system-driven products

  • A systems perspective and can extrapolate and extend shared patterns and behaviors

  • An adaptability to change and an open mind to new perspectives

  • A detail-oriented mindset with an ability to explain your work, process, and decisions to cross-functional stakeholders and crave feedback to help you produce your best work

  • A belief that highly technical products can also be beautiful and fun to use

  • A love for working with others to reinforce a culture of mutual learning and growth

  • Experience working on a remote, cross-functional team

  • User research experience

Attributes we look for:

  • Empathy for end-users and consumers

  • Humility and a learning mindset

  • Listens to understand

  • Able to explain complex ideas simply

  • Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills

  • Reflective

  • Responsible and takes ownership of work

How to apply


Benefits

Working at Cleanlab is awesome! Beyond the opportunity to work at a well-funded AI startup with an incredible, friendly founding team of MIT graduates, all full-time employees receive the following:

  • Premium health insurance (+ dental and vision)
    • We provide a fantastic $4 (we cover the rest) health insurance option. We also provide a $0 deductible 100% coverage premium health care option for those who prefer the best health insurance.
  • Work with a talented team unified by a vision to solve challenging problems in artificial intelligence.
  • Professional development stipend to keep up with the latest innovations in ML and software.
  • Competitive salary (+ equity offering for certain roles), with regular opportunities for a raise if things are going well.
  • Relocation bonus to move to San Francisco

The compensation range for this role is $145,000 to $175,000. The final offer details are determined by several factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the pay range provided.

About us

Prior to Cleanlab, our founders (3 ML PhDs from MIT) worked at OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, AWS, Facebook AI Research (FAIR), Dropbox, Oculus, Palantir, NASA, General Electric, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT, Harvard, and Stanford – at every place we worked we repeatedly encountered the same issue – AI solutions failed to work reliably on real-world, human-centric data due to label errors and poor data quality. So, we spent eight years of PhD research at MIT inventing a new field to solve this problem and after successful pilots with world-leading organizations, Cleanlab emerged.

Everything we do at Cleanlab is guided by our north star – to improve the world’s ML data more easily and quicker than any other solution – enabling AI systems to train more reliably on real-world, messy, error-prone data. We develop next-generation data-centric AI, open-source algorithms and provide no-code SaaS enterprise solutions to help individuals and teams at companies (across all industries) diagnose/fix issues in their datasets and produce more reliable ML models by providing clean labels for training.

While many companies can help store/manage data or develop ML models, there exist few solutions today to improve the quality of existing data, which is the core asset of the modern enterprise. This is where you come in. At Cleanlab, you’ll be able to take ownership of critical projects that pioneer the future of data-centric AI.

We are a hybrid company, with over half of our team (and office) located in San Francisco.

  • Read about the Cleanlab team here.
  • Read how Cleanlab went from MIT PhD research to tech used by Amazon, Google, etc here.
  • See what Google, Tencent, and other Cleanlab users think here.