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Product Designer

Mountain View, CA, Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

You will own end-to-end product design for web and mobile products. You will build a design system from scratch and work with engineers to ship products.

What you will do

  • Own end-to-end product design for web and mobile including discovery, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI
  • Frame problems by talking to users and studying how they work
  • Build a design system from scratch including foundations and a shared component library
  • Design consistent experiences across products and platforms
  • Partner closely with engineers to prototype, hand off, and review builds
  • Use research, usability testing, and product data to validate decisions
  • Help shape team processes like design reviews and critique

Required qualifications

  • 1 - 4 years of experience in UI/UX design or a related role, with shipped work
  • A portfolio showing both web and mobile product design (responsive web and native iOS/Android patterns)
  • Strong UX fundamentals: information architecture, interaction design, user flows, and usability
  • Strong visual craft: layout, typography, hierarchy, and attention to detail
  • Clear evidence of systems thinking: reusable components, patterns, or a design system built or contributed to
  • Fluency in Figma and rapid prototyping
  • Ability to explain and defend design decisions to engineers and stakeholders in clear written and spoken English

Nice to have

  • Experience as an early or founding designer at a startup or on a new team
  • Experience with design tokens, theming, and accessibility standards (WCAG)
  • Ability to prototype in code (HTML/CSS, React) or comfort using AI tools in your design workflow
  • Experience designing data-dense or workflow-heavy tools: dashboards, internal tools, marketplaces, or B2B platforms
  • Background in AI products, data platforms, or work involving remote expert contributors

Benefits

  • equity
  • health coverage
  • dental coverage
  • vision coverage
  • PTO
  • flexible work schedule

About the company

Abaka AI is a data partner for AI companies providing datasets and data collection and annotation services. The company has headquarters in Silicon Valley and teams in Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.