Product Designer, Design Systems

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role 

As a designer at Anthropic, you'll work alongside product managers, engineers, and AI researchers to shape experiences that transform Claude from a tool into a trusted collaborator:

• We design products that solve real problems by combining deep understanding of user needs with our unique perspective on LLMs.
• Design plays a critical role in building transformative AI systems that feel reliable, interpretable, and trustworthy.
• Designers give shape to our vision for tremendous human progress through AI. We leverage unique skills like storytelling and prototyping to communicate ideas and their feasibility.
• We execute on interaction and visual details with a high degree of polish, focusing on shipping, learning, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain foundational UI components and patterns that ensure consistent, accessible experiences across our web, mobile, and desktop products
• Create and evolve AI Primitives—the key patterns native to AI products that set new standards for usability and delight
• Partner closely with engineers to ensure designs are reflected in code and are actively used by teams across the organization
• Contribute to design guidelines, documentation, and frameworks that help teams ship experiments faster and avoid reinventing the wheel
• Collaborate with product teams to understand their needs, support rapid prototyping, and help unlock frontier interfaces for novel UX challenges
• Balance immediate team needs with long-term system vision, knowing that "speed of innovation matters more than consistency"
• Rapidly prototype ideas using code and other methods to communicate concepts and build excitement

Example projects:

• Design and implement core UI components like modals, navigation patterns, or interactive elements that raise the baseline quality of all our products
• Create design primitives for AI-specific interactions like tool use, steerability, agent behaviors, and other patterns native to AI products
• Partner with teams on signature interactions in the experience that showcase distinctive, differentiated experiences in the Claude interface
• Develop guidelines for content, color usage, or accessibility when coded solutions aren't feasible
• Support teams in rapidly prototyping new ideas while maintaining baseline quality standards
• Create systems that live in code, working closely with engineers to ensure components are implemented and used
• Build bridges and create a permeable membrane for contributions, enabling teams rather than gatekeeping their work

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 8+ years of product design experience, with some period building or maintaining a design system
• Strong portfolio showcasing user-centric design thinking, polished UI craftsmanship, and innovative interaction paradigms
• Proven track record of creating and maintaining design systems that enable teams to move faster
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and "speaking engineering" to ensure designs are implemented in code
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and influence without authority
• Passion for enabling teams, unblocking projects, and making high-quality design accessible to all
• Experience with prototyping, especially using front-end code (e.g. HTML/CSS/JS) preferred
• Understanding of accessibility standards and best practices

Additionally we look for candidates who demonstrate an ability to:

• Ship opinionated products and make things customers want
• Model a builder mindset to explore and communicate through prototyping and design
• Be proactive and make things happen in a startup environment
• Have a technical understanding of LLMs and can build on top of them
• Design new, functional and easy to use interaction design conventions that are on the frontier
• Balance system consistency with speed of innovation
• Create inclusive and networked teams that welcome contributions from across the organization

The expected salary range for this position is:

Annual Salary:$305,000—$385,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But 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.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.  Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.