Senior Lead Product Designer

About the role

At Ai2, our design team shapes how people experience, understand, and interact with AI. From exploring open models in the Ai2 Playground to defining new interaction patterns for AI agents and the OlmoEarth platform. We're a small, collaborative team that works closely with researchers, engineers, and program managers to turn complex AI systems into meaningful user experiences. We value curiosity, collaboration, and a shared commitment to pushing the boundaries of AI-driven design and technology. Your Next Challenge: Key responsibilities of the role include: Product & UX Design Own the end-to-end design process for complex, multi-surface AI products, from user research and information architecture to interaction design, prototypes, and visual polish. Translate complex technical and research concepts into simple, discoverable, and intuitive user experiences. Design interaction flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups using modern tools like Figma. Spearhead efforts to evaluate AI-based design tools to standardize and improve design workflows. Partner with PMs, engineers, and researchers to align product strategy, user needs, and technical feasibility. Work cross-functionally and nimbly to ensure consistent UX across products, demos, and research. Design Systems & Frameworks Expand Ai2's UX design system, patterns, and components that enable fast iteration and consistent experiences. Define and evangelize scalable design frameworks that connect visual and interaction design to Ai2's broader mission. Contribute to and evolve a unified design language across projects. Strategic Influence & Collaboration Drive design alignment across teams, clarifying priorities and ensuring design quality scales with impact. Partner with leadership to shape the long-term user experience strategy for Ai2's open models and tools. Communicate design rationale and trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences. Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to define mechanisms that improve design collaboration, velocity, and quality. Think creatively to invent and execute innovative solutions that present our research in ways that accelerate and expand impact