Product Designer

About the role

We’re looking for a product designer to join us on the design team here at Elicit. You might be that person if…

• You have a POV on what AI apps often miss. What is it? 

• You’re ok with a smaller design team who works with less process, more overlaps, a broader remit, and a relentless but pragmatic pursuit of impact. 

• You’re comfortable doing your own user research, and you’re adept at unpacking customer needs.

• You’re ok with lots of pragmatic feature definition as well as big picture thinking. All the nits and gore and glamor that comes with a small team and early stage product. 

• You enjoy operating from start to finish. Also comfortable operating initially from higher levels of ambiguity and driving decisions from there.

• You want to pursue harder interaction and product design problems, meaning more specific user needs than your typical SaaS productivity tool. 

• You like to bear hug hard problems like how to improve analysis and synthesis, how to make compelling arguments, and how our tools shape the way we think. And while you love a good “tools for thought” post, you love shipping even more.

 

Interested? 

Reach out using the prompt below — introduce yourself, and consider telling us a bit about your experience with any of the above. Portfolios can be a huge overhead to produce, so send it if you’ve got it, but don’t let that stop you otherwise.

We don’t have specific experience requirements, other than that you’ve worked as a product designer in the past. 

If it seems like there’s potentially a good fit, we’ll reach out and have a chat. 

About the design team

• Yana, Brad, and Chad. Emily will soon be helping out part time, too. Thanks, Emily!

• We subscribe to the all the above beliefs

• We greatly value amazing teammates

Compensation, benefits, and perks

In addition to working on important problems as part of a productive and positive team, we also offer great benefits (with some variation based on location):

• Flexible work environment: work from our office in Oakland or remotely with time zone overlap (between GMT and GMT-8), as long as you can commit to spending at least 1 of every 6 weeks in person for retreats and coworking events

• Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you, generous coverage for the rest of your family

• Flexible vacation policy, with a minimum recommendation of 20 days/year + company holidays

• 401K with a 6% employer match

• $2,000 device budget to start, with more accumulating for each month of work

• $500 / year personal development budget

• A team administrative assistant who can help you with personal and work tasks

• You can find more reasons to work with us in this thread!

For all roles at Elicit, we use a data-backed compensation framework to keep salaries market-competitive, equitable, and simple to understand.

Product Design roles start between $190-205K + equity, depending on your level. This is based on hires who can contribute at an L3/career-level or above. As mentioned above, we're not looking for a specific experience level, happy to consider more senior folk too.