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Product Designer

Sakana AI· Product
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Hybrid (Global)full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Product Designer at Sakana AI shaping AI-native product experiences at the frontier of generative AI, leading design culture across multiple products and collaborating with cross-functional teams to redefine how AI products should behave.

Responsibilities

  • Reframe what AI means for society, people, organizations, and work, and shape the vision for product experiences unique to Sakana AI
  • Design AI-native experiences by building interaction patterns that account for AI’s non-determinism, uncertainty, failure, explainability, user oversight, and trust-building
  • Rapidly validate design hypotheses through user interviews, usability testing, and prototype validation
  • Lead end-to-end from product concept design, experience design, UI design, prototyping, implementation review, to branding and communication design
  • Collaborate with ARE, SWE, PdM, and researchers to find the intersection of technical feasibility and user value, and make decisions on product direction
  • Establish and maintain design systems, UI patterns, AI interaction patterns, and component design across multiple products
  • Leverage prototyping tools, design tools, and coding tools to create verifiable prototypes that go beyond static mockups
  • Lead Sakana AI’s design culture by running design and prototype reviews, sharing research, and collaborating with external designers

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of practical experience as a Product Designer or similar role in software products
  • Experience leading design end-to-end, from product concept design through delivery to post-release improvement
  • Product development experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders such as PdMs, engineers, researchers, business development, and customers
  • Experience improving experiential value by leveraging user research, usability testing, business understanding, and qualitative and quantitative insights
  • High craft skills in experience design, information architecture, prototyping, design specification creation, interaction design, visual design, and design system construction/operation
  • Strong communication skills to perform in a global team, with a high level of proficiency in both Japanese and English
  • Ability to structure ambiguous and complex challenges and articulate and visualize them in a way that enables the team to make decisions
  • Passion for building products with global reach at Sakana AI

Skills

Required:Product designUser research & usability testingCommunication (Japanese & English)Information architecture & prototypingDesign systemsCross-functional collaboration
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Sakana AI

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