Product Designer
Valkai· Product
Hybrid (New York, San Francisco)Full TimePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Product Designer at Valkai responsible for outcomes, delivering scalable design across product, engineering, and pharma stakeholders to simplify complex life sciences workflows and establish reusable design patterns for an AI-powered platform.
Responsibilities
- Own product design end to end: Partner with PM and engineering to frame problems, explore solutions, and ship improvements. Stay involved through build and iteration, not just handoff.
- Simplify complex life sciences workflows: Distill multi-step, high-stakes processes into interfaces that feel intuitive without sacrificing the rigor pharma and biotech users need. Make AI feel accessible, not intimidating.
- Start with an LLM and end in Figma: Use AI to move fast through early exploration, then bring validated concepts into Figma for full state coverage and production readiness.
- Set and hold the bar for craft: Sweat the details that shape how the product feels: typography, spacing, transitions, empty states, hover behaviors.
- Design for the 80/20: Make the product work consistently across customers and use cases. Encode judgment and complexity under the hood while keeping the default experience simple.
- Build the scaffolding for scale: Establish reusable components, interaction patterns, and design abstractions that let the team rapidly ship new agents without custom-designing every workflow.
Qualifications
- 2–6 years of experience in product design at an enterprise AI startup.
- Experience shipping products where craft and polish matter.
- Experience designing for probabilistic or non-deterministic systems (AI, ML).
- Experience at a fast-growing startup.
- NYC-based.
Skills
Required:User-centered designProblem framing and collaboration with PM/Engineering
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents.
- Generous PTO policy.
- Paid parental leave.
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Valkai
Agent Systems for Life Sciences
Valkai brings life back to life sciences — Agent Systems that coordinate and automate complex workflows across teams.
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