Responsibilities
- work directly with PMs and engineers to shape and refine what ships as a true collaborator
- own design problems end to end—from figuring out what to build to getting it shipped
- sit close to engineering, review implementations, and push back when something doesn't feel right or fix it yourself when you can
- help shapes what "good" means at Elicit—contributing to our design system, participating in critique, and raising the floor on everything we ship
Requirements
- 3–5 years of product design experience with strong visual sensibility
- You've shipped something you're proud of—a product, a side project, a feature that made it to users
- You're comfortable contributing to a codebase: you've opened PRs, you understand how React components work, you use Tailwind or something like it
- Figma is fluent, not effortful
- Genuine care about visual and interaction craft—you notice the details and sweat them
- You can explain your rationale, take feedback, and help a team converge on a decision
- Based in North American time zones
Nice to Have
- You use AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, v0) as a natural part of your workflow
Benefits
- 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 travel for in-person offsites
- 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
- A new Mac + $1,000 budget to set up your workstation or home office in your first year, then $500 every year thereafter
- $1,000 quarterly AI Experimentation & Learning budget, so you can freely experiment with new AI tools to incorporate into your workflow, take courses, purchase educational resources, or attend AI-focused conferences and events
- A team administrative assistant who can help you with personal and work tasks
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Team
Team size: small. Structure: small team
Additional Information
- We're primarily Bay Area and do quarterly team retreats in person
- 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
- We also offer above-market equity for all roles at Elicit, as well as employee-friendly equity terms
