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AI Product Designer

Design AI experiences people trust: clear capabilities, visible sources, graceful failure and a human way out.

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The practiceAI Design
Practice
AI Design
Location
Remote (India)
Work pattern
Remote
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Experience
5+ years
Salary band
₹26–38 lakh a year Indicative
Openings
1
Posted
Closes
52 days left

About the role

You will design the conversational, copilot and generative interfaces our clients put in front of their customers and teams.

The hard part of AI design is honesty: what the system can and cannot do, where an answer came from, how uncertainty shows, and how a person takes over. You will prototype with real models rather than static mockups, and work with engineers on evals that reflect what users actually need.

What you will do

  1. Design conversational, copilot and generative interfaces
  2. Prototype with real models, not static mockups
  3. Define how uncertainty, citations and escalation appear to users
  4. Work with engineers on evals that reflect user needs
  5. Run usability tests on AI features, including their failure paths

A typical week

Where the hours go in an ordinary week, and which parts agents carry. Whatever an agent drafts or checks, a person decides what happens next.

AI Product Designer 40 hours in a typical week
  • You20 h · 50%
  • You, with an agent drafting16 h · 40%
  • An agent runs it, you review4 h · 10%

  1. Designing AI interfaces

    Conversational, copilot and generative experiences.

    You12 h

  2. Prototyping on real models

    You build with real models; agents help generate test inputs and edge cases.

    You, with an agent drafting10 h

  3. Usability tests, failure paths included

    Watching people use it — and watching it fail.

    You8 h

  4. Eval design with engineers

    Turning what users need into cases an eval can run.

    You, with an agent drafting6 h

  5. Failure clustering from live logs

    Agents cluster failures from production logs; you read the clusters and decide what to fix.

    An agent runs it, you review4 h

An illustrative split, not a timesheet. The hiring lead walks you through the real one in your first conversation.

What you bring

  • 5+ years in product or interaction design
  • Shipped at least one AI-powered feature
  • Prototyping skill beyond Figma
  • Strong research and testing habits

Nice to have

  • Voice or multimodal design
  • Front-end coding ability

Never a reason to rule anyone out. If you have most of the list above and none of this, apply.

Tools you will use

Grouped by what they are for. Nobody knows all of them on day one.

Web & frontend
  • React
Model providers
  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI
Search, SEO & analytics
  • PostHog
Collaboration & design
  • Figma
  • Storybook

Technologies we work with and license — not partnerships.

Your first 90 days

  1. Days 1–30

    Audit the failure paths of one live AI feature and propose fixes

  2. Days 31–60

    A working prototype on a real model, tested with five users

  3. Days 61–90

    The design patterns for citations and escalation, written up for the practice

A hand-drawn goal review on dot-grid paper: tallies for weeks one to eleven beside an assess-and-plan column, two pens resting on the page.
The plan is written down before your first day, and you review it with your lead as the weeks go by.

Where you would work

The places this role can be based. Each team agrees its own studio days; remote roles meet in a studio for a team week each quarter.

  • Two people talking over a laptop at a café table on a balcony in Dharamkot, Himachal Pradesh, forested hills behind them.

    Remote

    Anywhere in India

    For roles marked remote: anywhere in India, with a team week in a studio each quarter.

    Pictured: Dharamkot, Himachal Pradesh

How and where we work

What we offer

With every role

  • Health and family

    Medical insurance · Parental leave · Mental health

  • Time

    Paid leave · Winter break · Flexible days

  • Growth

    Learning budget · Growth reviews · Internal moves

  • Setup

    Your own machine · Home office · Team weeks

The full benefits schedule

The team you would join

AI Design, the practice behind this role.

Designers of AI experiences and AI-powered creative tools — where honesty about what a system can do is part of the design.

Open roles in this practice
2 on the board
Based in
Remote (India) · New Delhi · Ludhiana
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The practice at work AI Design

What AI Design delivers for clients

About AI Design

Where this role sits

L4 of 6 · Senior

Owns a workstream. Sets the approach and grows others.

Each level is defined by the scope you own, not years served. Growth reviews twice a year measure you against the six standards at your level.

Ways in, and ways up
  1. L1 Intern A task
  2. L2 Associate A deliverable
  3. L3 Mid A feature
  4. This role L4 Senior A workstream
  5. L5 Lead An engagement
  6. L6 Principal A practice

The rung below

L3 · Mid — A feature. Owns a piece of work end to end.

Next rung

L5 · Lead — An engagement. Leads a team and the client relationship.

How we hire for this role

5 steps, and a reply after every one.

The same five stages we use for every role. Timings are targets; when one slips, we tell you.

  1. Within 5 working days

    Step 1: Read

    A practitioner in the practice reads your application — your links first, your CV second. No keyword filter, no agency.

  2. Week 1 · 45 min

    Step 2: Conversation

    The hiring lead: the role, your work, and the level and salary band — before you invest more time in us.

  3. Week 2 · 2–3 h, paid

    Step 3: Work sample

    A short exercise close to the job, or a deep review of work you have already done. Paid, and never unpaid spec work.

    Work sample · the brief

  4. Week 3 · half a day

    Step 4: Team day

    Meet the people you would work with, in a studio or on video. Ask them anything; they will answer honestly.

  5. Week 3–4

    Step 5: Offer

    In writing, with the level, the salary, the full benefits and a start date that suits you. No exploding deadlines.

What helps an application

  • A link to work you made, with your own part in it named.
  • One project you could talk through for half an hour.
  • If you used AI, a line on how you checked what it produced.
  • Plain words. We read for substance, not polish.

Adjustments. Extra time, questions in advance, captions, a different format — tell us on the form or by email. Asking never counts against you.

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AI Product DesignerRemote (India) · Remote · Closes 25 Nov

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