Staff AI Product Designer
AiDash
Software Engineering, Product, Design, Data Science
Palo Alto, CA, USA
USD 190k-230k / year + Equity
About AiDASH
AiDASH is an enterprise AI company and the leading provider of vegetation risk intelligence for electric utilities. Powered by proprietary VegetationAI™ technology, AiDASH delivers a unified remote grid inspection and monitoring platform that uses a SatelliteFirst approach to identify and address vegetation and other threats to the grid. With a prevention-first strategy to mitigate wildfire risk and minimize storm impacts, AiDASH helps more than 140 utilities reduce costs, improve reliability, and lower liability across their networks. AiDASH exists to safeguard critical utility infrastructure and secure the future of humanAIty™. Learn more at www.aidash.com.
We are a Series C growth company backed by leading investors, including Shell Ventures, National Grid Partners, G2 Venture Partners, Duke Energy, Edison International, Lightrock, Marubeni, among others. We have been recognized by Forbes two years in a row as one of “America’s Best Startup Employers.” We are also proud to be one of the few software companies in Time Magazine’s “America’s Top GreenTech Companies 2024”. Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ recently ranked us at No. 12 among San Francisco Bay Area companies, and No. 59 overall in their selection of the top 500 for 2024.
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The Role
As a Staff AI Product Designer at AiDASH, you'll define the standard for AI-augmented design practice across the organization. You're not just a designer who occasionally uses AI - you're someone who has fundamentally rewired your design workflow around AI tools, using them daily for research synthesis, rapid prototyping, visual exploration, and production-ready output.
You bring extensive experience in user experience design with deep specialization in at least three areas: user research, service design, digital product design, interface design, visual design, or related disciplines. Crucially, you also bring a proven track record of leveraging AI tools to dramatically accelerate and elevate your design work.
How you'll make an impact:
- Drive Technology Transformation: Play a key role in delivering and designing technology solutions that reshape how our clients operate. Use AI tools (e.g., Galileo AI, Uizard, Relume, v0, or similar) to go from concept to interactive prototype in hours, not days—dramatically accelerating ideation-to-delivery timelines
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with cross-functional teams to produce design deliverables—journey maps, service blueprints, roadmaps, prototypes, and design systems
- Apply Research with Precision: Use diverse research methods—context analysis, moderated interviews, experiments, and user testing. Augment these with AI to transcribe interviews, cluster findings, extract patterns from qualitative data, and accelerate insight generation and communication
- Create Production-Ready Designs with AI: Use generative AI for mood boards, visual explorations, icon generation, illustration, and design variations at scale. Craft effective prompts to get high-quality outputs from AI design and image-generation tools, then iterate and refine AI-generated assets to production quality
- Build and Scale AI-Augmented Design Systems: Use AI to help maintain, scale, and enforce consistency across design system components and documentation. Identify and implement AI-powered automations to eliminate repetitive tasks (e.g., auto-generating responsive variants, batch-resizing assets, content population)
- Champion AI Adoption in Design: Evangelize and mentor the broader design and product team on integrating AI tools into their workflows. Establish best practices, standards, and playbooks for AI-assisted design across the organization
- Manage Scope, Risks, and Progress: Proactively monitor project scope, risks, and updates, ensuring clear communication and alignment across stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle
What we're looking for:
Minimum Qualifications:
- 6+ years of experience in UX/product design with a strong portfolio showcasing design principles applied to web and/or mobile platforms
- Demonstrated, hands-on proficiency with AI design tools - must be able to show examples of AI-assisted work in your portfolio (e.g., AI-generated prototypes, AI-enhanced visuals, AI-driven research synthesis)
- Proficiency with core design tools: Figma (required), plus experience with at least two AI-powered design or prototyping tools
- Strong understanding of when to use AI and when human craft is essential - you know AI’s strengths and limitations in a design context
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to craft and deliver engaging presentations
- Proven success collaborating across organizational boundaries and working effectively with cross-functional teams in fast-paced startup environments
- A highly creative mindset with the ability to translate ideas into polished, functional, and visually compelling prototypes - with or without AI assistance
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with AI prototyping tools such as Galileo AI, Uizard, Relume, v0 by Vercel, Framer AI, or Figma AI features
- Familiarity with generative image tools (Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Adobe Firefly) for design exploration and asset creation
- Passion for climate tech, sustainability, or infrastructure modernization
PORTFOLIO REQUIREMENTS
Your portfolio should include at least two case studies that explicitly demonstrate your use of AI tools in the design process. We want to see:
- Before/after examples showing how AI accelerated or improved your workflow
- Your process for integrating AI - what tools you used, how you prompted them, and how you refined the outputs
- Clear articulation of where AI added value vs. where your human judgment and craft were essential
We’re not looking for perfection in AI output - we’re looking for a designer who knows how to wield AI strategically and isn’t afraid to show the messy, iterative process.
What you’ll love:
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: 100% coverage for employees and 80% for their spouses and children
- Health Reimbursement Account (HRA): 100% funded by AiDASH to cover medical deductibles
- 401(k) Plan: Begin contributing after three months of employment to prepare for your future. Currently, no company match is offered
- Parental Leave: Supportive parental leave with 16 weeks for primary caregivers and 4 weeks for secondary caregivers
- Generous Vacation Policy: Accrue 20 vacation days per year, plus enjoy an additional flex holiday to celebrate whatever feels most important to you!
- Winter Break: From December 25th through January 1st, we give everyone time off to recharge and enjoy time with family and friends!
We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to embracing diversity and inclusion in our hiring practices, and we promote a work environment where everyone, from any race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, can do their best work.
We offer a competitive base pay range for this full-time position, which is between $190,000 and $230,000 per year. This range reflects the anticipated base salary for new hires. In addition to the base salary, this position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus and equity. We strive to ensure our compensation packages are equitable and aligned with industry standards. Your recruiter can share more about compensation during the hiring process.
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