Staff AI Product Designer @ Klarity (Full time)
Academy · San Francisco, CA
$250,000–$313,000from the description
Jul 16, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level product design role at an AI software company, focused on owning the end-to-end design of core user-facing features — from defining visual language and interaction patterns to shipping production-ready code using AI-assisted development tools. The position suits an experienced product designer who has built complex enterprise software, works fluently in design systems, and has hands-on experience designing for LLM-driven, non-deterministic interfaces.
Staff level · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 35 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (web and digital interface designers). range 20–50
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $167,412 (middle half $112,521–$215,763). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role is explicitly titled 'Staff AI Product Designer' and describes org-level design ownership (defining visual language, building the design system, bridging AI capabilities across the platform), which supports the Staff band rather than Senior.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the posting is design-first (Figma, design systems, interaction patterns, UX) but explicitly requires shipping near-production-grade code via AI coding assistants, making 15-1252 Software Developers a credible runner-up.
AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Replit) are listed in the 'Who you are' requirements section as the mechanism for translating designs to code; they are treated as a single interchangeable-tool requirement with alternatives captured accordingly.
The posting explicitly states 'They care about your design portfolio, systems thinking, and track record of shipping, not your degree' — the degree requirement is set to None.
No specific frontend framework (e.g. React) is named in the JD; any frontend coding skill is implied by context only and has not been emitted as a hard gate.
Role is on-site 5 days a week in the SF Bay Area; relocation support to SF Bay Area is offered.
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