Staff Product Designer, Hazel AI

Altruist•San Francisco, CA

16h•$225,000 - $275,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Hazel is Altruist’s AI platform for financial advisors that integrates across their tech stack and turns scattered data into actionable outcomes. We’re hiring an experienced Staff Product Designer for Hazel’s Admin AI—the agent that sits alongside advisors and their teams to capture context, manage work, and take action across notes, meetings, inbox, and tasks. This is an individual-contributor role reporting to the AI Product Design Manager. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Research and own Hazel’s end-to-end Admin AI experience. This role is hybrid, with three in-office days per week at our San Francisco Financial District location.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in product design, with a focus on complex, multi-step workflows and end-to-end ownership from discovery through launch.
Strong interaction design fundamentals and a track record of shipping real products—not just concepts or prototypes.
Ability to prototype and build in code (e.g., HTML/CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript, React, or similar), and comfort working directly in front-end codebases.
A systems-level mindset for how features connect across notes, meetings, inbox, and tasks, and how those pieces should feel cohesive in one admin agent experience.
High craft bar and strong taste in interaction, UX writing, and visual hierarchy, with the portfolio to back it up.
Comfort designing in ambiguous problem spaces with evolving constraints and rapidly changing AI capabilities.
Clear communication and strong, low-ego collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Research.
Provide a portfolio with clear, high-quality examples of shipped product work (not just mockups).
Include any passwords required to access your portfolio; password-protected portfolios without credentials cannot be reviewed.
Have at least 7 years experience; candidates with less than 7 years of relevant professional experience will not be considered for this role.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing or building AI-powered or agentic products, especially those that automate or assist with complex knowledge work.
Background in productivity tools, admin workflows, or advisor/knowledge work software.
Familiarity with design systems and front-end component libraries, ideally in React or similar ecosystems.

Responsibilities

Design agentic workflows for real admin work
Own the Admin AI experience across core surfaces like note-taking, meetings, inbox, and tasks.
Design how Hazel captures context, summarizes information, follows up, asks clarifying questions, and takes action on a user’s behalf—while staying predictable, transparent, and trustworthy.
Invent new interaction patterns for AI-assisted work where traditional UI doesn’t fit, blending automation, suggestions, and human control to reduce cognitive load without hiding important context.
Define how the agent communicates and collaborates
Design patterns for how Hazel signals progress, uncertainty, permissions, and handoffs across multi-step and asynchronous workflows.
Shape how Hazel explains what it’s doing, why it’s doing it, and what it needs from the user in a way that feels intuitive and trustworthy.
Prototype and ship in code
Build functional prototypes using real front-end code—not just static mockups.
Work closely with engineers to refine interaction details and ship features into production, owning features from concept through launch.
Iterate quickly as Hazel evolves
Design, test, and refine experiences in tight feedback loops as Hazel’s capabilities expand with model improvements.
Work on critical-path features, adapting designs as the underlying agent becomes more capable and the product surface area grows.
When you see an issue with the UI or UX, you’ll have the autonomy to fix it yourself in code and ship.
Work fluidly across disciplines and raise the craft bar
Pair with product marketing, brand, and engineers on implementation, explore new model behaviors with research, and pressure-test ideas directly with users and design partners.
Contribute to and help evolve Ethos, our design system, ensuring pixel-perfect implementation and consistent interaction patterns across Hazel and the broader platform.
Obsess over the details that make admin tools feel calm, fast, and reliable: clear hierarchy, thoughtful defaults, crisp feedback loops, and minimal friction in day-to-day use.

Benefits

A hybrid work schedule for most positions to promote strong, in-person collaboration.
Stunning, amenity-filled office spaces in Culver City, CA, San Francisco, CA, and Dallas, TX. Our offices are intentionally designed for comfort, collaboration, and productivity.
Competitive pay and equity for eligible positions.
Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans (HMO and PPO).
401k savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting.
16 week paid parental leave.
Professional growth and development opportunities including an employee mobility program and an annual L&D budget allocation for each employee.
Company perks program (includes discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, and travel, etc.).
Financial guidance program (includes counseling on navigating debt, tracking personal spend, saving and planning goals, home-purchasing preparedness, etc.).
One month work from anywhere policy (with the exception of a few countries).