Senior Product Designer, AI
Sigma Computing is hiring a Senior Product Designer, AI in San Francisco, United States. It pays $210k-$250k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Sigma Computing.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- The posting mentions Claude, Databricks and Cursor among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- Sigma Computing has 76 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Design AI-native interaction paradigms, write code with AI assistants, and build evaluation frameworks for AI UX.
Sigma is transforming how businesses allow customers to build apps, agents and dashboards on top of governed enterprise data. Hence, we are growing the design team and looking for designers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of designers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users.
We're looking for a Senior Product Designer / Design Engineer who sits at the intersection of interaction design and AI engineering: someone who uses AI to ship faster, builds the skills and evals that make AI more effective, and invents new interaction paradigms for how people work alongside intelligent systems.
This isn't a traditional design role. Yes you'll be using Figma, but also writing code with AI, training it, evaluating it, and questioning every assumption about what a "UI" can be when the interface itself reasons.
Please note this is a 4 day on-site role in our San Francisco office.
What You'll Do
- Start with AI, stay with AI. Use LLMs to clarify scope, draft specs, surface edge cases, and align your team before committing to a direction, use AI coding tools to build and iterate on the solution itself, and merge code to prod when fits.
- Prototype in code. Build working interfaces with Cursor and Claude Code, guiding structure, behavior, interaction, motion and UX quality while AI handles implementation. Partner directly with engineering to decide what moves into the product and what stays as a validated spike.
- Bring it to production. Fix small interaction and refinement issues directly on prod code.
- Design new AI interaction paradigms for conversational interfaces. Invent and validate novel patterns for how users converse with, direct, and trust AI systems - especially in data contexts where precision and confidence matter.
- Write evals, skills, and help on tools. Build the scaffolding that makes AI reliable: evaluation frameworks, reusable skills, and tooling that helps Sigma's AI features behave predictably and improve over time.
- Shape model behavior. Iterate on evals and training to improve AI performance on design output. In other words: teach AI how to be a great designer.
- Set the craft bar. Define what great AI-native UX looks like at Sigma: patterns and principles the broader team builds on.
What We're Looking For
- 4+ years in interaction design or design engineering, with recent hands-on AI tooling experience — not just prompting, but building.
- Demonstrated use of AI coding assistants to ship real product (and side projects). You can describe what you built, how AI accelerated it, and where you had to steer it.
- Experience writing evals, agents, prompt libraries, or skills for AI systems. You understand why evaluation is the hardest part of AI product development.
- Strong interaction design fundamentals: you know when to reach for a new pattern and when to extend a familiar one, and you can defend that choice to anyone.
- Opinions about AI UX: trust signals, error recovery, progressive disclosure of reasoning and real examples of how you've addressed these.
- Exceptional ability to communicate design decisions to PMs, engineers, ML researchers, and executives.
- A portfolio that includes AI-powered or AI-adjacent product work.
Portfolio Requirements
- Transformed intricate interaction problems into elegant flows: bonus if includes conversational interfaces
- We want to see designs that have been successfully released that demonstrate system-wide thinking, breadth and depth in interactive design skills and AI first
- We want to see your process and progressive evolution of your designs, including the business problem you were trying to solve, constraints and assumptions you needed to work within, where the design started and your significant iterations leading to the final product.
- We want to understand how your designs furthered company objectives while meeting user needs
The base salary range for this position is $210,000 - $250,000 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work at Sigma Computing. This role is eligible for a variable pay (based on goal achievement), stock options, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.
About us:
Sigma is the AI Apps and agentic analytics platform built on the cloud data warehouse. Business and technical teams use Sigma to explore live data, build intelligent applications, and automate critical workflows all without moving data or breaking governance. Sigma supports a spreadsheet interface, SQL, Python, and native AI in a single governed workspace, giving every team the speed to act and IT the control to scale. Sigma is trusted by more than 2,000 customers, including AMD, Duolingo, Colgate-Palmolive, and JPMorgan Chase.
Sigma announced its $80M in Series E financing in May 2026. The round was led by Princeville Capital, with new strategic investors Databricks Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, and Workday Ventures participating alongside returning investors Altimeter Capital, Avenir Growth Capital, D1 Capital Partners, K5 Global, NewView Capital, Spark Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, and XN. This milestone follows Sigma reaching $200M in annual recurring revenue in April 2026, with more than 100% year-over-year growth and 1.1 million new active users added in the latest fiscal year.
Come join us!
Benefits For Our Full-Time Employees:
- Equity
- Generous health benefits
- Flexible time off policy. Take the time off you need!
- Paid bonding time for all new parents
- Traditional and Roth 401k
- Commuter and FSA benefits
- Lunch Program
- Dog friendly office
Sigma is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a smart and strong team regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran, or any other protected status. We look forward to learning how your experience can enable all of us to grow.
Note: We have an in-office work environment in all our offices in SF, NYC, London and Sydney. All roles have a 25% travel expectation unless explicitly stated otherwise.
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Sigma’s use of AI
This hiring process utilizes artificial intelligence tools to assist in candidate screening and assessment. Our AI tools are designed to complement, not replace, human decision-making.
How we rate this
Senior Product Designer, AI at Sigma Computing rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- Tell me about a project where interaction design was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where design engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where ai prototyping was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where evals was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where conversational ui was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Interaction Design, Design Engineering, AI Prototyping, Evals, and Conversational UI. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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