Founding Product Designer

P-1 AI is building an AI engineer agent for the physical world named Archie. As the founding product designer, you will define the product experience for AI agents in engineering, working closely with the CEO and engineering teams to create a user-friendly and effective product design.

Responsibilities:

• Design the core user experience for Archie, including how engineers assign work, review results, inspect reasoning, compare alternatives, and share work back and forth with an AI teammate
• Turn messy design-partner conversations into product flows, wireframes, prototypes, and crisp product decisions
• Sit with users as they try Archie on real engineering tasks, watch where they get confused or skeptical, and redesign the experience until it clicks
• Create prototypes that make abstract AI capabilities concrete for customers, investors, recruits, and internal teams
• Build P-1 AI’s product design system, including interaction patterns, information hierarchy, visual language, and reusable components
• Partner with frontend and AI engineers to ship product quickly, then tighten the experience through repeated cycles of user feedback
• Help decide what Archie should expose, what it should hide, when it should ask for help, and how it should communicate uncertainty in high-trust engineering workflows

Requirements:

• You have designed products for technical users where the underlying domain was complex, ambiguous, and/or expert-driven
• You can show a portfolio artifact where you personally turned a confusing workflow into a product experience that feels clear and powerful
• You are strong at interaction design, product architecture, prototyping, and visual craft
• You are comfortable working from first principles when there is no existing product category to copy
• You like spending time with users, especially when the feedback is messy, technical, or contradictory
• You can move between low-fidelity sketches, polished mockups, written product thinking, and implementation details without losing momentum