Staff AI Product Designer
Staff AI Product Designer at Deeply, an early-stage startup building an AI-powered Relationship OS for couples. Owns end-to-end research and design: interviewing couples, designing AI conversations and recommendations, and evaluating AI experience quality, working directly with the founder and engineering team.
- Compensation
- $150K–$220K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Design
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Exceptional product design and interaction design skills, with experience shipping consumer products
- Strong UX research skills: user interviews, qualitative synthesis, behavioral analysis
- Excellent product judgment and ability to independently solve ambiguous problems
- Deep curiosity about psychology, relationships, and human behavior
- Ability to translate complex insights into simple, compelling user experiences
- High ownership and comfort working in an early-stage startup
- Comfortable collaborating closely with engineers (no coding required)
Nice to have
- Experience designing AI-native products, conversational interfaces, or LLM-powered experiences
- Background in behavioral science, psychology, relationship science, or mental health
- Experience with AI evaluations, personalized recommendations, or behavior-change products
- Experience using quantitative data and qualitative research to drive product improvements
Full description
Compensation: $150k – $220k • 0.5% – 1.0%
About Deeply
Deeply is building a Relationship Operating System for Couples.
We help couples understand each other, navigate recurring challenges, and build healthier relationships through AI-powered conversations, weekly check-ins, personalized recommendations, and shared agreements.
Our goal is to help couples experience meaningful improvements in their relationships with less effort.
We're an early-stage startup working closely with real couples to build an exceptional AI-native consumer product.
The Role
We're looking for an exceptional Staff AI Product Designer who combines the instincts of a UX researcher, the understanding of a behavioral scientist, and the craft of a product designer.
You'll own the process of understanding our users, identifying opportunities, designing better experiences, and validating that those improvements deliver real value.
This is an end-to-end product role. You'll work directly with the founder and engineering team, with significant ownership over the quality and direction of the product.
Your mission: Turn a deep understanding of people and their relationships into AI-powered experiences that genuinely help them.
What You'll Do
1. Understand Users & Identify Opportunities
- Interview couples and analyze qualitative and quantitative product data.
- Review AI conversations, check-ins, recommendations, and user behavior.
- Identify unmet needs, relationship patterns, experience failures, and opportunities for improvement.
2. Design Exceptional AI Experiences
- Design AI conversations, personalized recommendations, reports, and product workflows.
- Translate psychological and behavioral insights into intuitive, effective experiences.
- Own the process from problem discovery through prototyping, testing, and implementation.
3. Evaluate & Improve Product Quality
- Develop evaluation frameworks for AI understanding, conversations, and recommendations.
- Identify why experiences succeed or fail and develop hypotheses for improvement.
- Work with engineers to ship improvements and measure their impact on users.
4. Drive Product Direction
- Synthesize research into clear product recommendations and priorities.
- Identify the highest-leverage opportunities to improve user outcomes.