Product Designer, People Products

About the role

You will own the end to end design of AI-native people products that define the future of work at Anthropic. You will partner daily with Claude as your co designer to solve problems that have never been solved before in enterprise software. You will prototype directly in production grade stacks, moving from a blank canvas to user facing features in days rather than months. You will bring radical empathy for employees across Anthropic, deeply understanding their pain points to inform product decisions that scale. You will define the patterns and primitives that become the standard for how AI builds, manages, and evolves teams inside the world leading AI company. You will be the voice of the user in every roadmap discussion, ensuring that the tools we build are not only powerful but also humane and delightful to use. If you are driven by mission and comfortable navigating extreme ambiguity, you will own the craft and outcomes that move our company forward.

Key facts

What you'll do

Define the end to end user experience for AI powered recruiting, performance management, learning, and workforce planning workflows.

Conduct discovery with HR leaders, managers, and individual contributors to translate messy human problems into clear product opportunities.

Translate strategic direction into detailed product requirements, interaction flows, and design specifications that engineers can build against.

Prototype interactions at multiple fidelity levels, from paper sketches to high fidelity interactive mockups and coded explorations.

Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and internal stakeholders to align on metrics, milestones, and tradeoffs.

Evaluate design concepts through qualitative user testing and quantitative analytics to iterate toward optimal solutions.

Champion accessibility, consistency, and quality across the entire People Products portfolio, ensuring patterns scale responsibly.

Explore how Claude Code and other AI development tools can accelerate prototyping, validation, and production readiness of design implementations.

Own the design system for people products, creating reusable components that balance flexibility with coherence.

Translate research findings and emerging AI capabilities into product features that feel intuitive, trustworthy, and delightful.

Partner with researchers and policy experts to ensure product decisions align with safety, ethics, and responsible AI practices.

Maintain a sharp eye on competitive landscapes and emerging interaction models to keep Anthropic at the forefront of AI product innovation.

Document decisions and rationale to ensure clarity and continuity across a fast moving, high impact environment.

Participate in hiring and onboarding initiatives to improve the employee experience of joining and growing at Anthropic.

Requirements

You have 5+ years of experience designing complex workflows, enterprise B2B SaaS, or people products in high stakes environments.

You hold a strong portfolio that demonstrates user centered design thinking, polished UI craftsmanship, and innovative interaction paradigms.

You have a proven track record of executing end to end on large and complex products or a series of products in ambiguous and evolving contexts.

You communicate exceptionally well with cross functional teams and influence without formal authority through clarity and empathy.

You are passionate about crafting safe, scalable, and beneficial artificial intelligence technologies that expand human potential.

You prefer hands on prototyping, especially using front end code such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to bring concepts to life quickly.

You are fluent in design tools such as Figma and can articulate design decisions through components, tokens, and flows.

You understand technical constraints and tradeoffs well enough to collaborate effectively with engineering partners.

You care deeply about details including interaction nuance, copy clarity, and edge case behaviors while maintaining a high velocity of delivery.

You are comfortable working with highly sensitive data and internal tools that impact some of the largest organizations in the world.

You are excited to work in a fast paced, startup environment where priorities can shift rapidly and resource constraints are common.

You are a strong written and verbal communicator who can synthesize complexity into clear narratives for diverse audiences.

You are legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or at any time during the employment relationship.

You are located in one of our primary office locations in San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY.

Nice to have

You have shipped products that leverage AI capabilities in meaningful ways before.

You have experience with developer tools or workflows and understand how engineers think about building software.

You have contributed to open source design systems or authored design tokens that scaled across large organizations.

You have worked with accessibility audits and remediation strategies in complex products.

You have experience applying first principles thinking to redefine how teams operate in ambiguous domains.

Practical notes

This role is based in San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY.

This is a full time position with standard working hours as defined by company policy.

Employment eligibility verification will be required in accordance with company guidelines.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

The position reports to the People Products leadership team and works across cross functional pods.