Exceptional Designer

xAI xAI · AI Frontier · Palo Alto, CA · Design

Designer for consumer products at xAI, focusing on social platforms and AI-powered interfaces. Responsibilities include designing end-to-end experiences, understanding user needs, rapid prototyping with AI-assisted tools, and collaborating with engineering and research to ship high-quality products.

What you'd actually do

  1. Designing end-to-end product experiences across social and AI-driven products
  2. Deeply understanding user needs, behaviors, and emerging use cases
  3. Rapidly exploring, prototyping, and iterating using both traditional and AI-assisted design tools
  4. Partnering closely with engineering to ship high-quality, polished experiences
  5. Using qualitative research, product data, and intuition to guide decisions

Skills

Required

  • Have shipped meaningful consumer product features on web and/or mobile
  • Are comfortable working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
  • Embrace new design and engineering workflows, including AI-assisted tooling
  • Care deeply about craft, clarity, and user experience
  • Communicate clearly and collaborate well across disciplines
  • Have an interest in language models, social systems, or both

Nice to have

  • Strong portfolio demonstrating product thinking and execution
  • Experience designing consumer-facing products at scale
  • Familiarity with modern design and prototyping tools
  • Experience working closely with engineers and product partners

What the JD emphasized

  • shipped meaningful consumer product features on web and/or mobile
  • Embrace new design and engineering workflows, including AI-assisted tooling
  • Care deeply about craft, clarity, and user experience