Senior Product Designer, Mail

Superhuman Superhuman · Consumer · United States · Remote · Engineering, Product, Design, and Marketing

Senior Product Designer for Superhuman Mail, focusing on designing AI-powered workflows to enhance user productivity and streamline email experience. The role involves end-to-end design ownership, from concept to implementation, in collaboration with product managers, engineers, and researchers. Requires experience with AI-powered products and a strong understanding of design fundamentals.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and shape AI-powered workflows: Own the end-to-end design of key workflows in Superhuman Mail, helping users focus on what matters most so they can move faster through their day.
  2. Own design from concept to implementation: Drive design work through every stage of the process: crafting well-executed ideas and sketches, interactive prototypes, high-fidelity designs, and final implementation.
  3. Conduct research and competitor analysis: Perform qualitative and quantitative research to understand customers, and competitor analysis to understand the landscape. Leverage customer insights to enhance the product experience and amplify user engagement.
  4. Set the bar for craft: Elevate the design culture at Superhuman by pursuing remarkable quality in your design craft and producing consistent, high-quality work.
  5. Influence product strategy: Partner with product, research, and data to set the vision for your team, and build a roadmap of projects that improve company objectives and metrics. Engage with stakeholders across the company, effectively communicating design updates to leadership for feedback and approval.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of relevant experience in similar product design roles
  • Demonstrated mastery of product design fundamentals, including visual and interaction design, typography, layout, and visual hierarchy
  • Experience and curiosity with AI-powered products
  • Comfort working end-to-end, from early discovery and wireframes to high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and shipped products
  • Strong collaborator with a bias to action
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently
  • Portfolio showing senior-level problem framing, interaction design, and high-quality execution

What the JD emphasized

  • designing for trust, speed, and user control