Senior Product Designer

Epoch AI is looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead our work in UI/UX and data visualization. This role involves translating complex research into intuitive, engaging designs, and setting the direction for how our research is perceived and used.  

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to help us communicate our research. You will take ownership of our design work, building our website and creating dashboards and data visualizations with an emphasis on UX design. This work is key for our engagement with the research community and policymakers, and directly impacts how our research is understood.

 

You’ll report directly to our Head of Operations and partner closely with leadership, communications, web development, and research teams to set design direction.

 

This role is fully remote, and we are able to offer contracts in many countries, but we have a strong preference for candidates in North and South American timezones. We invite anyone who is interested to apply, regardless of background, experience, or credentials. Please do not include a cover letter, photograph, or headshot of yourself, or any personal information that is not relevant to the role for which you're applying (including marital status, age, identity traits, etc.).

Applications are rolling.

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Responsibilities

• Define and own strategy across our website and data products 

• Establish design processes and quality standards for the organization 

• Lead design projects end-to-end, from problem definition through delivery

• Design responsive user interfaces, graphs, and data visualizations 

• Conduct user research to help us understand audience interests and how they use our research

• Create design specifications, mock-ups, and prototypes while contributing to our design library

• Manage and mentor another designer and part-time contributors

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of experience designing interactive digital products, including leading projects

• Experience mentoring and managing designers, contractors

• Fluency in interpreting data visualizations and skill in communicating scientific and statistical insights to non-expert audiences

• A portfolio demonstrating experience in UI/UX and data visualization

• Ability to work independently, set priorities, and lead design work in a fast-paced environment

• Strong grasp of typography, color, and layout 

• Ability to work comfortably in Figma, including auto-layout and components

• Experience establishing or maintaining a design system

• Interest in Epoch AI’s work

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Epoch AI’s research or related topics

• Experience with scientific communication

• Experience in illustration, branding

• Familiarity with front-end development, HTML + CSS + JS

• Experience with Python libraries like Matplotlib/Plotly or other data visualization programming tools

• Good written communication skills

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual salary between $120,000–$175,000 USD, depending on location. 

• Salaries are not restricted to USD, and contracts and payments are usually in local currencies. Conversions are based on one-year average exchange rates. 

• Fully remote environment, including flexible work hours. 

• Competitive global benefits program, including a comprehensive health insurance program—including supplemental benefits specific to a local country, as available and mandated by local law—and life insurance and a pension plan, if applicable in your country. 

• Generous paid time off (PTO), including no specific limit on PTO with 30 days per year protected, unlimited personal and sick leave, and 4 months paid parental leave for permanent staff with at least 12 months of tenure (prorated parental leave if less than 12 months). 

• A flexible and generous expense policy for you to spend on equipment and a large range of productivity tools or learning/development opportunities you might find valuable, subject to regulations and manager approval. 

• Paid work trips, including 3 staff retreats per year and relevant conferences. 

• Access to our very well-equipped offices in Berkeley, California, including paid meals, snacks, gym, and more. All staff, independently of where they are based, have access to the office for at least 20 days each year.

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Additional Information

While we welcome applicants from all time zones, we prefer candidates who overlap with UTC–4/5 (Eastern Time). We also prefer candidates who can travel: we hold three retreats per year, during which we record podcast episodes and other communication efforts.

Please submit all of your application materials in English and note that we require professional level English proficiency. 

Epoch is committed to building an inclusive, equitable, and supportive community for you to thrive and do your best work. We’re committed to finding the best people for our team, so please don’t hesitate to apply for a role regardless of your age, gender identity/expression, political identity, personal preferences, physical abilities, veteran status, neurodiversity or any other background. Please email careers@epoch.ai if you have any questions about this role, accessibility requests, or if you want to request an extension to the application deadline. However, we will not review applications submitted to this email address; please submit your application through the link on this page.  

About Epoch AI

Epoch AI is a research institute that investigates trends in machine learning and the economic consequences of AI. Our mission is to develop a comprehensive, publicly accessible knowledge base on AI that informs policymakers, industry leaders, and society at large. 

We strive to achieve both rigor and accessibility to our work, as exemplified by some of our most successful projects, including our database of AI models and our AI trends dashboard. Our body of research includes our work on compute trends (IJCN 2022), data scarcity (ICML 2024), and algorithmic progress (NeurIPS 2024). You can read more about our work and mission on our website and in this Time profile.