About the job
We’re on a mission to democratize AI by building the definitive AI data development platform. The AI landscape has gone through incredible change between 2016, when Snorkel started as a research project in the Stanford AI Lab, to the generative AI breakthroughs of today. But one thing has remained constant: the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production-ready systems. We work with some of the world’s largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before. Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler!(This role is a hybrid role based in Redwood City or Redwood City + San Francisco)
We aim to create intelligent, thoughtful and user centric experiences across all of our products and touchpoints, and we are looking for a Product Designer to join us and play a key role in delivering our objectives.
You will collaborate with Product Designers, Engineers, Product managers and Industry Leaders to deliver the best possible customer experience on the Snorkel Flow platform. As a product designer you will lead a range of UX initiatives and contribute to the strategy of how user experience design is applied across our products whilst maintaining high standards and industry best practices.
Main Responsibilities
- Responsible for understanding our users, defining their goals and needs, and communicating them to the Snorkel team
- Developing user personas and usage scenarios that can test the efficiency of our designs
- Work collaboratively with the team to craft end-to-end flows and interaction patterns that make our products intuitive and easy to use
- Understand, apply and advocate user-centred design techniques and processes, from project initiation through to on-going product evolution
- Collaborate with other designers and engineers to test ideas, share challenges, provide feedback and build quality in your practice
- Create effective handover materials as part of design specifications, which clearly communicate interaction patterns or element behaviours to engineering teams
- Participate in generative user research and competitor analysis to understand customers needs, behaviours. Isolate pain points in user flows and improve the overall product experience
- Working alongside both brand and product teams to define, craft and evolve our design system, creating a unified experience across platforms and customer touchpoints
- Collaborate with engineering, strategy and product design to create intuitive interfaces for complex ML development
- Proactively solicit and provide feedback from designers and the broader product team in order to continually raise our bar for quality, while also tackling mentorship of more junior members of the team
- Qualified candidates should have at least 4+ years experience working as UX professional or product designer.
- A strong portfolio with a variety of design challenges you have solved to demonstrate thoughtful approach and attention to detail
- Proven experience of UCD design principles and methodologies, with an ability to conduct competitor analysis & benchmarking, create user journeys, user flows, sitemaps, wireframes and interactive prototypes
- Experience conducting usability testing; demonstrating an ability to plan, conduct and analyse your own studies using in-person, remote or online methods
- Ability to work collaboratively by providing and receiving feedback in a fast-paced environment
- Keen interest and familiarity with AI, machine learning or data science. Frontend web development experience is a plus!
- You’re a stickler for detail, quality, and always looking for ways to make things better
- You know that good design is often a journey, using early concepts and prototypes to help build conviction along the way
- You’re a passionate advocate for evidence-based design, with strong skills in both discovery research and usability testing
- You enjoy taking on fuzzy problems and boiling them down into simple, elegant, easy to use solutions
- You have a good sense of humour and enjoy being part of a phenomenal team
Be Your Best At Snorkel
Snorkel AI is on a mission to make machine learning practical for everyone, and it starts with building a team that welcomes, represents and gives opportunity to all. We work at the frontier of AI and software engineering, and believe that underrepresented communities need to play a part in shaping the future of these fields. At Snorkel AI, we actively work to create an environment that values end-to-end ownership, diverse forms of impact, and opportunities for personal growth.
Snorkelers are supported by an amazing team and an amazing set of benefits. We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for Snorkelers and their families, plus a yearly wellness stipend. Our 401k program lets Snorkelers plan for their future and our parental leave program lets new parents take up to 20 weeks of paid time off. Learn more about these benefits and more — like our workstation setup allowance — on our Careers page.
Snorkel AI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Snorkel AI prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
