Senior Product Designer

San Francisco · 4-6 years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Sep 8, 2026

At a glance

Strella is an AI-powered platform revolutionizing qualitative research with real-time, AI-moderated interviews and automated synthesis. We're a fast-growing, venture-backed startup working with leading teams in product, marketing, and consumer insights.
Our users are often product leaders, designers, researchers, and other discerning teams who care deeply about how software looks, feels, and works. We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer who can pair strong product judgment with a high bar for craft—and who is excited to help build thoughtful AI-powered experiences from concept through production.
This is a high-impact senior individual contributor role. You’ll work closely with another Senior Product Designer, the CEO, engineers, and go-to-market teams to shape priorities and own important features end to end.

Strella is seeking a Senior Product Designer to pair strong product judgment with a high bar for craft and help build thoughtful AI-powered experiences from concept through production.
This is a high-impact senior individual contributor role working closely with another Senior Product Designer, the CEO, engineers, and go-to-market teams.

Lead projects from early problem definition and requirements gathering through design, implementation, launch, and iteration.
Collect and document requirements, clarify tradeoffs, define scope, and keep cross-functional partners aligned.
Work closely with the CEO to prioritize opportunities and translate company and customer needs into focused product bets.
Create intuitive, elegant workflows for a design-conscious audience, including product teams with a high bar for usability and visual craft.
Evolve and apply our design system so that the product remains coherent as it grows.
Design agentic features that help users accomplish complex work while preserving clarity, control, and trust.
Partner closely with engineers throughout the process to understand constraints, evaluate tradeoffs, and maintain quality.
Work with Customer Success and Sales to understand customer requirements, synthesize feedback, and validate proposed solutions.
Work fluently in both Figma and code-based prototyping tools to explore interactions, test assumptions, and communicate ideas.
Contribute directly to the production codebase on lower-risk, frontend-focused work where appropriate.

4–6+ years of product design experience, ideally in fast-moving B2B SaaS, productivity, research, or collaboration products.
A portfolio demonstrating strong product thinking, polished interaction and visual design, and ownership of meaningful features from discovery through launch.
Fluency in Figma and demonstrated ability to build interactive, code-based prototypes.
Strong product and competitive research skills, with examples of using existing solutions and adjacent patterns to inform original design work.
Experience designing AI-powered or agentic features that have shipped to real users, with a practical understanding of AI limitations in production.
Experience partnering closely with engineers and navigating technical constraints and tradeoffs.
Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to document requirements and explain decisions to varied audiences.
Comfort working in a hybrid environment from our San Francisco office four days per week.

Experience designing products for product managers, designers, researchers, or similarly design-conscious users.
Comfort working in a modern frontend codebase and having shipped low-risk, frontend-focused product improvements directly to production.
Experience in qualitative research, insights, AI tooling, or complex workflow software.
Experience helping strengthen or scale a design system in a fast-growing product.