Senior Product Designer

TL;DR

This is a great opportunity for an accomplished Senior Product Designer with a passion for simplifying technical complexity and elevating user experiences. This role will be a key force in shaping the end-to-end experience for an enterprise AI platform, empowering developers, AI Engineers, and enterprise users to create the next generation of AI-powered tools in a way that feels intuitive, powerful, and delightful.

Why deepset

At deepset, we’re on a mission to make custom AI solutions accessible to every organization. With Haystack, thousands of developers build advanced LLM applications every day, while our enterprise-ready AI Platform helps companies turn large language models into business value. We’re remote-first, flexible, and built on a culture of trust and ownership. You’ll collaborate with top-tier tech talent, tackle meaningful challenges, and help transform complex AI into solutions that are simple, powerful, and ready for the real world.

What you will do

• End-to-end design: Lead the full product design process—from concept to delivery—while maintaining and evolving a unified design language for the AI platform and developer tools.
• Simplify Complexity: Translate advanced technical requirements (LLM orchestration, pipelines, governance, analytics, observability) into intuitive workflows and interfaces that balance power with usability and reduce cognitive load.
• User Empathy & Advocacy: Engage with users and enterprise stakeholders to uncover pain points and workflow needs, translating insights into impactful design improvements that elevate the product experience.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Partner closely with PMs, engineers, and AI experts from discovery to delivery, contributing to agile workflows and using design thinking and storytelling to shape product direction.
• Establish & Evolve Design Systems: Maintain and evolve a scalable design system that ensures consistency, usability, accessibility, and technical accuracy across all product surfaces.
• Elevate Design Culture: Promote best practices, strengthen design culture at deepset, and champion design-led product development.

What you bring to the team

• Experience: 5+ years in product design, with a focus on complex B2B/SaaS products (ideally developer tools or data/AI platforms) and a track record of shipping solutions for technical workflows.
• Systems Thinker: Someone who sees the bigger picture—viewing complex problems as interconnected systems and focusing on the relationships and dependencies between elements.
• Technical Acumen: Confident working with engineers, grasping APIs and data flows, and turning abstract ideas into actionable designs.
• Full-Stack Design Skills: Skilled across the design process—from research and journey mapping to prototyping, UI, interaction, and handoff to development.
• Collaboration & Influence: Strong communicator who collaborates across teams and shapes product strategy with stakeholder alignment.
• Craft & Efficiency: Balances attention to detail and visual polish with pragmatic iteration—knowing when to perfect and when to move fast.
• Empathy & User-Centeredness: Genuine focus on user outcomes, backed by a track record of research-informed design decisions.
• You care: You’re passionate about building exceptional software you can be proud of.

Nice to have

• Experience designing for developer platforms, open-source projects, AI/ML software, enterprise products, or technically challenging SaaS solutions.

Benefits

• Remote-first setup with flexible hours & tech of your choice
• 30 days vacation + extra days for family sick leave
• Competitive salary & stock options for every team member
• Monthly sports & mental health support allowance with Oliva
• Annual learning & development budget
• Monthly team socials & in-person meetups
• Dog-friendly Berlin HQ

About us

Founded in 2018, deepset builds open and enterprise-grade tools that help teams build AI with purpose. From Haystack, our open-source framework, to the deepset AI Platform, we give developers and organizations the building blocks to solve complex, high impact challenges with AI – with full control, transparency, and sovereignty. Backed by GV and Balderton, we’re growing the world’s production AI community and customer base solving challenges too critical to get wrong.

Visit us to learn more: deepset Website | Haystack Website | GitHub | Linkedin | X deepset (Twitter) | X haystack (Twitter)