Principal Product Designer, SeekrGuard

About the Opportunity:  

Seekr builds explainable AI for enterprises, government, and regulated industries. We're hiring a Principal Product Designer to take on the least-defined problems across our AI platform, designing for a wide range of users: AI/ML engineers, data scientists, domain experts, and enterprise stakeholders. You'll work within a small, focused design team in a fast-moving product org, partnering directly with Product and Engineering. You'll operate with a high degree of autonomy, earning influence through the quality of your judgment and your work, and you'll raise the design bar for the team through the standards your own work sets.

Duties and Responsibilities

• End-to-end product ownership: Own discovery, design, delivery, and iteration across major product areas, not just execution handoffs
• Ambiguous problem ownership: Take on the surfaces where the direction is least defined, establishing the approach and the frameworks the rest of the work builds on
• Systems-level UX: Define information architecture, interaction patterns, and reusable UX frameworks for complex, multi-step enterprise AI workflows
• User discovery and research: Lead discovery with technical and non-technical users; synthesize findings into UX strategy, interaction models, and validated product direction
• AI-accelerated design execution: Use AI tools to compress ideation and prototyping loops, getting from concept to working, interactive prototypes faster while exercising strong design judgment
• Design system stewardship: Contribute to and extend the Seekr design system in Figma, supporting new platform capabilities and enterprise use cases
• Craft leadership: Raise design quality across the team through review, critique, and mentorship, setting the standard other work calibrates to
• Cross-functional influence: Earn a strong voice in product direction through the quality of your work, shaping roadmap tradeoffs and technical constraints alongside Product and Engineering while producing the documentation and prototypes that enable high-quality implementation

Required Qualifications: 

• 8 to 12+ years of product design experience on complex SaaS or technical platform products
• Track record of taking on undefined problems and establishing direction where none existed, rather than optimizing within an existing one
• Demonstrated systems-level design skills: complex workflows, information architecture, and scalable interaction frameworks
• Experience raising craft quality across a team through review, critique, and mentorship
• Advanced proficiency in Figma, including working within and evolving a shared design system
• Fluent, active use of AI-assisted design and prototyping tools in your current workflow, not experimental exposure
• Strong product judgment; comfortable operating autonomously in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with minimal direction
• Experience leading discovery research such as defining personas, mapping workflows, and validating solutions through usability testing
• Proven track record collaborating with Engineering through implementation, including detailed specs and navigating technical constraints
• Portfolio showing end-to-end ownership of major product areas, ideally in 0-to-1 or early-stage work, with clear problem-solving depth and craft quality
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to articulate design decisions and tradeoffs to both technical and executive stakeholders
• Reside near Austin, TX or Reston, VA and able to work 3 days per week in office

Preferred / differentiating skills (strong plus)

• Experience designing for technical users such as AI/ML engineers, developers, data scientists, or MLOps practitioners
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts: model evaluation and benchmarking, bias and reliability testing, LLMs, RAG, agents, or MLOps platforms
• Experience designing platform surfaces such as governance, compliance, access controls, administration, or multi-tenant systems
• Experience with data visualization, analytics dashboards, or real-time monitoring interfaces
• Background in high-growth startups or early-stage platform products

About the Company:  

Company Benefits:

• Meaningful Mission & Impact - Work with a deeply talented, collaborative team solving some of the toughest AI challenges that matter. 
• Equity Ownership – RSUs that let you share directly in Seekr’s long‑term success and growth.
• Time Off That Respects Real Life – Unlimited PTO plus 14 paid company holidays to truly recharge. 
• Work Your Way – A flexible hybrid work environment with offices in Reston, VA and Austin, TX.
• Competitive Total Rewards – A role‑appropriate compensation structure that supports long‑term growth, including base salary, bonuses, or commission plans depending on role.
• 401(k) with Company Match – Build your future with a retirement plan that includes employer matching. 
• Comprehensive Health & Wellness – Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage starting day one—for you and your family.  
• Parental Leave – Paid parental leave to support employees as they welcome a new child through birth, adoption, or foster placement.

Important Notice: 
 
To conform to U.S. Government international trade regulations, applicant must be a U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Commerce.
 
Seekr is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.