Product Designer

About Elicit

Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help professional researchers and high-stakes decision makers break down hard questions, gather evidence from scientific/academic sources, and reason through uncertainty.

What we're aiming for:

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As a Product Designer at Elicit, you'll take complex problems and design elegant solutions to redefine how researchers make progress against their most pressing questions. We're a cross-functional team that values real-time collaboration and rapid prototyping—much of your day-to-day will be transforming big ideals into simple, elegant solutions.

Research tools are our doorway to understanding the world, where scientists work through systematic reviews, evaluate drug targets, and make high-stakes decisions that affect patient outcomes. On their own, these tools don't help organize the chaos of academic literature, bring focus to multi-month research projects, or unlock new ways to synthesize evidence. We believe AI research assistants can do so much more: it can empower researchers to work faster, think deeper, and stay curious.

That's why we're building Elicit, a tool that helps researchers do their best work.

• Own product design end-to-end. You'll lead projects from problem definition through shipped product—wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity designs, and iteration based on what you learn.

• Prototype and explore rapidly. We value learning through making. You'll explore ideas quickly, share work early, and use hi-fi designs and prototypes to drive alignment and decision-making.

• Collaborate across functions. Design doesn't happen in isolation here and you'll partner daily with engineers and PMs to shape what we build and how we build it.

• Develop deep domain intuition. Great research tools require understanding researcher workflows. You'll build expertise in how researchers and scientists actually work and use that knowledge to inform product direction.

• Elevate team craft. Participate in critiques, contribute to and up-level design systems, and help establish practices that raise quality across everything we ship.

• 4+ years designing complex, information-rich software—ideally products where users are doing real work, not just browsing

• Demonstrated ability to ship from zero to one; you've taken ambiguous problems and delivered polished, functional products

• Strong visual design skills paired with systems thinking—you sweat the details but also see how pieces connect

• Comfort with ambiguity and speed; you design and prototype to learn and advance decisions

• Experience with Figma and designing with LLMs on a canvas or in code

• Clear communication and structured thinking—you can explain your rationale, receive feedback openly, and help teams converge on decisions

• Based in North American time zones. We're primarily Bay Area and do quarterly team retreats in person.

Your first month:

• You'll complete your first multi-issue project

  • Tackle a significant data pipeline optimization or enhancement project.

  • Collaborate with the team to implement improvements in our academic paper processing workflow.

• You're actively improving the team

  • Contribute to regular team meetings and hack days, sharing insights from your data engineering expertise.

  • Add documentation or diagrams explaining our data pipeline architecture and best practices.

  • Suggest improvements to our data processing and storage methodologies.

Your first quarter:

• You're flying solo

  • Independently implement significant enhancements to our data pipeline, improving…