Senior Product Designer

At Podium, we bring AI Employees to local businesses that turn every conversation into revenue. Trusted by 60,000+ businesses across Auto, Home Services, and Aesthetics, Podium captures and converts leads 24/7, driving both new business and repeat customers.

In under 24 months, we crossed $100M in AI Agent ARR, scaling 300% year-over-year. During this time, we’ve deployed 10,000 AI employees to empower real business outcomes for our customers. Podium is building what we believe will be the most impactful AI employee ecosystem for local business.

Podium has been recognized as the Best AI Implementation by Inc. Magazine, highlighted by OpenAI for building revenue-driving AI Agents, and awarded the #1 AI Agent for Business Operations by G2.

Our operating principles guide daily behavior and ensure we hire people who will thrive  you're hungry for growth, aligned to our operating principles, and ready to get to work, you won't find a better place to learn and accelerate your career.

We have an exciting Product Designer opportunity where we’re looking for YC founders! We're building AI Employees that run local businesses - agents that answer phones, book appointments, and close deals autonomously 24/7. Deployed at 100,000+ locations handling thousands of daily customer conversations across auto dealerships, home services companies, and aesthetics and wellness clinics.

You’ll design how humans work alongside AI that's increasingly capable of doing their job. The interaction patterns for this don't exist yet - you'll help create them.

You’ll be a design lead on this team, partnering directly with PM and engineering on some of the hardest UX problems in enterprise AI right now.

* Compensation for this role will be determined based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate's background, experience, skills, and performance throughout the interview process, as well as the level assigned upon completion of that process. This role may also be eligible for equity and benefits, details of which will be provided during the interview process.

* The compensation range listed is reflective of a Senior level Product Designer.

• Make deeply complex systems feel simple to people who don't care how they work
• Set the design standard for the team and raise the craft bar across the entire product surface
• Lead with customers - on-site, running your own research, and using it to drive what we build next
• Drive alignment across PM, engineering, and GTM without needing a defined process to do it

• 6+ years designing complex software that real people use daily under pressure - you've worked on systems where the underlying technology is powerful but the experience has to feel simple
• Track record of defining interaction paradigms, not just executing within them - you've invented patterns that didn't exist before, not just iterated on established ones
• Proven ability to do your own research and bring it back as product direction, not just design artifacts - you talk to customers, watch how they work, and walk out knowing what to build next
• CS degree or equivalent builder experience - you've shipped code, understand how systems work under the hood, and don't need engineering to explain why something is hard
• Prototypes in code as a default, not a last resort - Cursor, Claude Code, or similar are already part of how you work
• Comfortable designing across every surface the product touches - you don't get precious about the medium
• Curious about AI and how it changes the products you build - you don't need to be an expert but you need to care

These aren't requirements — they're the things that would make you dangerous in this role.

• A point of view on AI-human interaction. You've thought about agentic UX — handoffs, trust calibration, what humans need to see when a machine is acting on their behalf. You have opinions about where most AI products get it wrong.
• Experience designing for non-technical operators. You've built for people who use software as a means to an end (front-desk staff,
  dispatchers, clinic managers) not power users who live in…