Digital Foundry — Tiburon, California
Digital Foundry has spent 30 years building digital products that get put into production, not slide decks that get shelved. We partner with Fortune 500 and mission-critical organizations to plan, design, and build custom software: mobile apps, responsive platforms, connected hardware, IoT, and increasingly the AI systems layered on top of all of it. Our work runs in regulated, high-stakes environments where the product has to be trustworthy, usable, and built to last.
That last part is why this role exists. Designing software that uses AI is no longer the same job as designing software. The interface now has to account for outputs that vary, that can be confidently wrong, and that a human may need to review or override before anything happens. We are looking for a strong product designer who wants to do that work, learning the AI-specific craft alongside our senior designers and engineers.
This is a hands-on design role, not a strategy seat. You will own real design work on real client projects, contribute to how we solve AI product problems, and grow into one of the people who can lead that work over time. If you have solid product design fundamentals and you are genuinely hungry to design for where the field is going, this is a place to do it on production systems that matter.
Real interfaces on real products. You will take features and flows from research and concept through to refined, build-ready design across web and mobile, working to the standards and patterns our senior designers set.
The human side of AI features. You will help design how people interpret and trust what AI produces: showing confidence and uncertainty, surfacing sources, making error states clear, and giving users a path to verify or reject output. You will work from approaches our senior team establishes and contribute your own ideas as you grow into the problem space.
Human-in-the-loop touchpoints. Much of our work involves AI that takes steps on a user's behalf. You will help design the moments where a person stays in control: review steps, approval points, and clear off-ramps when something looks wrong. You will do this in close collaboration with senior design and engineering.
Within real-world constraints. Many of our products live in regulated or mission-critical settings, which means accessibility, clarity, and well-designed failure cases are part of the job from the first sketch, not a final-pass checklist.
Roughly 3 to 5 years of product or UX design experience is a good fit, though we care more about the quality of your work and how you think than your exact tenure.
We expect you to use AI in your own practice, not just design for it. Rapid prototyping, generating and stress-testing variations, drafting copy, and speeding up research synthesis are part of how design moves here. Just as important is the judgment to tell when AI output is actually good enough to ship, which is itself a design skill we value.
Mid-level designers who join us learn the part of the craft most of the industry hasn't figured out yet: designing trustworthy, usable AI products in serious environments. You will work directly alongside senior designers and engineers, your work will ship, and the path here runs toward leading AI design work as you develop. The frameworks for this kind of design are still being written, and we want people who will eventually help write them.
Compensation at Digital Foundry varies based on location, role, skill, and experience. In compliance with California law, Digital Foundry provides a reasonable target base salary range of$85,000 – $115,000.Performance bonuses and benefits are offered in addition to base salary.
Our office is in Tiburon, CA, a short drive or ferry ride from San Francisco. We are looking for a local candidate who can work primarily from the office, with occasional approved remote work.
Digital Foundry, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer that is dedicated to a policy of non discrimination in employment and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, mental or physical handicap, disability, or veteran status.
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