Demand.io is reshaping the way people shop. Through our AI-driven social shopping services like SimplyCodes and the upcoming Product.ai, we help millions of consumers shop smarter, save money, and connect with their passions.
As a self-funded, profitable startup playing at the intersection of AI and e-commerce, we’re seeing rapid growth and hiring actively to build out our AI, engineering, data science, growth, and product teams. We’re a small, exclusive team of high performing professionals, hiring selectively, and offering outsized compensation through an industry-leading profit sharing system.
As a technology accelerator that's been in business for over a decade, we ideate, build, and launch innovative AI services for the e-commerce sector. We partner with over 60,000 retailers, driving over $1 billion in sales annually through our network of shopping products. Our model is to experiment at the bleeding edge of technology, be unafraid to fail fast, and invest aggressively where we see traction.
The opportunity
Demand.io offers a unique career opportunity in Product Design — we’re both an established e-commerce company with over a decades’ worth of experience and track record of sustainable growth, but we’re also an accelerator focused on next-generation technologies and 0-1 innovation. You’ll be working with competent industry veterans (some of the smartest, most passionate people you’ll ever work with) to build exciting, completely new AI-driven products that will impact the lives of millions of people.
What we’re looking for
We’re seeking a Staff Product Designer to playing a lead role in designing, validating, and shipping our core consumer e-commerce services, including SimplyCodes and Product.ai. In this role, you’ll work closely with our design team, product and growth teams, and AI and engineering teams to and run iterative, research- and data-driven design and prototyping processes to deliver incredibly innovative and useful product experiences to millions of shoppers.
What you’ll do
- Play a lead role in designing, validating, and delivering a delightful user experience for SimplyCodes, a UGC-centered shopping app focused on delivering accurate coupons across all online shopping touch points including mobile, web, and AI chat.
- Co-lead user research to build insights into shopper needs, motivations, and problems across the e-commerce user journey.
- Lead growth-oriented design executions, utilizing behavioral data and experimentation to achieve specific metric benchmarks.
- Design gamification-centric product experiences, engaging players through a deep understanding of player motivations, gamified incentives, and crowdsourced content principles.
- Run lean, fast, iterative design concepting and prototyping processes, continuously testing with users, conducting competitive research, deriving insights from data, and incorporating the latest trends and capabilities offered within rapidly developing mobile, wearable, and AI industries.
- Help to develop new-to-industry user interaction patterns combining conversational, visual, interactive, and spatial enabling shoppers to navigate the shopping journey in completely new ways enabled by AI and spatial computing.
- Stay abreast of the latest generative AI trends, new products, and platform capabilities, ensuring competitive insights and capabilities are factored into our product strategy.
About you
- You’re a true end-to-end product designer, combining technical skill in both UX + visual design with the strategy and data-driven capabilities of a product manager.
- You have direct experience with (or a strong interest in) designing and shipping generative AI products involving conversational interfaces, reinforcement learning mechanisms, and close collaboration with machine learning and data science teams.
- Bonus if you’ve designed UGC-driven products involving user inputs, crowdsourcing, community governance and gamification mechanisms.
- You have experience running product design for complex products spanning multiple surfaces (desktop, mobile, notification, chat) with complicated flows, multiple scenarios and edge cases.
- Bonus if you have AR / VR / spatial computing UX design experience.
About the job
- Starting total cash compensation: $200K - $300K DOE.
- Stock options: 0.20% to 0.40% initial grant
- Eligibility for our Equity Partners program, a profit-sharing system tied to individual and company performance.
- Our Santa Monica HQ is a newly completed state-of-the-art technology development facility offering prodigious open space, open work setup, large recreation & break room with free food, silence / focus facilities, podcasting studio, and sweeping views from the ocean to downtown.
- Full access to premium AI services, including ChatGPT Plus, Gemini Advanced, Perplexity Pro, GitHub Copilot, Midjourney, Anthropic Claude, Notion, and more.
- Full coverage of your home internet and mobile phone plans (Equity Partners program benefit),
- All meals provided free daily, fully stocked kitchen with free food, snacks, coffee and drinks.
- Regular team-building events, dinners and activities.
- Premium health coverage including comprehensive PPO and HMO options, along with full dental and vision coverage, paid 100% for all your dependents.
- Sponsorship for all ongoing education, courses, books, and certifications.
- 401K program.
- Empowered, flexible, high trust work culture. Unlimited PTO.
- Relocation assistance available.
Learn more about us at https://demand.io.
