Product Designer
About Chai Discovery
Chai Discovery builds frontier AI models to design molecules and transform how new cures are found. We are a craft-obsessed team setting out to re-architect drug discovery and save lives.
The Chai founding team brought together leading researchers in this space and top silicon valley operators. Our founders led seminal accomplishments at top AI-for-biology programs and labs, co-invented protein language modelling, built state-of-the-art folding algorithms, and sold AI adopted by top-10 pharma companies. We are backed by top-tier investors, including OpenAI, Thrive Capital, Dimension, Conviction, Lachy Groom, Amplify, and many more.
About the role
As Chai’s first Product Designer, you will wrap cutting-edge AI models into intuitive tools that scientists find indispensable for their work. You’ll own the end-to-end design process, user research, wire-frames, high-fidelity mock-ups, design system, and dashboards that scientist use to query models, visualize molecular structures, and interpret data with our AI in the loop. You’ll guide the product to optimize clarity, consistency, and user delight in a domain that is often cluttered and technical.
After years of foundational R&D, Chai's models are moving beyond protein structure prediction into real-world therapeutic engineering. This is a chance to bring the most advanced AI drug design models to market, working alongside a craft-obsessed team of micro pessimists and macro-optimists.
About you
You are mission-driven and want to define the gold standard for purposeful AI technology. You should have:
Design background:
5+ years designing exceptional products, with a portfolio that shows end-to-end ownership of complex technologies intended for specialized domain experts.
You've designed AI-first products that break the mold and do new things in new ways.
Comfortable building low-fi sketches, polished Figma files, interactive prototypes, and whatever else is needed for the job at hand.
Excited to dive into the domain of molecular biology, drug discovery and AI/ML.
Communication:
Clear communicator who can articulate design decisions and synthesize complex science for cross-functional audiences.
A skillful listener & observer who brings everything from the biggest ideas to the most minute feedback into the building.
Fosters a culture of design thinking and best practices.
Mindset:
Bias for simplicity and minimalism in highly technical domains.
Comfortable iterating quickly and operating in an environment where everything evolves fast.
Nice-to-have experience:
Scientific / biology / bioinformatics domain experience.
Data visualization & data science.
Front-end prototyping skills, and fluency talking code with engineers.
We offer
Frontier technology: work on the technologies that promises to fundamentally change how new therapeutics are created.
World-class people: work with world-renowned leaders in the AI x Biology ecosystem.
Velocity and ownership: we move incredibly fast and liberally distribute ownership, which means continuous learning and career growth opportunities are guaranteed.
Strong culture and mission: we foster a supportive culture that is mission-driven and high-energy.
Highly competitive compensation: we attract the best talent and compensate them accordingly.