Senior Product Design

About Dust

We're creating a new AI operating system that has the potential to change the way companies operate. Our mission at Dust is to transform how work gets done by letting any team and employee shape the exact agents they need to accelerate their work.

With 70%+ weekly active users, people stick with Dust as much as they do with Slack and Notion. We already are a core part of their jobs.

We're at an exciting stage of our journey and growing fast. We're serving great customers like Cursor, Clay, Whatnot, and Persona, and aim to 5x our growth by the end of 2026.

Dust is a Sequoia-backed company with an experienced and determined team of optimists (coming from companies like Stripe and OpenAI) that likes to focus on users, getting great things done by shipping fast, and doesn’t take itself too seriously while doing so.

TLDR

Dust is building the AI operating system that transforms how companies work, already used weekly by 70%+ of our customers' teams. We're looking for a Senior Product Designer who can tackle ambiguous product problems across our platform, working in close partnership with engineering in a highly technical environment where AI capabilities evolve weekly.

This isn't a typical design role. You'll define the end-to-end experience for how humans collaborate with AI agents, shaping a product category that lacks established patterns yet. You need strong discovery and product thinking to frame the right problems, exceptional UI craft to execute elegant solutions, and the communication skills to influence direction across a lean, technical team.

You'll thrive here if you're excited by:

• Defining a new product category: Creating interaction patterns for AI agents that don't exist yet

• High impact, high autonomy: Owning entire product areas from discovery through delivery with massive scope

• Technical depth: Working alongside world-class engineers (ex-Stripe, OpenAI) who value craft and move fast

• Real usage at scale: Seeing your work used daily by customers like Cursor, Clay, Whatnot, and Persona

Our Culture

• Product-First: We're laser-focused on delightful product experiences with existing LLMs, not building foundation models.

• Small, High-Impact Team: Alumni from Stripe, Square, OpenAI. We're keeping the team intentionally small—every person has massive scope and impact.

• Transparency & Collaboration: Our repository is open source. We share information openly because the best ideas emerge from serendipity and open exchange.

• Proactive Problem-Solving: See something broken? Fix it—without waiting for permission. We create solutions, not wait for them.

• Ship to Learn: We move fast and learn from real user feedback. Speed matters.

• Intellectual Humility: Strong convictions, loosely held. We advocate confidently for our ideas while staying open to new perspectives. If new data emerges, we adapt quickly.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end product areas from discovery through delivery. Defining problems, exploring solutions, shipping designs, and measuring impact

• Lead product discovery by working with users, analysing behaviour, and framing ambiguous problems into actionable design opportunities

• Create exceptional UI that balances simplicity with powerful functionality in a complex, AI-driven product

• Partner deeply with engineering to understand technical constraints, explore what's possible, and influence implementation decisions

• Shape product direction by presenting work clearly, building conviction with stakeholders, and advocating for user needs

• Contribute across disciplines when needed. Research, prototyping, brand, or even code, in true early-stage startup fashion

• Raise the bar by providing guidance to less experienced designers with a "no-ego, do-what-it-takes" attitude

Requirements

1. Discovery & Product Thinking

   • You can frame design problems by understanding user needs, business constraints, and technical possibilities

   • You ask sharp questions that reveal insights others miss

   • You know when to explore broadly vs. converge on solutions

2. UI Craft & Execution

   • You create polished, thoughtful interfaces that balance aesthetics with usability

   • Your portfolio shows end-to-end thinking, not just pretty screens

   • You understand systems thinking and how details compound

3. Communication & Influence

   • You can articulate your thinking clearly, explaining the why behind decisions, not just the what

   • You present work confidently and handle feedback constructively

   • You influence without authority in cross-functional settings

Additional Requirements:

• 5+ years of product design experience, with at least 2 years working on complex B2B or technical products

• Comfortable in technical environments: You understand engineering constraints and can work effectively with technical teams

• Generalist mindset: Willing to step outside pure design when needed. Research, prototyping, brand, or light coding

• Startup experience preferred: You've worked in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where you had to define your own scope

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive compensation: €80,000 - €110,000 base salary depending on experience and seniority*

• Significant equity at all levels of seniority in a Sequoia-backed startup

• Relocation support: Up to €10,000 for relocation to Paris, including apartment search and visa assistance

• Health insurance for you and your dependents

• Equipment: New MacBook Pro or Linux machine, monitor, keyboard, etc.

• Beautiful office in the heart of Paris (4 days/week in-office)

• US travel: Opportunity to visit our US operations multiple times per year

• Regular team events and offsite gatherings

*We can go higher for outstanding profiles.

Location

We're prioritizing building our team with an in-person culture at our offices in Paris and San Francisco, because we value the magic that happens when talented people work closely together.

Why Dust

We're not building yet another enterprise SaaS tool. We’re creating an AI OS that will fundamentally change how companies operate. We believe existing AI models are powerful enough to have a tremendous impact on the world (and will keep getting better). The key is building the infrastructure so they have the right context, and building the best interfaces for humans to interact with them.

We have the unique opportunity to explore and shape the way humans interact with machines while building a product we use ourselves every day.

If you're excited about crafting products that reinvent B2B software and want to join a team that combines the best of startup culture with the backing of top-tier investors, we'd love to talk.

👋 Even if you don't check every box in our requirements, we encourage you to apply. We value diverse perspectives and backgrounds, and we're more interested in your potential and passion than a perfect match to our checklist.

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Learn how we think and work.

• Our product constitution: a story about our mission

• Agents at Work - Latent Space podcast with our cofounder, Stanislas Polu (2024)

• LLMs reasoning and agentic capabilities over time - dotAI podcast with Stanislas Polu (2024)