Product Designer II

Company Overview

Deepgram is bringing the world’s most natural interface, voice, to the technology we use every day. Our speech models and real-time infrastructure power AI systems that keep up with the way people actually speak. More than 5,000 organizations run conversational voice AI on Deepgram in production, including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Cresta, Granola, and Jack in the Box.

The Deepgram Voice Agent Platform brings together speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech, with voice-native foundation models available through cloud APIs or self-hosted and on-premises deployments. Built for accuracy, low latency and cost efficiency, Deepgram makes high-quality voice experiences practical to build and run at scale. More than 650,000 developers have used Deepgram to process more than 200,000 years of audio. Every day, more of the world’s conversations with AI run on our models.

Operating Principles:

Deepgram is a research company that productizes as fast as possible. Four Operating Principles shape how we think, decide, and work together:

1. Compress before you communicate. You think it through first, then lead with the bottom line.

2. Resist entropy. You question what already exists before adding more process or tools.

3. Solve the category. You fix recurring problems at the source, not one case at a time.

4. Work at the frontier. You go after problems no one has solved yet.

We look for people who already work this way, and these principles shape how we grow and evaluate our team.

AI-First by Default

We build AI that millions of people talk to, and we run the company the same way. AI is how we centralize work here, and is core to how we operate.

That means more than using the tools. We expect you to:

• Build, not just use. Design your own workflows and agents, and use AI to remove whole categories of work instead of doing the same work faster.

• Own the output. AI can speed up the work. It doesn’t make anyone less accountable for it. You understand, verify, and stand behind everything you share, including what an agent produces for you.

• Spend the time you get back at the frontier. The capacity AI creates goes toward problems no one has solved yet.

• Keep pace. Models and tools change every month, and so will your work. You adopt what’s new quickly and drop what no longer earns its place.

We judge AI by what it helps you deliver and whether you stand behind the result, not by how often you use it. In interviews, expect to walk us through a workflow you built and where you drew the line between AI and your own judgment.

Note: This is a remote role based in Pacific Time, with a preference for candidates located in San Francisco.

About The Role

Playground and Console are where developers meet Deepgram for the first time. Our redesigns are shipping into development now, and both surfaces have steady, real UI work ahead of them.

We're looking for a Product Designer to own that execution. You'll work alongside our senior designers on feature-level work, take assigned pieces end to end once the direction is set, and float to whichever surface needs design hours that week. The work is well-defined and it matters: it is the first impression of the product for most of the people who use it.

This role is deliberately flexible. You'll build fluency in our design system, our developer audience, and our product faster than you would sitting on one surface for a year, and you'll be the reason senior designers get to stay on the problems only they can solve.

You'll report directly to the Director of Product Design.

Your first chapter: feature-level UI across Playground and Console, running on Cosmos, our design system.

What You’ll Do

• Design and refine UI across the Playground and Console experiences, working from a defined problem and a general solution direction

• Support senior designers on feature work, taking assigned pieces end to end with minimal guidance once the approach is set

• Pick up design work wherever capacity is needed, across product surfaces

• Apply Cosmos consistently, and exercise judgment on the edge cases the system does not answer yet

• Document the why alongside the what, so your decisions are legible to the team and to engineering

• Give regular updates, present your rationale in critique, and give your peers feedback worth having

• Use our AI and design tooling in your day-to-day work, and share what you learn with the team

You’ll Love This Role If You

• Take pride in execution, and care whether the spacing is right

• Want range early, across multiple surfaces and problem types, rather than one narrow lane

• Like designing for developers, and find technical products more interesting than intimidating

• Want to learn from senior designers by working next to them on real work

• Are excited to move at the pace of AI and figure out where these tools genuinely help

It’s Important To Us That You Have

We care more about expertise and leadership than years of experience.

• Strong UI craft, with a portfolio that shows clear visual and interaction judgment

• Experience taking feature-level work end to end, from direction through production handoff

• Fluency working inside a design system, and the judgment to know when a pattern does not fit

• Clear written communication, including the reasoning behind your decisions

• Comfort with technical or abstract product surfaces

• AI tools already in your daily practice, with a view on where they help

It Would Be Great If You Had

• Experience designing for developers or technical users, including APIs, SDKs, documentation, or console workflows

• Exposure to B2B SaaS with both self-serve and enterprise motions

• Prototyping skills beyond static screens

• Experience contributing to a design system rather than only consuming one

• Curiosity about voice, audio, or real-time products

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