Senior/Staff Product Designer

About the role

Join Sift's Design team as a Senior/Staff Product Designer, where you'll own core user experiences of Sift's platform. This hands-on role involves user research, designing interactions and components, and creating interactive prototypes. You'll work closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Design from problem definition to product launch. The position offers unlimited PTO, top-tier health insurance, and a collaborative work environment. Key missions: Lead user research and design interactions for core user experiences of Sift’s platform.. Own product work end to end, partnering with product management and engineering to define problems and explore solutions.. Prototype using AI tools and contribute to patterns and culture within the design organization. Profile: - You’re someone who thinks in systems but sweats the details, and who is genuinely excited about what hybrid AI design workflows make possible - We’re looking for designers who are genuinely curious; willing to suit up in a spacecraft cleanroom to observe our users. If that resonates with you, we should talk - A bias for action in fast-paced, ambiguous environments — you shape problems as much as you solve them - 6+ years of experience in product design (UI/UX), with a strong portfolio demonstrating interaction design for complex, data-rich applications - Ability to operate across the full design spectrum: high-level UX flows, interaction logic, and pixel-level UI craft - Genuine curiosity about or demonstrated experience with AI-assisted design workflows - Strong cross-functional communication skills; you’re comfortable presenting work, receiving hard feedback, and partnering closely with engineers and PMs - Storytelling skill set to help align team members around your vision and communicate the problems you’re solving - Experience designing data-dense visualization interfaces — dashboards, monitoring tools, charts, or real-time data displays - Background in or exposure to engineering, aerospace, defense, or advanced hardware industries - Familiarity with telemetry, observability, or infrastructure tooling - You’ve worked at an early-stage startup and know what it means to move fast without sacrificing craft