Senior Product Designer

San Francisco, CA & New York, NY

Who We Are

At Pave, we're building the industry’s leading compensation platform, combining the world's largest real-time compensation dataset with deep expertise in AI and machine learning. Our platform is perfecting the art and science of pay to give 8,500+ companies unparalleled confidence in every compensation decision. Top tier companies like OpenAI, McDonald’s, Instacart, Atlassian, Synopsys, Stripe, Databricks, and Waymo use Pave, transforming every pay decision into a competitive advantage. $190+ billion in total compensation spend is managed in our workflows, and 70% of Forbes AI 50 use Pave to benchmark compensation. The future of pay is real-time & predictive, and we’re making it happen right now. We’ve raised $160M in funding from leading investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Craft Ventures.

The Design Team @ Pave

The design team at Pave is a small, synergy-driven bunch that values a dash of fun and a robust work ethic. We're deeply invested in our customers, making it our mission to master their needs. Our commitment is to create a space where creativity thrives, deep involvement is the norm, and meaningful conversations flow. We thrive on untangling complex problems—of which there are many! If this blend of drive, dedication, fun, and challenge piques your interest, we'd love for you to reach out!

About this role:

Pave is looking for a Senior Product Designer to own the design vision for AI across our platform. You'll be the person who figures out how AI should show up in Pave—how it communicates, how it earns user confidence, and where it will have the most impact. That starts with our conversational AI compensation analyst and extends into agentic workflows that connect the tools compensation teams already rely on today. You'll establish the UX principles that govern how AI behaves at Pave, shape interaction patterns that scale, and have a real seat at the table when it comes to product direction. You'll partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to move from concepts through research and iteration to shipped features. We need someone who can hold two things at once: a long-range vision for what AI-powered compensation work looks like, and the craft to build toward it week by week.

What You'll Bring

• Proven AI product impact: You've shipped LLM-powered experiences to production and can point to real outcomes—whether that's adoption, efficiency, or user trust.
• Systems-level design thinking: You've designed end-to-end AI workflows, not just conversational interfaces. You think about failure states, guardrails, user control, and transparency, and you're energized by that complexity rather than intimidated by it.
• Strategic product influence: You've shaped the UX direction for large scope initiatives,...