Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer

San Francisco, CA & New York, NY

About Pave

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, influencing roadmap priorities and sequencing decisions in partnership with product and engineering leaders.
• Builder mindset: You prototype, ship, and iterate. You want to see your work in customers' hands, and you take personal ownership of the outcome.
• Collaborative and constructive: You make the people around you better. You contribute to a healthy team dynamic and uplift those around you. You give and receive feedback, build strong cross-functional relationships, and genuinely care about the health of the team, not just the work.

Compensation, It's What We Do.

At Pave, we believe compensation should be as thoughtful as the people we hire. Your total rewards package includes meaningful equity, best-in-class medical, dental, and vision coverage, unlimited PTO, and region-specific benefits designed around your life — not just your role. Your level and compensation are determined by your experience and how you show up throughout the interview process. We're always happy to walk you through how we think about leveling — just ask.

Targeted cash compensation for this role: P3: $148,000 - $175,000 P4: $175,000 - $205,000 P5: $205,000 - $240,000

Benefits @ Pave

What we offer:

• Your Health, Fully Covered: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family, with a range of options designed to meet you where you are.
• Time That's Actually Yours: Flexible PTO and the freedom to work from anywhere in the world for up to a month — because life doesn't pause, and neither should you.
• Fuel for the Work: Lunch and dinner stipends plus fully stocked kitchens, so you can stay energized without thinking twice about it.
• Room to Keep Growing: A quarterly education stipend to invest in the skills and knowledge that matter most to you.
• Support When It Matters Most: Robust parental leave so you can be fully present for the moments that count.
• Getting Here, Made Easier: A commuter stipend to support the in-person collaboration that makes great work happen.

Life @ Pave

Founded in 2019 with a clear purpose and a team that has never wavered from it, Pave has grown into a global force in compensation management — giving thousands of companies the tools to take control, build confidence, and earn credibility in every pay decision they make. And we're just getting started. Headquartered in San Francisco's Financial District, with regional hubs in New York City's Flatiron District, Salt Lake City, Kraków (Poland), and the United Kingdom — wherever you're based, you'll find the same thing: people who genuinely care about the work, each other, and the customers that rely on Pave.

We run a hybrid culture that brings teams together in person 3 to 4 days a week — and every Friday, the whole company gathers for our Team Sync: breakfast, new hire welcomes, product updates, fireside chats, and yes, the occasional Kahoot. It's one of the things people notice when they join us — that we truly enjoy spending time together.

Our culture is shaped by five values we live every day:

• Be Intellectually Honest — Truth over comfort. We face reality clearly and speak directly, even when it's hard.
• Play to Win — We're not here to participate. We're here to be the #1 compensation platform in the world, and we act like it.
• Uphold the Pave Platinum Standard — We hold ourselves to the highest bar — for our customers, our data, and each other.
• One Team — We win and lose together. Titles don't drive decisions here — shared goals do.
• Hug of Jawn — Hard to define, impossible to miss. Ask your recruiter.

Our Vision: Unlock a labor market built on trust.

Our Mission: Build confidence in every compensation decision.

We build software that transforms how companies pay their people — and we believe the team behind that software deserves the same thoughtfulness. If you're ready to help shape the future of compensation alongside people who are smart, humble, and genuinely motivated by the problem we're solving, we'd love to meet you.

Still deliberating? Just apply! We're always excited to meet people who are eager to contribute.