Lead Intelligent Systems Designer

Lead Intelligent Systems Designer

San Francisco, CA

HP IQ is HP's new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP's global scale, we're building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates.

We're assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP's portfolio. Together, we're developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless.

We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset.

By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we're expanding what's possible for individuals, organizations, and the future of work.

Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work.

About The Role

We're seeking a Lead Designer to join our Intelligent Systems Design team. If you are a Digital Product Designer ready to move beyond traditional interface paradigms, this role offers the opportunity to help shape foundational aspects of our AI-powered experiences, with a particular focus on reimagining how computers remember, understand, and surface information. You'll alternate between deep exploratory work and shipping features that will fundamentally change how people interact with technology.

Working across Ai Pin, Cosmos, and the broader HP product line, you'll tackle challenges like designing AI-powered memory systems and creating interfaces that understand and respond to people's needs. Success in this role requires both creative vision and the technical ability to build and validate ideas using real AI technology. You'll have the space to explore challenging problems while maintaining a clear focus on shipping products that work.

Our goal is to create technology that feels obvious once you experience it. We're looking for designers who can envision a world where computing enhances our human capabilities rather than demanding our attention. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds who are excited to help reshape how humans and computers work together.

What You Might Do

• Design and build functional prototypes of AI-powered interfaces that adapt to human behavior
• Develop new approaches for how computers capture and surface information naturally
• Create new paradigms for information architecture in AI-first systems
• Validate concepts through hands-on prototyping with modern tools and AI technologies
• Collaborate with designers and engineers to bring experimental ideas to production
• Define clear interaction patterns for AI system behavior and feedback loops
• Focus deeply on key areas like memory systems and generative interfaces

Essential Qualifications

• 5+ years of digital product design experience, with a proven track record of shipping products
• Strong prototyping abilities using tools like SwiftUI, Python, Javascript or Origami
• Experience building with AI technologies (particularly LLMs) in products or substantial side projects
• Portfolio demonstrating novel approaches to complex interaction problems
• Ability to balance exploratory design work with practical implementation constraints
• Strong systems thinking skills and ability to design for emergent behaviors
• Enthusiasm for building intuitive, empathetic technology
• Curiosity for learning new technologies and finding unexpected solutions to complex problems

Preferred Skills

• A passion for tinkering and experimentation
• Background in information architecture or knowledge management systems
• Understanding of machine learning concepts and their practical applications in UIs
• Experience designing products that learn from people's behavior
• Interest in cognitive science and how humans process/organize information

We request that you submit a presentation (Keynote, PDF or Figma preferred) of 1-2 examples of your work, along with any passion projects that you feel represent you as a designer. We'd love to learn how you think about AI in the context of product design — from the experience of using an AI-powered product to its look and feel, the craft behind it, and the trade-offs you made to ship.

Salary: $190,000- $270,000

Compensation & Benefits (Full-Time Employees)

The salary range for this role is listed above. Final salary offered is based upon multiple factors including individual job-related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge and skills.

At HP IQ, we offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including;
• 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

Why HP IQ?

HP IQ is HP's new AI innovation lab, building the intelligence to empower humanity—reimagining how we work, create, and connect to shape the future of work.

• Innovative Work Help shape the future of intelligent computing and workplace transformation.
• Autonomy and Agility Work with the speed and focus of a startup, backed by HP's scale.
• Meaningful Impact Build AI-powered solutions that help people and organizations thrive.
• Flexible Work Environment Freedom and flexibility to do your best work.
• Forward-Thinking Culture We learn fast, stay future-focused, and imagine what comes next—together.

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