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Staff Product Designer, AI
Job Location:
Job Location:
Los Angeles, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 200000 - 230000
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Posted:
3 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
30 September 2026
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Role Overview
Linktree is evolving from a link-in-bio product into an intelligent trusted control center one that doesnt just hold a creators digital presence together but actively helps them grow it. That means moving from a product that responds to what creators do to one that observes whats working reasons about what could be better and increasingly takes action on their behalf.
Were hiring a Staff Product Designer AI to lead the design of that agentic experience end-to-end. Not as a chatbot bolted onto a product but as intelligence woven into the fabric of how Linktree works showing up in the right moment in the right form with the right amount of control in the creators hands.
This role sits at the intersection of UX systems product design and AI-enabled behaviour. Youll define how intelligence shows up inside Linktree how opportunities surface how actions are proposed or executed and how we earn and maintain trust through clear controls feedback loops and honest system behaviour. Its one of the most consequential design roles at Linktree right now and it will directly shape the core UX strategy for the rest of 2026 and beyond.
Why This Role Matters
At Linktree we have something most companies building in this space dont: a clear real-world job to be done for millions of creators and businesses who want to grow their presence but dont have the time or expertise to do it alone. The opportunity is to make Linktree feel less like a tool you operate and more like a system that works with you one that earns autonomy over time by being useful transparent and safe. The design of agentic experiences is genuinely unsolved and getting it right requires deep design thinking not just technical integration.
As Staff Product Designer AI youll own the question of what that experience actually feels like. And then youll build it.
What Youll Own
This role is accountable for the full observe reason decide act measure improve loop across the product. That means designing:
- Agentic surfaces how opportunities emerge how Linktree explains its reasoning and how creators understand whats about to happen before it does.
- Action execution UX previews confirmations execution states undo and rollback activity logs and failure handling that feels honest rather than apologetic.
- Autopilot controls and guardrails user permissions sensitivity settings act vs. ask thresholds and the controls that let creators calibrate how much autonomy they hand to the system.
- AI UX system primitives the reusable patterns and components that power agent recommendations tool execution states trust signals and confidence cues across every team building AI features.
- Measurement and learning loops how impact is shown how the system demonstrates its getting better and how creators correct it when its wrong.
What Youll Do
- Lead design for an embedded agentic experience that is proactive quietly powerful and never overwhelming grounded in user research and data at every stage.
- Partner closely with ML data and engineering to translate model capability into human-understandable actionable experiences that work in the messy real world.
- Define the UX contract for tool-calling: what actions exist what inputs they require what constraints and permissions apply and what the safe defaults are.
- Create experience maps and flows that scale gracefully from guided assisted autonomous behaviour as creator trust develops over time.
- Drive alignment across Product Engineering Data and Trust on the principles and patterns that make agentic behaviour coherent and safe across the product.
- Establish the success metrics and qualitative signals adoption trust undo rates satisfaction measured impact that will guide iteration and give the team honest feedback on whats working.
- Influence the AI product roadmap directly providing design oversight that ensures coherent AI experiences across creation insights monetisation and trust surfaces.
- Raise the bar for AI design craft across the broader design team through reviews critiques pattern documentation and knowledge-sharing that helps every designer working on intelligence-adjacent features do it better.
What Were Looking For
- 8 years of product design experience including significant ownership of complex cross-functional systems at scale.
- Proven ability to design in systems not just screens patterns primitives frameworks and scalable UX architecture that other teams can build on.
- Strong judgment on trust safety and control: permissions guardrails reversibility transparency and the edge cases that reveal whether a system is actually well-designed or just demo-ready.
- Comfort designing across ambiguity you can take a fuzzy AI capability and turn it into a clear user value proposition and coherent product behaviour without waiting for perfect specifications.
- Deep fluency in modern AI product design you understand how models work well enough to design with their grain not against it and you have opinions about what separates good AI UX from the merely functional.
- Expert-level proficiency in modern design and AI prototyping tools you use AI actively in your own design workflow not just as a subject matter and you have strong judgment on when a working prototype a high-fidelity mock-up or a lightweight flow is the right tool to move a conversation forward.
- A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional craft and end-to-end thinking problem framing flows UI modern prototypes iteration and outcomes with at least some work that shows how youve handled the unique design challenges of systems that act on users behalf.
- Strong collaboration with engineering and ML/data partners with the ability to influence product strategy as well as execution quality.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills you can present your thinking clearly to engineers PMs and senior leadership and you can make the case for why design decisions in AI systems are high-stakes not cosmetic.
Bonus Points
- Experience designing for AI-driven systems recommendations automation decision support personalisation or ranking where the product is making consequential decisions on a users behalf.
- Experience with experimentation platforms evaluation design and measuring causal impact of AI interventions.
- Familiarity with platform and tooling concepts (APIs internal tools agent-callable actions) and how they map to UX states and design contracts.
- Experience working on creator tools SMB platforms or growth and optimisation surfaces.
Why Youll Love It Here
- Work on one of the most genuinely interesting design problems in consumer AI not a chatbot but an embedded agentic experience that has to earn trust through every interaction.
- Join a product that 70 million creators already rely on with the reach to make great AI design matter at real scale.
- Be part of a collaborative inclusive culture that values diversity and innovation.
- Shape Linktrees AI product strategy directly this is a role with genuine influence over what we build and how we build it.
- Enjoy competitive compensation flexible work arrangements and robust professional development opportunities.
Linktree is committed to providing a competitive compensation package. Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $200000-$230000 in the San Francisco Bay or Los Angeles area. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate expertise the scope of role and level and may vary from the amounts listed above.
P.S. If you dont tick every box in this listing please dont rule yourself out. We take pride in inclusion and hiring incredible human beings with great potential over ticking boxes so if this role resonates with you hit that apply button!
Our Story
Were on a mission to empower anyone to curate grow and monetize their digital universe. We created the link in bio category and were just getting started. From creators artists and entrepreneurs to global brands were redefining how people connect with their communities showcase their content and promote products all in one link.
Today a community of 70 million use Linktree including icons like Adidas TikTok the UN Environmental Program The NFL Manchester United World Central Kitchen Sabrina Carpenter Olivia Rodrigo and Selena Gomez. With 48000 new accounts created every day Linktree is the fastest-growing leader in our space.
Weve teamed up with some of the worlds biggest platforms including TikTok Snap YouTube GoFundMe Spotify Google Stripe Reddit Laylo and Kajabi to unify Linkers digital spaces and we partner with retail brands Amazon Nike Nordstrom Target Sephora Vuori and more to share products they love.
Were a tight-knit passionate team building best-in-class tools that make online presence simple powerful and yours. If youre excited by the idea of shaping a new category setting the standard and making space for everyone to be seen and succeed wed love to meet you.
Where and How We Work
Were a global diverse team spread across continents with offices in London Los Angeles Melbourne and San Francisco. We work together flexibly and you can choose the setup that works best for you: fully remote or a hybrid mix of office and home.
We offer autonomy in how you structure your days and weeks. While were mindful of time zones and occasionally collaborate outside the typical 95 we lean into async work to keep things flowing. Our culture is family-friendly and Zoom-casual where kids pets and delivery drivers are welcome.
How well help you thrive
Our approach to benefits considers the whole person and the unique contributions they bring to Linktree. We want the experience at Linktree to be one that enables people to truly thrive so we can Go Further Together (one of our values). Some ways we support you:
- An annual wellbeing allowance to use on things like (but not limited to) fitness memberships development courses childcare travel charitable donations pet insurance home office set-up - the choice is yours!
- 100% coverage (and 80% for your dependents) of your monthly premiums for medical dental vision disability and life insurance for US-based employees.
- Employer contribution towards your retirement.
- Generous time off for vacation holidays parental leave volunteer time and other categories.
- Employee stock option program - we want each and every employee to share in the companys success.
At Linktree we believe in promoting a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds talents and experiences and were proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are creating an inclusive workplace where every individual feels valued respected and has equal opportunities to thrive. We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive environment where all team members have a sense of belonging. Linktree welcomes all people regardless of sex gender identity race ethnicity disability pregnancy age or other lived experience. If you require accommodations to fully participate in our opportunities please dont hesitate to reach us at your needs are important to us.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
