Academy UX

Senior / Staff Product Designer @ Superhuman (Contract)

Academy UX  •  $110/hr  •  San Francisco, CA (Onsite)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

Exclusively listed by Academy, the retained search partner selected by Superhuman to manage this hire.
Superhuman is building the future of productivity by designing intelligent tools that help people move faster and do their best work. Our latest initiative, Superhuman Go, is a proactive AI agent designed to assist users inside enterprise and chat environments.
We are looking for a Senior or Staff Product Designer to help shape how Superhuman Go works across these environments. This role will focus on designing polished, end-to-end user and admin experiences that make powerful AI systems trustworthy, intuitive, and deployable at organizational scale.
You will play a key role in defining how people collaborate with AI agents inside chat interfaces and embedded product experiences. This includes shaping workflows where users can make meaningful progress on their work through AI-assisted interactions.
We are looking for designers who care deeply about product craft, AI-native systems, and building tools that genuinely improve how people get work done.

Role Responsibilities

  • Design end-to-end product experiences for Superhuman Go across user and administrative workflows

  • Shape how AI agents interact with users inside chat-based and embedded product environments

  • Translate complex AI capabilities into clear, trustworthy, and intuitive interfaces

  • Design scalable experiences that support enterprise-level deployment and administration

  • Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and leadership to define product direction

  • Create high-quality interaction, visual, and systems design that reflects a strong level of craft

  • Explore new interaction paradigms for AI-native products and agent-based workflows

  • Contribute to product strategy by identifying opportunities where AI can improve user productivity

Contract Details & Logistics

  • Type: Contract / Freelance

  • Contract Duration: 3–4 months (with potential extension)

  • Hours: 30–40 hours per week

  • Compensation: Approximately $90 - $110 / hour (subject to confirmation based on scope and availability)

  • Location: San Francisco / Bay Area is ideal, but open to remote candidates in the PST timezone if physically based in the US and authorized to work without sponsorship (Greencard or US citizen)

  • Office Expectations: Bay Area candidates are expected to work in-office twice per week Preferred office days: Tuesday and Thursday
Academy UX

About Academy UX

A flexible UX agency designed around you. Whether you need a studio team, a few contractors, or help to build your full-time staff, we offer flexible resources customized to you. We use firsthand industry experience to find, vet, and represent world-class digital talent.

We’ve supported ove startups, Fortune 500 companies, agencies, venture studios, VCs, and PEs build world-class teams across:

Product Design

• Product Design

• UX and Experience Design

• UI & Visual Design

• Prototyping

Strategy & Innovation

• Competitive Analysis

• Facilitation

• Product Strategy

• Innovation Strategy

• Growth & GTM Strategy

• Digital Strategy & Transformation

• Proposition Development

• New Ventures

• New Business Models

• Strategic Insight

Research

• Qualitative & Quantitative Research

• Analytics

• Usability Studies

• User Interviews

• Journey Mapping

• Persona Development

• Trends & Foresight

Design Operations

• Partner with design leadership

• Shape and document processes

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams

• Identify key operational issues

• Develop Team KPIs

• Continuous org improvement

UX Writing

• Crafting clear, user-friendly UI copy.

• Maintaining consistent voice and tone.

• Collaborating on design and user testing.

Industry
Creative & Design
Company Size
1-10 employees
Headquarters
Brooklyn
Year Founded
2017
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