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# Founding Product Designer at Effective AI

- **Company:** Effective AI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/effective-ai/fd2994fe-6150-41ce-a25d-f055efef86da

## Job description

Founding Product Designer

## About Us

Effective AI is building the operating system for insurance. Insurance teams work across market data, product rules, regulatory filings, pricing models, and disconnected systems. Effective AI brings that work into one source-backed operating view. Our agents help actuarial, product, and underwriting teams research, analyze, draft, and execute, while experts retain judgment, review, and accountability. We are a 20-person team backed by Lightspeed and Valor, with a product in production and paying customers. Our mission is to help experts do more of the work people depend on. Here’s what our culture looks like: [Life at Effective AI](https://effectiveai.app/api/v1/share/life-at-effective-ai-3e3821f4)

## What You'll Do

As our Founding Product Designer, you will define how non-engineers work with AI agents across complex, high-stakes insurance workflows. This is not a screen-by-screen execution role. You will shape the systems, guardrails, and interaction patterns that make powerful AI clear, controllable, and trustworthy, moving from early product thinking through shipped details with customers, insurance experts, founders, and engineers. More specifically, you will:

- Turn dense enterprise workflows and complex systems into simple, coherent product experiences by learning directly from customers and insurance experts.
- Design agent experiences that make the system’s plan, progress, evidence, uncertainty, approvals, and recovery clear, and give users the right moments to steer or step in.
- Prototype and ship quickly with engineering, using Figma and modern AI building tools to move from rough ideas to polished, implemented interactions.
- Create reusable interaction patterns and lightweight design-system foundations, including components engineers can use independently, so design quality scales without becoming a bottleneck.

## Who You Are

We’re looking for an ambitious product designer with exceptional taste, strong systems thinking, and the range to move quickly from ambiguity to a clear, well-crafted product.

- You have 3+ years of relevant product design experience and are ready to operate with senior-level ownership. A Senior title is not required.
- Your portfolio shows excellent interaction and visual craft, clear personal contribution, and a track record of turning complex systems or multi-step workflows into simple experiences.
- You have hands-on experience designing or building with AI agents and are comfortable using modern AI tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent. Shipped work is welcome; serious prototypes, side projects, research, or open-source work also count.
- You move fast without lowering the craft bar, reason from first principles, and can distinguish a behavior or systems problem from a styling problem.
- You collaborate closely with engineering and product, explain decisions clearly, and create patterns that help others make good design decisions without needing you to own every screen.

Helpful, not required

- Experience designing for enterprise or business users, especially in regulated, analytical, or document-heavy domains.
- Comfort with HTML/CSS and contributing to a shared component system such as Storybook.

## Role Details

- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work Model: Hybrid, 3 days in office
- Compensation: The estimated base salary range for this role is $160,000–$240,000, depending on experience and skill set. In addition to base salary, we offer competitive equity and benefits. Final compensation will be determined based on experience, and qualifications.

Benefits:

- Flexible PTO
- Highly competitive salary & meaningful equity
- Best-in-class medical, dental & vision insurance
- 401k with up to a 4% company match
- $1,200 annual learning and development stipend
- Catered lunches
- Commuter benefits for Bay Area employees
- Home office stipend for remote employees
- Mentorship from experienced founders and access to an elite investor network
- Team building events & happy hours
- Company Offsites

Effective AI is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

## About Effective AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Effective AI builds an AI agent platform that serves as the operating system for insurance teams, enabling faster product launches, market intelligence, and governed workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Abhay Mitra (Co-founder & CEO), Arijit Banerjee (Co-founder), Kunal Singhal (Co-founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Insurance technology (InsurTech), enterprise AI
- **Target customers**: B2B Enterprise – insurance carriers (actuarial, underwriting, product, claims, operations teams)
- **Mission / purpose statement**: “The operating system for insurance” – bringing code-first autonomy to a $6 trillion industry still running on PDFs and spreadsheets.

## Products & Services
- **AI Teammate Platform**: A multi-agent system that handles complex knowledge work across insurance workflows. Includes modules for competitive intelligence, product execution (state-ready filings, rules, manuals), underwriting guidance, actuarial analysis, and governance controls.
- **Competitive Intelligence Module**: Real-time monitoring of competitor rate changes, loss trends, and rate adequacy dashboards.
- **Enterprise Integrations & Security**: SOC 2 Type II, SSO/SAML, RBAC, audit logs, SIEM export, private connectivity, configurable data retention – carrier-ready integrations with filing, policy admin, rating, and document systems.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Funding**: Raised **$10 million in seed funding** from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Valor Equity Partners (as of early 2026).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $10 M (private; revenue not publicly disclosed).
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Lightspeed Ventures, Valor Equity Partners.
- **Growth Signals**: Team of ~16 employees (LinkedIn), with active hiring for founding engineers and enterprise sales. Claims “fastest-growing insurers” as customers. Launched in 2025 and already has a live platform with case studies and blog posts discussing multi-agent runtime and verification-first AI.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertical‑first approach**: Designed specifically for the P&C insurance industry, solving workflow problems (PDFs, spreadsheets) with domain‑adapted AI.
- **Enterprise‑grade security**: SOC 2 Type II, private connectivity, no model training on customer data – critical for regulated carriers.
- **Multi‑agent coordination & long‑context reasoning**: Patented techniques (formal verification, RL agent loops) that handle the complexity of insurance rate filings and underwriting decisions.
- **Founding team with insurance operator experience**: Built by former insurance professionals (implied by “built by insurance operators”).

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Deepen agent capabilities for actuarial, underwriting, and product teams; broaden to claims and operations.
- **Go‑to‑market**: Scale enterprise sales (hiring Account Executive) and build reference customers among top insurers.
- **Talent acquisition**: Hire founding ML engineers to solve frontier challenges in agentic AI, tool use, and reliable reasoning for insurance.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, high‑impact founding team; in‑person collaboration 5 days a week in San Francisco (SoMa).
- **Benefits**: Highly competitive salary + equity, flexible PTO, catered lunches, best‑in‑class medical/dental/vision, 401k with up to 4% match, monthly team events.
- **Engineering focus**: Work on cutting‑edge agentic AI (reinforcement learning, multi‑agent coordination, long‑horizon reasoning) with mentorship from experienced founders and access to elite VC network.
- **Growth**: As an early employee, you’ll have massive ownership and shape product, culture, and technical direction.

## Sources
1. [effectiveailabs.com](https://effectiveailabs.com/) – Product overview, integrations, security, customer claims
2. [linkedin.com/company/effective-ai-labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/effective-ai-labs) – Employee count, founders, headquarters, industry, funding
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/effective-ai](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/effective-ai) – Job listings, benefits, company description
4. [pingojo.com](https://www.pingojo.com/company/httpseffectiveailabscom/) – Founding ML Engineer job details (salary range, benefits, work model)
5. [effectiveailabs.com/blog](https://effectiveailabs.com/blog) – Blog posts on multi-agent runtime and verification-first AI

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