
Product Designer at Outtake (New York, NY)
Outtake· New York, NY·
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About Outtake
Outtake exists to empower and facilitate trust for a digital-first world. Today, impersonation, fraud, AI-driven scams, and identity abuse spread faster than any security team can respond to. So we built something different: an agentic AI platform that proactively detects, monitors, and takes down impersonators, automating protection in hours, not weeks.
Built by ex-Palantir, ex-CTO/founders, and ex-Notion engineers, Outtake is designed for clarity, autonomy, and velocity. Our goal is ambitious: become the trust layer of the modern internet. And we intend to do it with a lean, dense, exceptionally talented team.
Outtake is backed by top-tier investors and operators who believe in our mission and our model. With strong financial footing and a long runway, we prioritize creating an environment where people can do the best work of their careers.
The Role
This is a senior product design role. You will join as Outtake's third product designer, ramping quickly to independently own design for a product area, embedded in a product team, while also leading horizontal initiatives. Outtake is a decentralized, high-ownership org without a traditional PM role. You will work with product engineers and product deployment leads to identify opportunities, challenge assumptions, and decide what's worth building — shaping product direction, not just executing against it. This is a role for solving novel UX challenges. You will design how users manage fleets of autonomous agents, decide when to intervene, and investigate threats across layers of connected data — owning the experience end-to-end, from workflows and information architecture to the interactions and visual details that make it clear and usable.
What You’ll Do
- Work with product engineers and product deployment leads to identify opportunities, challenge assumptions, and decide what's worth building.
- Design how users manage fleets of autonomous agents, decide when to intervene, and investigate threats across layers of connected data.
- Own the experience from workflows and information architecture to the interactions and visual details that make it clear and usable.
- Turn open questions into well-backed user insights and concrete design options and prototypes that align your team.
- Find simpler ways to solve problems, make deliberate tradeoffs, and work closely with engineers to ship and improve the product.
- Build direct relationships with customers, driving design partnerships and establishing regular channels for feedback.
- Run research, test ideas, and gather the qualitative and quantitative evidence needed to make decisions and assess what you ship.
- Create tools and practices that help designers, engineers, and product managers move faster and consistently ship well-designed products, including evolving our design system and expanding the use of AI in how we explore, prototype, and build.
- As the design team grows, we expect this role to take on broader ownership over design culture and horizontal design initiatives at Outtake.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of product design experience, ideally at early-stage or high-growth companies where you've had to own outcomes end-to-end.
- Comfort designing technically complex products, with the ability to get deep into a domain, solve unfamiliar UX problems, and make layered information clear and useful.
- A deeply product-minded, user-driven (not user-led) approach, with genuine excitement to drive product strategy alongside Product Deployment and Product Engineering.
- Resourcefulness and speed, with the judgment to know when to decide carefully and when to ship and iterate.
- Low ego, with the ability to give and receive feedback openly without getting precious about your work.
- Comfort working collaboratively while also navigating ambiguity and owning your work fully without hand-holding.
- Excellent craft across interaction, visual, and motion design.
- Nice to have: experience designing for AI, automation, or agent-based systems.
- Nice to have: experience as an early design hire who helped shape design culture from the ground up.
- Nice to have: active use of AI tools in your design workflow, with ongoing experimentation in how to leverage them.
- Nice to have: experience creating and maintaining a design system.
- Nice to have: a background in cybersecurity, trust & safety, or risk-related products.
Life at Outtake
- Office: For those in NY, we are an in-person team (5 days a week, with flexibility as needed) working out of a stunning waterfront office in Brooklyn. Collaboration, speed, and clarity matter.
- Health: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision for employees.
- Time Away: Flexible PTO. We trust adults to manage energy, not clock time.
- Culture & Team: Annual company retreats and regular in-person events.
Outtake is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive team.
Why work at Outtake
- High-Growth Trajectory: 40 employees with 335.3% yearly headcount growth; 13 active job openings across engineering, sales, marketing, and legal.
- Cutting-Edge Mission: Work on the forefront of AI-driven cybersecurity, building autonomous agents that fight the most advanced digital threats.
- Culture of Ownership and Speed: The company prides itself on “zero queues, zero tickets” and constant next-step pursuit by agents — a philosophy that likely extends to the engineering culture.
- Team Quality: Notable talent sources include Palantir, Meta, Oso, and Google. Strong engineering and product leadership.
- Headquarters & Flexibility: Based in Brooklyn, NY, with a presence in the UK and Singapore. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated but likely flexible given global team.
- Impactful Work: Directly protecting top AI labs, financial institutions, and global brands from nation-state and organized cybercrime operations.