--- title: 'Senior Product Designer (AI & Prototyping) at Nace AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-product-designer-ai-prototyping-nace-ai-palo-alto-g533v3r04kqy' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-17' --- # Senior Product Designer (AI & Prototyping) at Nace AI - **Company:** Nace AI - **Location:** Palo Alto, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-16 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-17 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nace.ai/0c7f8251-68f6-4d3c-a82f-92849acf91c8 ## Job description ## About The Role We are dealing with high-stakes financial environments where clarity and precision are paramount. We need a designer who loves untangling complexity. You are defining the architecture of how humans interact with an autonomous AI workforce. You will own the design process from the whiteboard to the final pixel. You will work to define the system architecture, map out intricate user flows, and build a scalable design library. While we value high-fidelity visuals, we value clear thinking and strong information architecture even more. ## What You'll Achieve - Translate complexity into clarity. You will take dense audit requirements and ambiguous AI capabilities and turn them into clear, linear, and logical user flows. - Own the Design System. You will build and maintain a robust component library that ensures consistency and speed as we scale our product surface. - Define Product Architecture. You will work with product and engineering to define the "physics" of the application, how objects relate to one another and how users navigate through large datasets. - Prototype to validate. You will bridge the gap between static design and reality by building prototypes (using AI tools) to test interactions before engineering builds them. - Collaborate on the vision. You will act as a strategic partner, visualizing the future roadmap and helping us make trade-off. ## Skills You'll Need To Bring - 5+ years of product design experience. You have a portfolio showcasing end-to-end projects, ideally in complex B2B, SaaS, or enterprise software. Please include a link to your portfolio, it's the first thing we review, and we're unable to consider applications without one. - Strong Systems Thinking. You can hold the entire product architecture in your head. You understand how a change in one part of the flow impacts the rest of the system. - AI & Prototyping Fluency (Vibe Coding). You are comfortable using modern AI tools (Cursor, Claude, Codex) to rapid-prototype ideas or write basic code to communicate interaction details to engineers. - Visual Craft. You have a sharp eye for typography, spacing, and visual hierarchy. You can create interfaces that feel professional and trustworthy. - Effective Communication. You can articulate the "why" behind your design decisions and align stakeholders around a shared vision. Nice To Haves - Experience designing for data-heavy interfaces (dashboards, spreadsheets, fintech). - Basic frontend knowledge (HTML/CSS/React) that helps you communicate better with developers. - Interest in how LLMs work and how to design for probabilistic outcomes (dealing with AI latency, errors, and confidence levels). Location - Location: Palo Alto, CA. - Collaboration: We work in-person to move fast. We believe the best ideas happen when we are together at the whiteboard. ## About Nace AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Nace AI builds long-horizon reasoning models and AI agents that audit, reconcile, and report on financial and compliance data for enterprises. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed / Series A – $21.5M raised in 2026) - **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Zhanibek Datbayev (CTO/Co-Founder), Ritesh Shrivastava (Co-Founder), Sudha Valluru (COO/Co-Founder), Swathi B (Co-Founder), and others ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Audit, Compliance, Finance, Accounting, Enterprise AI - **Target customers**: B2B enterprise – specifically audit firms, finance departments, compliance teams, and professional services firms - **Mission**: Build long-horizon AI that runs organizations; give professionals their time back by automating high-stakes knowledge work ## Products & Services - **Metamodel**: A specialized small language model (SLM) platform that enterprises can customize with their own policies and knowledge. Used for audit, contract governance, and financial reporting. - **Agentic Accounting**: AI agent that executes end-to-end financial audits, billing audits, and revenue leakage detection by connecting directly to databases. - **Nace Verification Intelligence**: Evidence-based reasoning engine that processes up to 1 million files (PDFs, spreadsheets, databases) to automate SOX 404 reports, contract compliance checks, and due diligence. - **Nace Process Automation**: Automatically maps transaction flows across 10+ disparate databases to visualize and reconcile processes. - **The Macros**: A research preview product that lets power users create custom AI macros for repetitive professional tasks. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $21.5M (May 2026 round led by Walden Catalyst Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, AME Cloud Ventures, AICONIC VENTURES); earlier $5M seed round (April 2025) led by General Catalyst. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst, Walden Catalyst Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, AICONIC VENTURES - **Growth Signals**: - Launched from stealth in March 2025 with Metamodel 1 - Raised $21.5M within 14 months of founding - Operations in 7 countries (US, Kazakhstan, India, Canada, Germany, Ukraine, Georgia) - 2,574 LinkedIn followers (+141% YoY) - Active job postings for senior roles (Product Manager, Audit Consultant, Growth Lead) ## Competitive Advantages - **Metamodel approach**: Enterprises can turn internal policies and employee knowledge into custom, on‑premise AI models, enforcing consistency and accuracy. - **Evidence‑based reasoning**: The system explains exactly where it looked and why – building trust in regulated environments (SOC 2 Type II, AICPA audited infrastructure). - **Small model efficiency**: Uses specialized small language models (SLMs) instead of massive general LLMs, making deployments faster, cheaper, and compliant with data sovereignty requirements. - **End‑to‑end automation**: Covers the entire audit workflow – from raw database ingestion to boardroom‑ready reports – without any manual spreadsheet work. ## Strategic Focus - **Scale the Metamodel platform**: Turn enterprise policies into custom AI agents for every department. - **Expand into adjacent compliance verticals** (tax, due diligence, contract governance). - **Grow the team** across engineering, product, and go‑to‑market roles (currently 39–50 employees, with a heavy technical tilt of ~45%). - **Maintain on‑premises / hybrid cloud deployments** to meet strict regulatory requirements of audit and finance clients. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Fast‑paced research‑first environment assembling a “world‑class team” to solve high‑stakes scaling challenges in AI reasoning. - **Work model**: Hybrid workspace (Palo Alto offices); many roles are in‑office for close collaboration on complex ML and product work. - **Team composition**: Heavy technical concentration (45% of staff are engineers/researchers), with deep domain expertise from ex‑Dropbox, Bloomberg, McKinsey, and AI labs. - **Impact**: Build infrastructure that gives audit, compliance, and finance professionals their time back – directly reduces manual drudgery in multi‑billion‑dollar compliance markets. - **Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but the company emphasizes “autonomy, impact, and working on the hardest AI problems in enterprise.” ## Sources 1. [nace.ai](https://nace.ai/) 2. [nace.ai/careers](https://nace.ai/careers) 3. [LinkedIn – Nace AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nace-ai) 4. [Built In – Nace.AI](https://builtin.com/company/nace-ai) 5. 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