At Artisan, we’re building real AI employees, not copilots, not assistants, but autonomous teammates.
Our first product, Ava, is an AI BDR. She sources and researches leads, writes in your voice, runs outbound campaigns, manages deliverability infrastructure, and continuously improves her own performance. She doesn’t assist. She owns outcomes.
We’ve raised $35M+ from top investors, went through Y Combinator (W24), and are already at $7M+ ARR with customers like CookUnity, Quora, and SumUp.
We’re now building Ava 2.0, pushing the frontier of what AI employees can do.
The problems we’re solving are new, complex, and high leverage: how humans define, manage, and collaborate with autonomous systems.
If you want to help shape what software becomes in an AI-native world, this is where you do it.
As the second Product Designer at Artisan, you are responsible for outcomes, not just interfaces.
You will define how users interact with AI employees: how they give direction, build trust, understand behavior, and stay in control. This is not traditional SaaS design, it’s designing a new interaction paradigm.
You’ll work closely with product, engineering, and the CEO to identify the right problems, rapidly explore solutions, validate them with customers, and ship experiences that change how teams operate.
Design at Artisan is AI-native and builder-led. Work often starts in an LLM exploring flows, edge cases, and behaviors — before moving into prototypes and production-ready systems.
Location: San Francisco or New York
Team: Product & Design
Reports to: CPTO, Sam Stallings
**Builder mindset
** Everyone owns problems end to end. We value initiative, speed, and decisive action.
**Impact over activity
** We focus on what moves metrics. We cut what doesn’t.
**AI-first
** We use AI not as a feature, but as a core way of building and thinking.
**Customer obsession
** We design from real user problems, not internal assumptions.
**High standards
** We care deeply about craft, in product, design, and communication.
**Low ego, high intensity
** We give direct feedback, move fast, and enjoy building together.
At Artisan, we’re building real AI employees - not copilots, not assistants, but autonomous teammates.
Our first, Ava, is an AI BDR. She finds and researches leads, writes emails in customers’ tone of voice, runs outbound sequences, self-optimizes, and manages email deliverability infrastructure. She learns, adapts, and improves over time - just like a human would.
Human team members use Artisan as their primary working platform, replacing a sprawling stack of sales tools, and have Artisans working alongside them.
We went through Y Combinator (W24) and have raised $35M+ from top investors. We’re at $6M+ ARR, with hundreds of customers including Remote, Quora, and SumUp.
We’re currently working on Ava 2.0, pushing the boundaries of what an AI employee can do. And we're hiring.
Salary
$150,000 - $180,000
Equity
0.05% - 0.12%
Location
San Francisco, CA, US / New York, NY, US
Experience
3+ years
Total raised
$2.3M
Last stage
Pre-seed
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.