Staff Product Designer - San Francisco Office

Laurel is on a mission to return time. As the leading AI Time platform for professional services firms, we're transforming how organizations capture, analyze, and optimize their most valuable resource: time. Our proprietary machine learning technology automates work time capture ...

Job description

Laurel is on a mission to return time. As the leading AI Time platform for professional services firms, we're transforming how organizations capture, analyze, and optimize their most valuable resource: time. Our proprietary machine learning technology automates work time capture and connects time data to business outcomes, enabling firms to increase profitability, improve client delivery, and make data-driven strategic decisions. We serve many of the world's largest accounting and law firms, including EY, Aprio, Crowell & Moring, and Frost Brown Todd, and process over 1 billion work activities annually that have never been collected and aggregated before Laurel's AI Time platform.

Our team comprises top talent in AI, product development, and engineering—innovative, humble, and forward-thinking professionals committed to redefining productivity in the knowledge economy. We're building solutions that empower workers to deliver twice the value in half the time, giving people more time to be creative and impactful. If you're passionate about transforming how people work and building a lasting company that explores the essence of time itself, we'd love to meet you.

About the role

We're hiring a Staff Product Designer to help shape the future of enterprise software in an AI-native company. Laurel transforms how professional services firms manage time, building powerful tools for operations and admin teams who work with complexity daily. These users deserve systems that are as thoughtful as they are powerful—and you'll be at the center of making that happen.

This role is about bringing clarity to complexity. You'll design systems that feel intuitive, communicate your thinking with confidence and care, and collaborate across teams to move work forward with purpose. You'll translate intricate workflows into experiences that balance usability, elegance, and scalability.

It's an exciting moment to be a designer in AI—new capabilities are transforming enterprise products, and we're eager to explore them with you. If you're energized by big challenges, thrive in thoughtful collaboration, and are ready to help lead Laurel into its next chapter, we'd love to meet you.

What you will do

• Design for enterprise professional services firms: Translate complexity into simplicity, designing for legal, accounting, consulting, and other professional domains with edge cases, long-tail workflows, and advanced configuration needs.

• Lead end-to-end design: From early research to polished UI, own the process—synthesizing needs, creating flows/wireframes, prototyping, validating with users, and supporting implementation.

• Bring clarity to communication: Ground design decisions in user research, design principles, and iteration; clearly and effectively communicate your rationale to stakeholders.

• Collaborate on AI experiences: Work with our AI team to design smart, intuitive interactions that help users feel in control, even without prior AI product experience.

• Build trust across the team: Foster strong relationships, bring energy to ambiguous moments, and treat every cross-functional conversation as a design opportunity.

You will be a great fit if you have:

• 5 years of product design experience in early-stage, fast-moving startups (Series B–F preferred).

• 5 years designing complex B2B enterprise SaaS applications.

• Proven ability to design and ship end-to-end experiences with multiple moving parts, edge cases, and configuration needs.

• Strong UX and UI craft—rooted in research, systems thinking, and crisp interaction design.

• Experience collaborating closely with PMs, engineers, and subject matter experts.

• Comfort with user research, interviews, and feedback loops for professional users.

• High proficiency in Figma, with a portfolio showing strong UX reasoning, IA/taxonomy, B2B workflows, and visual design sensibility (layout, typography, color, imagery).

• Deep interest in understanding professional users and building tools that support how they work.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Kind, curious, and driven, with a collaborative mindset.

• An AI-first mindset; you actively seek out ways to work smarter and faster, leveraging the full spectrum of AI tools to streamline workflows, enhance quality, and push the boundaries of what's possible.

Nice to haves:

• Experience designing for legal, accounting, compliance, or other regulated domains.

• Experience with data-heavy tools or systems.

• Familiarity with or curiosity about AI product design (e.g., conversational UIs, automation, assistive workflows).

• Experience evolving or contributing to design systems.

• Strong storytelling or facilitation skills in collaborative settings.

Flexibility and Logistics:

• Location: This role will be hybrid and based in San Francisco, with at least 3 days per week in the office for in-person collaboration.

• Visa Sponsorship: Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas at this time.

• Compensation: Competitive salary, generous equity, comprehensive medical/dental/vision coverage with covered premiums, 401(k), and additional benefits including wellness/commuter/FSA stipends.

Why join Laurel:

• To date, we've secured significant funding from renowned venture capitalists (Google Ventures, IVP, Anthos, Upfront Ventures), as well as notable individuals like Marc Benioff, Gokul Rajaram, Kevin Weil, and Alexis Ohanian

• A smart, fun, collaborative, and inclusive team

• Great employee benefits, including equity and 401K

• Bi-annual, in-person company off-sites, in unique locations, to grow and share time with the team

• An opportunity to perform at your best while growing, making a meaningful impact on the company's trajectory, and embodying our core values: understanding your "why," dancing in the rain, being your whole self, and sanctifying time

We encourage diverse perspectives and rigorous thinkers who aren't afraid to challenge the status quo. Laurel is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We are not able to support visa sponsorship or relocation assistance.

If you think you'd be a good fit for this role, we encourage you to apply, even if you don't perfectly match all the bullet points in the job description. At Laurel, we strive to create an inclusive culture that encourages people from all walks of life to bring their unique, diverse perspectives to work. Every day, we aim to build an environment that empowers us all to do the best work of our careers, and we can't wait to show you what we have to offer