Product Designer

Sol is an agentic HR system built for how work is changing. We're replacing the traditional HRIS with an AI-native foundation. We are built for change, designed to scale, and reimagined with AI from the ground up, so HR leaders get a clear view of their workforce instead of a system everyone works around.

Sol was founded by leaders who spent decades building the modern HR category, and is backed by Sutter Hill Ventures and NEA. Our first customers go live in early 2027 and we need you to make them wildly successful.

We're hiring our first Product Designer. This is a rare opportunity to define the experience layer of a platform that spans everyone from an employee who should never have to log into a portal, to a Chief People Officer managing compliance across a dozen countries.

The core premise: great design in an agentic world means the system meets people where they are. For an employee, that's a simple chat that resolves their question without creating a ticket. For an HR admin, it's a configuration experience that handles deep complexity without feeling complicated. For a manager, it's the right signal at the right moment.

And there's a layer on top of all of this: our customers don't just use Sol, they define their own experiences. They configure their own agents, shape workflows to fit how their organization works, and make the platform theirs. That means you're not just designing for end users. You're building the tools that allow customers to shape their own systems. Getting that right, the configuration experience, the guardrails, the language customers work within, is one of the hardest and most interesting challenges in enterprise software.

You will shape all of it.

• Define the design vision and system for Sol — across employee-facing interactions, HR admin workflows, manager experiences, and leadership views

• Design for an agent-first world: think conversationally, contextually, and across surfaces — from simple chat threads to deeply configurable workflows

• Design the platform's builder layer — the experiences that allow customers to define their own agents, flows, and interfaces on top of Sol

• Establish and steward a design system that scales from zero-friction employee moments to the most complex compliance and configuration scenarios

• Exercise strong judgment across surfaces — knowing when an interaction belongs in Sol vs. a place-of-work system, and what the agent should do vs. surface

• Work directly with early customers to understand how HR, managers, finance, and employees experience the system today — and what they'll expect tomorrow

• Partner closely with product and engineering to translate domain complexity into experiences that feel simple and inevitable

• You've designed for enterprise software — real complexity, organizational scale, and diverse user types are table stakes to you, not surprises

• You've worked across a spectrum of users within the same product: end users who want zero friction, administrators who need power, and leaders who want signal over noise

• You've designed platform or builder experiences — tools that allow customers or operators to build, configure, or extend a product for their own users

• You've thought carefully about the relationship between a platform's design system and the experiences built on top of it — what to constrain, what to open up, and how to keep the result coherent

• You've built or contributed to a design system from an early stage — with real opinions on when to standardize and when to allow variation

• You've engaged directly with customers during product development — not just handed research artifacts, but in the room understanding context firsthand

• You've thought seriously about conversational and agentic interfaces — what works, what doesn't, and how to design for interactions that span surfaces and sessions

• You've designed for high-stakes workflows — compliance, approvals, data integrity — where errors have real consequences and trust in the system matters

• Low ego, high craft: you're genuinely open to collaboration and don't need a fully defined brief to do your best work

Bonus if you have:

• Experience in HR tech, workforce management, or adjacent enterprise domains

• Early-stage company experience — you know what it means to design in conditions of high ambiguity with limited resources

• Comfort prototyping — you can move quickly from concept to something tangible

Enterprise tools have historically asked users to adapt to the software. We're flipping that. The system should adapt to the people — and design is how that becomes real.

You'd be joining at the moment the design foundation is being laid, not inheriting someone else's system. The design language, the builder experience, the bar for what "simple" means against real enterprise complexity — those are yours to define. You'd be doing it with a team that has deep domain knowledge and genuine conviction about what AI makes possible in workforce software. Few design roles offer this combination of blank canvas and real stakes.

Sol is an equal opportunity employer. We don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We're committed to building an inclusive workplace and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.