Senior Product Designer

Akkio is the AI infrastructure platform that powers and automates workflows across the media ecosystem. Embedded directly in customers' cloud environments, Akkio transforms data into intelligent workflows -  helping teams move faster, make better decisions, and deliver results in minutes instead of days.

We're a fast-growing team building the future of AI-enabled operations, and we're looking for talented people to join us to shape the future of media work.

As a Senior Product Designer at Akkio, you will play an essential role in designing the features our agency partners use to plan, run, and measure campaigns every day. You'll be a strong product thinker and visual designer who can connect user problems to business outcomes, working hand in hand with our product, engineering, and go-to-market teams on some of our most important features.

This is not a role for someone who wants to decorate a finished product. You'll sit between our teams making decisions about how humans and agents collaborate inside workflows that don't have established patterns yet. One week you're designing the way a strategist briefs an agent; the next you're figuring out how an analyst audits what that agent did. The problems are unfamiliar on purpose, and that's the interesting part.

The design team is small enough that your work will define how our partners experience Akkio for years to come.

• You ship to learn. You'd rather get something rough in front of a partner this week than spend a month polishing the wrong thing. You prototype in code when speed matters, and you know the difference between "this needs to be perfect" and "this just needs to teach us something."

• You question the foundations. Most UI primitives (dropdowns, forms, dashboards) were designed for a world where humans did all the clicking. You're excited to rethink them and invent patterns that feel native to how strategists actually collaborate with agents.

• You integrate AI directly into your design process. Claude Code, Cursor, and similar tools are already part of your daily practice. You treat AI as leverage that expands your range as a designer.

• You track the technology. LLMs, agents, and foundation models are moving fast. You follow the releases, understand what's newly possible, and design for the product Akkio will be in six months, not just the one it is today.

• You don't trade craft for speed. The pixels, the copy, the empty states, the error handling: you care about all of it. You've figured out how to keep that care alive inside a team that ships every week.

• Own the full design process. From challenging the brief, through user research with agency partners, to production-ready specs. You're comfortable holding the whole problem in your head, not just the screen in front of you.

• Design for agentic workflows. Akkio is building the infrastructure for agents that autonomously execute campaign work end to end. You'll design the moments where humans and agents hand off, negotiate, and verify. Very few designers have done this before. We'll figure it out together.

• Partner closely with engineering. We ship fast. You'll be building alongside engineers when decisions get made, verifying the user experience in real time. Not handing off and hoping for the best.

• Raise the craft bar. Akkio's UI is the surface that turns complex AI into something a media strategist can trust. The pixels, the copy, the empty states, the error handling. All of it matters, and you'll own that standard.

• Tell the story. You'll present work to leadership, our agency partners, and the broader team. High-stakes reviews should be purposeful and exciting.

• 5+ years of product design experience, with real ownership on complex B2B or enterprise software

• A strong bias to execution coupled with high visual craft standards and attention to detail

• AI-reflexivity: you already use agentic building tools in your daily practice. You see AI as a creative partner and are familiar with front-end frameworks because you have been using AI to design working prototypes.

• You have opinions about how AI changes product design itself, and you're vocal about them

• A portfolio that shows your process, not just polished final frames. We want to see how you scope problems, where you chose speed over polish, and what you'd do differently

• Comfort with ambiguity. Many of the problems we're solving don't have reference patterns yet

Join Akkio and help transform how media companies leverage AI in marketing and advertising. You'll be at the forefront of applying AI technologies to solve real business problems in a rapidly evolving industry, with direct impact on product direction and company growth while working with major clients in the media space.

You'll have a direct impact on product direction and company growth while working with major clients in the media space. This is a rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a well-funded AI startup where your vision directly shapes how thousands of marketing professionals interact with AI technology. Our culture is built around shared wins, so your success drives larger career, financial, and personal growth through competitive compensation, substantial equity grants, flexible work arrangements, comprehensive healthcare benefits, and professional development opportunities.

• Location: Akkio is a remote-first company with no central office location. This position is fully remote, with occasional travel to spend face-to-face time with partners and the team.

• Compensation: Competitive salary range of $160,000 - $200,000 depending on experience, plus equity grants

• Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k); generous PTO policy

• Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the US

Akkio is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, and we believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

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