parallel

San Francisco, Palo Alto

Product Designer

FULL TIME ON-SITE MID

Posted about 1 year ago

Quick Summary

Role Overview

As the first design hire, you will be instrumental in shaping and building the consumer showcase for Parallel's powerful AI APIs. You will also create a delightful developer playground. Additionally, you will extend and evolve the brand across all product and marketing surfaces, ensuring cohesive and intentional touchpoints.

Key Responsibilities

Shape and build the best consumer showcase for Parallel's powerful APIs.
Create a developer playground that is a joy to use.
Extend and evolve the brand across product, marketing, and other surfaces.

Requirements Snapshot

Possess a passion for crafting experiences that are both beautiful and functional.
Demonstrate end-to-end ownership from design exploration to shipped work in your portfolio.
Exhibit strong taste in both product and brand design.
Obsess over the details that make interfaces delightful.
Thrive at the intersection of usability and identity.

Expected Impact

This role is pivotal in translating Parallel's powerful AI APIs into delightful and functional user experiences for both consumers and developers. The designer will ensure a cohesive and intentional brand presence across all touchpoints, ultimately driving significant real-world outcomes and aiming for millions of users to engage with the work.

This summary was generated from the original job posting (AI-assisted, human-reviewed).
For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

At Parallel Web Systems, we are bringing a new web to life: it’s built with, by, and for AIs. Our work spans innovations across crawling, indexing, ranking, retrieval, and reasoning systems. Our first product is a set of APIs for AIs to do more with web data.

We are a fully in-person team based in both San Francisco and Palo Alto, CA. Our organization is flat; our team is small and talent dense.

We want to talk to you if you are someone who can bring us closer to living our aspirational values:

Own customer impact - It’s on us to ensure real-world outcomes for our customers.
Obsess over craft - Perfect every detail because quality compounds.
Accelerate change - Ship fast, adapt faster, and move frontier ideas into production.
Create win-wins - Creatively turn trade-offs into upside.
Make high-conviction bets - Try and fail. But succeed an unfair amount.

Job: As our first design hire, you will shape and build the best consumer showcase of what Parallel’s powerful APIs can do. You’ll also be responsible for building a developer playground that’s a joy to use. Additionally, you will extend and evolve our brand across multiple surfaces—product, marketing, and beyond—ensuring every touchpoint feels cohesive and intentional.

You: Love crafting experiences that are as beautiful as they are functional.Your portfolio shows end-to-end ownership, from design exploration to polished, shipped work. You have taste in both product and brand design, and you obsess about the details that make interfaces delightful. You thrive at the intersection of usability and identity, and you want your work to be seen, used, and loved by millions.

Our founder is Parag Agrawal. Previously, he was the CEO and CTO at Twitter. Our investors include First Round Capital, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and many others.

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