Conscious Talent
Head of Product @ AI Data Labeling Startup
7mo ago
USAHead
Lead product strategy, UX, and design for an AI data labeling platform connecting experts to AI research.
Responsibilities
- Product & Design Leadership Define and drive the end-to-end product vision, UX, and design for their expert and customer platforms.
- Lead a multidisciplinary team across product management, UX/UI design, and product operations.
- Establish a product culture grounded in user empathy, experimentation, and high taste.
- Own prioritization frameworks, roadmap planning, and execution cadence across product verticals.
- UX, Interface & Expert Experience Design world-class onboarding, vetting, and work interfaces for a global network of experts.
- Build systems that ensure expert motivation, fraud detection, and sustained high-quality contributions.
- Partner with Delivery to translate operational workflows into intuitive and elegant product surfaces.
- Champion accessibility, usability, and delight in every user interaction.
- AI-Native Product Development Partner with Research & Applied AI to integrate ML-powered capabilities across expert and customer interfaces.
- Translate emerging AI capabilities into usable product experiences that meaningfully improve throughput and quality.
- Define human-in-the-loop UX for expert review, annotation, and feedback cycles.
- Business & Strategic Leadership Serve as a key thought partner to the CEO and executive team on product-driven business strategy.
- Collaborate with GTM, Operations, and Customer Success to align product development with revenue, adoption, and customer needs.
- Represent the product and design vision in board, investor, and strategic partner settings.
- Develop metrics and frameworks that tie product outcomes directly to business impact.
Requirements
- Strategic & Entrepreneurial Leadership Founder-like ownership with experience scaling 0→1 and 1→100 products.
- Operates fluidly from long-term vision to pixel-level detail.
- Thinks in systems, leverage, and outcomes — not just features.
- Design Taste & User Obsession Deep aesthetic sensibility and product craftsmanship.
- Relentless focus on user empathy and behavior — especially experts and researchers.
- Balances simplicity, beauty, and utility within constraints.
- Technical Fluency Comfortable with data systems, ML workflows, and APIs; capable of partnering closely with engineering and research.
- Understands data-infrastructure constraints and can navigate tradeoffs with confidence.
- Curious about emerging AI-native interface paradigms (copilots, natural-language UX, etc.).
- Operational Excellence Skilled at designing scalable product processes and operating cadences.
- Uses metrics to inform decisions without losing product intuition.
- Collaborates effectively with Delivery, Engineering, and Research.
- Team Building & Mentorship Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain exceptional PM and design talent.
- Creates an environment of ownership, clarity, and psychological safety.
- Leads with warmth, rigor, and taste.
- Executive Communication Clear, concise communicator who inspires confidence.
- Capable of telling compelling product stories to customers, board members, and investors.
- Balances high-level strategy with grounded execution detail.
- Preferred Background 7+ years in product and/or design leadership at high-growth tech companies, ideally at the intersection of AI, data, or enterprise SaaS.
- Experience building expert networks, marketplaces, or human-in-the-loop systems.
- Prior entrepreneurial or founding experience strongly preferred.
- Deep understanding of AI, data labeling, or research-tooling ecosystems.
- Strong design instincts backed by a portfolio or product examples.
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Design, or a related field.
Other
- Role: Head of Product Location: San Francisco / Bay Area (preferred)
- Our client is a high-growth AI company building the infrastructure that enables humans and AI to collaborate at scale. They believe that for better AI, better data is needed — and that the best data comes from experts who are well supported, incentivized, and scaffolded for success.
- Originally founded to empower meaningfully engaged work for experts, our client now orchestrates teams of specialists to help AI models perform expert-only capabilities at scale. They design systems that allow top-tier experts to contribute high-quality data — and AI researchers to consume it seamlessly — enabling their partners to build more capable, reliable, and aligned AI systems.
- Our client is building the infrastructure layer for expert-curated, extremely high-quality data powering the world’s leading AI models. They’re seeking a Head of Product to lead product strategy, UX, and design for the platform that connects world-class experts to frontier AI research.
- This role is ideal for a systems-oriented product leader — someone who has scaled products from ~$1M to $100M+ ARR, blends strong product taste with deep user empathy, and can operate fluently across AI research, expert contributor workflows, and enterprise needs.
- You will own their expert-facing and customer-facing product surfaces — defining how experts onboard, vet, contribute, and maintain quality, as well as how researchers and enterprise customers interact with their data-delivery systems.
- Highly competitive - final compensation will depend on experience, skill level, and location
- Equity
- Comprehensive Benefits