Staff Product Designer, Hazel AI

Altruist
San Francisco, CAPosted 24 February 2026

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About Altruist</strong></span></p> <p>Altruist is transforming the multi-trillion dollar wealth management industry by building an AI platform for wealth professionals. We partner with financial advisors nationwide, empowering them to grow, optimize time and resources, and deliver superior outcomes for their clients.</p> <p>We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you!</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>But first, our values</strong></span></p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong>Kindness</strong> - Kindness doesn’t <em>just</em> equal niceness. We listen to understand. We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives. We approach conflict openly, honestly, and respectfully.<br><br><strong>Brilliance</strong> - Humility is the skill we’re most proud of and possessing a growth mindset is always top of mind. We take ownership in everything we touch; regularly using our unique superpowers to reach a common goal as a team. We succeed and fail as one.<br><br><strong>Grit</strong> - When challenges arise, we stay laser focused on achieving our mission and finding a way forward, even when it’s hard. We are nimble and maintain a sense of urgency, swiftly adapting to change and overcoming obstacles.</p></div><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The opportunity</strong></span></p> <p>Hazel is Altruist’s AI platform for financial advisors that integrates across their tech stack and turns scattered data into actionable outcomes. We’re hiring an experienced Staff Product Designer for Hazel’s Admin AI—the agent that sits alongside advisors and their teams to capture context, manage work, and take action across notes, meetings, inbox, and tasks.</p> <ul> <li>This is an individual-contributor role reporting to the AI Product Design Manager.</li> <li>You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Research and own Hazel’s end-to-end Admin AI experience.</li> <li><strong>This role is hybrid, with three in-office days per week at our San Francisco Financial District location.</strong></li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>What you'll do</strong></span></p> <ul> <li><strong>Design agentic workflows for real admin work</strong> <ul> <li>Own the Admin AI experience across core surfaces like note-taking, meetings, inbox, and tasks.</li> <li>Design how Hazel captures context, summarizes information, follows up, asks clarifying questions, and takes action on a user’s behalf—while staying predictable, transparent, and trustworthy.</li> <li>Invent new interaction patterns for AI-assisted work where traditional UI doesn’t fit, blending automation, suggestions, and human control to reduce cognitive load without hiding important context.</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Define how the agent communicates and collaborates</strong> <ul> <li>Design patterns for how Hazel signals progress, uncertainty, permissions, and handoffs across multi-step and asynchronous workflows.</li> <li>Shape how Hazel explains what it’s doing, why it’s doing it, and what it needs from the user in a way that feels intuitive and trustworthy.</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Prototype and ship in code</strong> <ul> <li>Build functional prototypes using real front-end code—not just static mockups.</li> <li>Work closely with engineers to refine interaction details and ship features into production, owning features from concept through launch.</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Iterate quickly as Hazel evolves</strong> <ul> <li>Design, test, and refine experiences in tight feedback loops as Hazel’s capabilities expand with model improvements.</li> <li>Work on critical-path features, adapting designs as the under ... (truncated, view full listing at source)