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Salary: USD 190,000 - 245,000 / annual
Kalepa is building AI systems for the insurance industry, helping underwriters and claims professionals work more effectively. The company creates professional-grade software that reads, reasons, decides, and acts within real workflows. Products are already in production with leading insurers.
As Lead Product Designer, you will own design for the platform's most complex, cross-cutting problems from discovery through delivery and iteration. You'll partner with product managers, engineers, and client success teams to turn ambiguous problems into clear product direction, balancing user needs with business goals.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading design for complex workflows, particularly data-dense interfaces for underwriters
- Defining how AI surfaces in the product: communicating confidence levels, surfacing sources, and maintaining user control
- Establishing scalable design patterns to support expansion across new lines of business
- Using AI and rapid prototyping tools to validate concepts quickly
- Raising design standards across the team through critique, mentorship, and shared standards
- Collaborating with the current Lead Designer, product, and engineering teams
This role reports to the Head of Product and is based in San Francisco with remote flexibility.
Requirements:
- 7+ years designing digital products for B2B, data-rich, or productivity tools
- Experience in rapidly scaling, ownership-mentality startup environments
- Experience designing AI-driven tools
- Experience scaling existing platforms to support new and expanding workflows
- Strong portfolio demonstrating ability to simplify complexity and apply clear interaction patterns
- Systems thinking with design systems contribution experience
- Strong visual design skills, particularly in information hierarchy, interaction, and layout
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Curious and adaptable mindset for solving ambiguous problems
Bonus: MUI/Material UI experience, InsurTech/FinTech/regulated industry background, technical background or interest in how products are built.
