About Astrus

At Astrus, we’re leveraging AI to revolutionize the microchip design process, starting with the greatest bottleneck: analog layout. Our mission is to empower chip designers worldwide to create the next generation of advanced microchips with the assistance of cutting-edge AI. We’re backed by top-tier VC firms: Khosla Ventures, HOF Capital, and 1517 Fund.

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About the Role

As a Product Design Lead, you’ll have a foundational role in shaping the core experience of Astrus’ AI-powered design platform. This is a unique opportunity to create the interaction layer of a complex product from scratch, helping us build what’s essentially the “Figma for Circuit Designers.” Your designs will drive the experience for circuit designers, helping them solve intricate challenges and enabling them to produce superhuman chip designs with the power of AI. 🚀

You’ll work closely with AI, product, and engineering teams to develop highly intuitive, collaborative, and robust design solutions. Acting as the bridge between user experience and technical complexity, you’ll craft the interaction standards and patterns that make Astrus’ platform intuitive, productive, and a joy to use for circuit designers.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design of our core product line across canvas-based interfaces, supporting highly interactive circuit schematic designs and intricate workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering and AI teams to ensure your designs are optimized for real-world applications, and create solutions that simplify complex, technical requirements for users.
• Drive multi-user, collaborative workflows that include effective communication, approval processes, and seamless task management.
• Develop interaction standards and patterns that define the future of AI-enabled design tools, enabling designers to explore, analyze, and refine circuit layouts in new ways.
• Rapid prototyping and testing to quickly validate interaction patterns, bridging the gap between concept and functional experience.
• Perform user research, and utilize insights into actionable product improvements, ensuring the Astrus platform evolves to meet user needs and industry standards.
• Contributing towards building and maintaining Astrus’ core Figma component library and design system to speed up rapid explorations and build stronger cohesion with front-end engineering.

Who You Are

• Senior-level Product Designer with at least 4 years of experience designing complex products with multi-user flows, and helping users navigate through large data-sets. Experience working on canvas-based apps would be highly preferred.
• Skilled in interaction design and rapid prototyping with a portfolio that demonstrates elegant solutions to complex, multi-faceted problems.
• Comfortable in a 0 to 1 design environment with a track record of success building product experiences from the ground up in ambiguous, fast-paced settings.
• Collaborative and strategic, with a desire to shape and define the future of circuit design and grow into a key role at Astrus. This will likely require having a healthy blend of open-mindedness and advocating for strong points of view.