About Superhuman

Superhuman Mail

The Opportunity

• Define and shape AI-powered workflows: Own the end-to-end design of key workflows in Superhuman Mail, helping users focus on what matters most so they can move faster through their day.
• Own design from concept to implementation: Drive design work through every stage of the process: crafting well-executed ideas and sketches, interactive prototypes, high-fidelity designs, and final implementation.
• Conduct research and competitor analysis: Perform qualitative and quantitative research to understand customers, and competitor analysis to understand the landscape. Leverage customer insights to enhance the product experience and amplify user engagement.
• Set the bar for craft: Elevate the design culture at Superhuman by pursuing remarkable quality in your design craft and producing consistent, high-quality work.
• Influence product strategy: Partner with product, research, and data to set the vision for your team, and build a roadmap of projects that improve company objectives and metrics. Engage with stakeholders across the company, effectively communicating design updates to leadership for feedback and approval.
• Ensure quality delivery: Work with engineering to ensure that high-quality, delightful experiences get built and delivered on time. Advise product and engineering teammates through a deep understanding of design and interaction patterns.
• Be part of a supportive team: Work alongside a collaborative group of designers who give thoughtful feedback, share ideas openly, and help each other grow.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in similar product design roles.
• Demonstrated mastery of product design fundamentals, including visual and interaction design, typography, layout, and visual hierarchy. You’re an avid prototyper, and you sweat the details to build a premium, polished experience for users.
• Experience and curiosity with AI-powered products, including designing for trust, speed, and user control.
• Comfort working end-to-end, from early discovery and wireframes to high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and shipped products.
• Strong collaborator with a bias to action. Excited by the opportunity to create clarity when the direction is ambiguous.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently. Able to proactively manage priorities across multiple projects, collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, and thrive in fast-paced, results-driven environments.
• Portfolio showing senior-level problem framing, interaction design, and high-quality execution.
• Location: We’re open to you joining us in our San Francisco, Seattle, or New York offices, or from a home office anywhere in the United States or Canada.

Compensation and benefits

Superhuman offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more: 

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
• Disability and life insurance options
• 401(k) and RRSP matching 
• Paid parental leave
• 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
• Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
• Annual professional development budget and opportunities

Superhuman takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations.  In Canada, all locations where we support employment are considered “Zone 1”. 

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and maybe modified in the future. 

We encourage you to apply

At Superhuman, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Superhuman is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).