Lead Product Designer, AI for the Planet
Position Summary & Responsibilities
Persons in these roles are expected to work from our offices in Seattle. On-site requirements vary based on position and team. If you have questions about on-site work arrangements for this role, please ask your recruiter.
Our base salary range is $137,520 - $206,289, and in addition we have generous bonus plans to provide a competitive compensation package.
Who We Are:
We are a small product team at the Allen Institute for AI working on AI for the Planet. We're working on maritime conservation, food security, disaster resilience, and climate solutions with some of the most impactful organizations on the planet. Design, engineering, product, and partnerships work side by side with an ML research team, building products that support our environmental and high-impact users.
Today, our team works on two products:
Skylight provides AI-powered intelligence to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing to protect our oceans. Governments, enforcement agencies, and conservation organizations in 95+ countries use Skylight data to protect their waters today via our interface, API, and most recently an agentic interface named Shippy. Read more at https://allenai.org/skylight.
OlmoEarth is an open platform built around our family of foundation models for Earth observation. Users create custom fine-tuned models to detect and classify novel geospatial features. The platform handles the full loop: imagery acquisition, annotation, as well as model training and inference for ML and non-ML experts alike. Partners today include International Food Policy Research Institute, The Group on Earth Observation, NASA Harvest, Global Mangrove Watch, Amazon Conservation Alliance and more across for-good domains. Read more at https://allenai.org/olmoearth.
You'll own the design for these products, and you'll have designers around you. Ai2's design group spans the organization, with designers working on open models, scientific agents, and our other conservation platforms. We lean on each other for critique, shared systems, and solving hard interaction problems. It's a small group, so the patterns you set here influence other teams and products.
If you're the kind of designer who is excited by how fast the craft is
Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights
Deep scientific rigor coupled with collaborative, multidisciplinary open-science alignment and large-scale data stewardship.
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