Sprouts.ai - Design Lead

Description :

Role : Design Lead (AI-Native Product & Systems) 310 Years.

Location : Chandigarh / Bangalore.

Job Type : Full-Time.

Sprouts.

AI is an AI-native Generative Demand Platform redefining the $1.

1T B2B Go-To-Market (GTM) category.

We help demand-gen and sales teams generate qualified pipeline and close deals faster using real-time intelligence signals and agentic AI execution.

Our product is not a static SaaS dashboard.

It is a living system of agents, copilots, workflows, and decisions.

We are hiring a Design Lead to own and shape the AI-native product experience end-to-end from agent interactions and copilot flows to system-level UX, visual language, and design-engineering collaboration.

This role is for someone who understands that designing AI systems is fundamentally different from designing traditional apps.

What Youll Own (Outcomes, Not Tasks) :

AI-Native Product Experience :

- Design copilot-style interfaces, agent interaction patterns, and decision-assist workflows.

- Define how users talk to, guide, correct, and trust AI agents.

- Make complex AI behavior legible, controllable, and confidence-inspiring.

System-Level UX Thinking :

Design flows across :

- Data ingestion ? insight ? recommendation ? action ? feedback loop.

- Think in states, transitions, uncertainty, and fallbacks, not just screens.

- Handle partial answers, retries, agent failures, and ambiguity gracefully.

Design Language & Design System. :

- Own the visual and interaction language of Sprouts.AI.

- Build and evolve a design system optimized for :

- AI copilots.

- Dense B2B data.

- High-frequency usage.

- Power users.

- Ensure consistency across dashboards, agents, alerts, and workflows.

Deep Collaboration with Engineering :

- Work extremely closely with :

- Frontend engineers.

- AI/ML engineers.

- Design with a strong understanding of technical constraints (latency, streaming, retries, async flows).

- Influence product architecture through design insight.

Design for Speed :

Use AI tools to accelerate :

- Ideation.

- Wireframing.

- UI exploration.

- Variants and iterations.

- Ship fast, test early, refine continuously.

Product Thinking & User Impact :

- Translate business goals (pipeline, conversion, efficiency) into design decisions.

Balance :

- Automation vs control.

- Transparency vs simplicity.

- Power vs usability.

- Design for measurable outcomes, not aesthetics alone.

Tech & Tools Youll Work With :

- Design : Figma, FigJam, Framer, Stich, ProtoPie.

- AI-assisted design : Claude, GPT-based tools, AI wireframing / copy tools.

- Data visualization : Charts, tables, timelines, graphs for B2B data.

- Frontend awareness : React / Next.js mental model (no coding required, but must understand feasibility).

Must-Have Skills (Hard Filters) :

- Proven experience designing complex B2B or data-heavy products.

- Hands-on experience designing AI-powered or AI-assisted products.

- Strong understanding of :

- Copilot UX.

- Conversational interfaces.

- Human-in-the-loop systems.

Ability to reason about :

- Uncertainty.

- Model fallibility.

- Confidence calibration.

- Excellent communication and storytelling skills.

- Comfort working in high-speed, ambiguous environments.

- Strong design judgment knows when not to design more.

Nice-to-Haves (Strong Signals) :

- Experience designing agentic or autonomous systems.

- Background in enterprise SaaS, GTM tools, analytics, or developer tools.

Familiarity with AI concepts :

1. RAG.

2. Agents.

3. Feedback loops.

4. Evaluations.

- Experience building and maintaining design systems.

- Past collaboration with ML or infra teams.

- Experience mentoring or leading other designers.

Youll Thrive Here If You :

- Think of design as a system, not a set of screens.

- Are excited by AIs unpredictability and want to tame it through design.

- Can balance vision with pragmatism.

- Prefer shipping and iterating over perfect mockups.

- Enjoy close, opinionated collaboration with engineers and founders.

- Believe design should shape product strategy, not decorate it.

Please Dont Apply If :

- You only design static marketing websites or simple CRUD apps.

- Youre uncomfortable with ambiguity or fast iteration.

- You expect long design cycles before shipping.

- You havent thought deeply about how humans interact with AI systems.

Hiring Signals We Look For :

- Case studies showing complex system design, not just visuals.

- Examples where you designed :

1. AI copilots.

2. Automation with human override.

3. Data-dense workflows.

- Clear articulation of trade-offs you made.

- Evidence that your designs impacted real business or user outcomes.

What Youll Get :

- A foundational role shaping the design DNA of an AI-native platform.

- Direct collaboration with world-class founders, AI leaders, and engineers.

- Ownership over product experience across the entire platform.

- The chance to define best-in-class AI UX in the GTM space.

- A fast-moving, high-trust environment where design has real influence.

- Access to cutting-edge AI tools and workflows.

- Growth path toward Head of Design as the org scales.