Role Description As a UI/UX Designer at Nous Research, you'll help define the future of human-AI interaction across Hermes Agent and Nous Portal. You'll design intuitive experiences for complex agent workflows, explore new interaction patterns for AI-native products, and contribute to the visual identity of one of the leading organizations in open-source AI. You'll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and Marketing to create polished experiences that balance usability, performance, and thoughtful design. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving ambiguous design problems and wants to help invent the interfaces that define the next generation of AI products. Responsibilities - Design user experiences across Hermes Agent and Nous Portal spanning desktop, web, mobile, and terminal interfaces. - Develop intuitive interaction patterns for AI agents, including multi-step workflows, tool usage, long-running tasks, and human-in-the-loop experiences. - Contribute across the entire product design process, from user flows and information architecture to high-fidelity visual design and interaction details. - Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to design, prototype, and ship polished, performant user experiences. - Create reusable design systems, components, and interaction patterns that improve consistency across products. - Prototype concepts using modern design tools and, where appropriate, lightweight code or interactive prototypes. - Support brand expression and art direction across product, marketing, documentation, and community experiences. - Conduct user research and incorporate qualitative and quantitative feedback into product improvements. - Help establish design principles and best practices for AI-native user experiences across the company. Qualifications - 3+ years of UI/UX or Product Design experience with a portfolio of shipped consumer, enterprise, or developer products. - Strong craft across interaction design, visual design, typography, layout, and motion. - Demonstrated ability to design thoughtful user experiences for complex workflows and ambiguous problem spaces. - Proficiency with modern design tools such as Figma and interactive prototyping platforms. - Experience collaborating closely with engineers to bring high-quality designs into production. - Strong product intuition and the ability to translate user needs into elegant design solutions. - Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to cross-functional product development. - Comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment with evolving product requirements. Requirements - Experience designing AI products, LLM applications, AI agents, or developer tools. - Familiarity with terminal, CLI, desktop, browser extension, and multi-platform application design. - Experience prototyping with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, or similar technologies. - Background contributing to design systems, branding, visual identity, or creative direction. - Familiarity with open-source software communities and developer-focused products. - Passion for exploring new interaction paradigms that make advanced AI systems more intuitive and effective.

Role Description We're looking for a Lead Product Designer I to shape the next phase of design at Allocate, a leadership-track role combining project ownership, cross-functional influence, and early people management. - Lead projects end to end, coordinate across squads, and partner closely with PMs, engineers, and stakeholders. - Raise the quality bar and help junior designers grow. - Understand the complexities of private markets, including funds, co-investments, capital calls, distributions, and portfolio reporting. - Utilize tools like Figma, Claude, Cursor, and Magic Patterns for rapid prototyping and validation. Qualifications - 5+ years in product design with increasing responsibility. - Experience leading projects through full design cycles, from discovery to delivery. - Genuinely curious about complex financial topics. - Comfortable building interactive prototypes, ideally in Figma and Magic Patterns. - Strong systems thinking with a track record of scalable, maintainable interfaces. - Strong collaboration skills with engineers, PMs, and stakeholders. - Experience with design systems and component libraries. - Strong communication and storytelling skills. - Experience mentoring or managing junior designers. - Familiarity with fintech or private markets is a strong plus. Requirements - Coordinate design across squads: run design syncs, manage dependencies, and keep projects moving. - Collaborate closely with PMs, engineers, and stakeholders to define problems and shape solutions. - Develop real working knowledge of private markets and client workflows. - Use AI-assisted tools for research synthesis, exploration, and prototyping. - Identify user- and system-level opportunities to improve usability, performance, and consistency. - Improve team processes, design systems, and tooling. - Mentor designers (IC2 and below) through feedback, reviews, and 1:1 coaching. - Support recruiting and begin operating as a hiring manager for junior design roles. - Communicate design decisions clearly, framing the work in terms of user value and business outcomes. Benefits - Medical, dental, and vision insurance. - Responsible time off (RTO). - 401(k) plan. Company Description Allocate is rebuilding private market investing for RIAs and family offices. Our platform brings together curated fund and co-investment opportunities, institutional-grade infrastructure, and the tracking, analytics, and administration tools clients need to model and manage exposure across various private asset classes.

• Make a multi-service system legible at a glance. Design the views that let a developer see how their services connect and depend on each other, instead of stitching the picture together one service at a time. This comprehension gap is where design can make a complicated system feel cohesive and friendly. • Design system-level observability. Aggregated logs, metrics, deploys, and events across a whole project, filterable by environment and resource — so a developer can answer "what's going on with my system" in one place. This is high-density information design where hierarchy, scanning speed, and progressive disclosure are the whole game. • Design deployment as a coordinated act. When an application has many services, coordination gets hard. You'll design cross-service deployment and rollback, and a preview model so shipping feels safe at any scale. • Design and consider all product states. You'll own the "unglamorous" moments. Like build errors, failed deploys, and empty states, and turn them into helpful experiences. Since developer tools earn their reputation by how they handle problems, your focus is on guiding the user to success even when things go wrong. • Own a first-run experience worth recommending. The path from signup to first successful deploy is where trust starts. You'll design it so that a developer's first ten minutes make them want to tell someone. • Contribute to where the platform goes next. Alongside the shipping work, you'll bring concept explorations and a strong point of view to a design-led discovery track, shaping the platform's future through a weekly critique cadence with the rest of the team.

• Make a multi-service system legible at a glance. Design the views that let a developer see how their services connect and depend on each other, instead of stitching the picture together one service at a time. This comprehension gap is where design can make a complicated system feel cohesive and friendly. • Design system-level observability. Aggregated logs, metrics, deploys, and events across a whole project, filterable by environment and resource — so a developer can answer "what's going on with my system" in one place. This is high-density information design where hierarchy, scanning speed, and progressive disclosure are the whole game. • Design deployment as a coordinated act. When an application has many services, coordination gets hard. You'll design cross-service deployment and rollback, and a preview model so shipping feels safe at any scale. • Design and consider all product states. You'll own the "unglamorous" moments. Like build errors, failed deploys, and empty states, and turn them into helpful experiences. Since developer tools earn their reputation by how they handle problems, your focus is on guiding the user to success even when things go wrong. • Own a first-run experience worth recommending. The path from signup to first successful deploy is where trust starts. You'll design it so that a developer's first ten minutes make them want to tell someone. • Contribute to where the platform goes next. Alongside the shipping work, you'll bring concept explorations and a strong point of view to a design-led discovery track, shaping the platform's future through a weekly critique cadence with the rest of the team.