Senior Product Designer - Meeting Lifecycle

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Product Designer (live meeting and capture experience)
• Focus: Trust-sensitive, multi-surface capture and participant control
• Work model: Seattle office Monday–Thursday; option to work from home Fridays after onboarding

Description

You will own the live meeting and capture experience so users can tell whether Read is working, know what to do when something goes wrong, and feel confident the product’s presence is appropriate for everyone in the room—including people who never signed up.

You will keep the meeting—not Read—as the primary focus, designing how Read becomes ready, starts, pauses, recovers, and completes capture across desktop, mobile, web, bots, and native platform integrations.

Responsibilities

Live Capture Experience

• Design how Read becomes ready, starts, pauses, recovers, and completes capture across desktop, mobile, web, bots, and native platform integrations
• Define how Read communicates its state so users can tell it is working without leaving the meeting
• Keep the meeting—not Read—as the user’s primary focus

Failure, recovery, and the meetings we miss

• Design what happens when permissions are denied, platforms restrict access, or capture is interrupted or partial
• Make clear what was preserved, what was missed, and what the user can do next
• Help users create a useful meeting record from notes, whiteboard photos, files, and externally recorded media without implying that Read heard something it did not

Trust and participant control

• Design disclosure, consent, notification, objection, and opt-out experiences
• Balance transparency for participants with keeping the meeting focused and usable
• Work through the competing needs of the Read user, host, other participants, enterprise administrators, and platform providers

Coherence across capture mechanisms

• Define one customer-facing model for capture state that holds across surfaces
• Decide what must remain consistent and where platform-specific patterns are the better answer
• Design for cases where capture mechanisms compete, conflict, or produce duplicate records

As the roadmap evolves

• Shape live in-meeting assistance: notes, questions, and retrieval designed for latency, uncertainty, and revision
• Maintain a clear line between preliminary live content and the finished record

Requirements

• 5+ years of product design experience
• Independently own a complex product area in a shipped product; portfolio shows strong interaction and visual craft
• Experience designing multi-state experiences where edge cases, failure modes, and recovery paths are central
• Systems thinking for coherence across surfaces and mechanisms without flattening everything into one pattern
• Track record of shaping product direction, not only executing briefs
• End-to-end ownership from problem framing through launch and evaluation
• Strong partnership with Product and Engineering; influence scope and carry design quality through implementation
• Comfort working through technical constraints; distinguish real limitations from inherited assumptions
• Ability to prototype complex behavior for real interactions rather than static screens
• Fluency with AI-assisted design workflows; judgment about where AI improves—or weakens—a product experience
• Multiplier mindset: PMs, engineers, and designers seek your perspective and team quality improves because you contribute

Nice to have

• Experience with media capture, recording, streaming, transcription, or playback
• Familiarity with permissions, background processes, connectivity, synchronization, or long-running application state
• Experience with privacy-sensitive or multi-party products
• Experience designing real-time, probabilistic, or AI-generated output
• Experience designing accessible, low-attention, or peripheral interfaces
• Direct experience with meeting software (not required)

Benefits

• On-target earnings range: $160,000–$190,000 (base salary + performance-based commissions paid quarterly)
• Collaborative, high-energy team environment
• Leadership and learning opportunities with visionary leaders in AI
• Collaborative culture that celebrates initiative and winning
• Recognized as a Top Startup in Seattle and a Top Company To Watch by Inc Magazine