Product Designer, Claude Code

Job Description

About AnthropicAnthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the roleIn the Product Designer, Claude Code role, you’ll:Design for agentic workflows across surfaces. Own the experience of Claude Code across terminal, IDE extensions, web, and Slack. Design how Claude communicates progress, requests permissions, handles failures, and coordinates multi-step autonomous work. Invent new interaction patterns.

Claude Code is intentionally low-level and unopinionated—a power tool for sophisticated users. Design conventions that respect developer expertise while making complex agentic behaviors feel intuitive and trustworthy.

Prototype in code. This is a developer tool. You’ll work directly with terminal interfaces, understand CLI constraints, and build functional prototypes.

The best ideas will come from hands-on exploration, not just mockups. Ship fast and iterate. Claude Code moves quickly—new capabilities ship constantly as models improve.

You’ll need to design, test, and refine in tight cycles, often on critical-path work for major launches. Work fluidly across the team.

Partner with engineering, research, and product without needing clear handoffs or defined lanes. Jump into problems wherever you’re useful—whether that’s pairing with an engineer on implementation details, exploring a new model capability with a researcher, or pressure-testing an idea with users directly. Raise the bar on craft.

Obsess over the details that make power tools feel right: information density, speed, keyboard-first interaction, clear feedback loops, minimal friction. Why this role matters:Claude Code started as a research project and became one of Anthropic’s most successful products, generating over $1B in annualized revenue within six months of launch. It redefined how developers work, and we’re just getting started.

This is genuinely new territory. We’re designing the future of coding — Claude working autonomously on tasks, making decisions, asking for input when needed, and coordinating with humans throughout. The interaction patterns for this don’t exist yet.

We need to invent them. The product is expanding fast: from terminal to VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, to web, to Slack. Each surface brings new design challenges.

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