Signal Watch — The 100 List. Non-Bay Area Companies with Confirmed Signals

This scan verified 64 non-Bay Area companies against the full rubric. One scores Act. Thirty score Watch. The rest are geographic mismatches, decayed signals, or below threshold — each listed with a named trigger so you stop researching them.

The format calls for 100 entries. After applying the non-Bay Area filter, the geographic eligibility hard rule, and the rubric floor, 64 companies remain. Including companies below every threshold would pad the count and waste your time.

Vanta is the only Act. Contact this week. Gray Swan AI and Replicant are the strongest Watch entries — prepare them simultaneously. Everything else is sequenced by signal freshness and role score below.

These roles don't surface in a standard Bay Area job scan. Whether that visibility gap means thinner applicant pools is company-specific and unconfirmed. Treat it as a possible advantage, not a guaranteed one.

1. Act now — one company, this week

Vanta is the only company in this scan where both rubric dimensions clear Act simultaneously, and the signal is hot. Prepare and apply before the weekend.

1. Vanta. Automated security and compliance platform — continuous monitoring that proves enterprise trust posture. Director of Product Design, Third-Party Risk Management

Stage / Size / Capital: Series D, $150M raised at $4.15B valuation.
Offices: SF HQ; role is remote-US.
Value chain: Midstream compliance infrastructure between cloud providers and enterprises. Design owns the trust surface — the interface where a buyer decides whether a vendor's security posture is acceptable.
Best at: Making compliance continuous rather than periodic. Always-on monitoring replaces audit prep.
Signals: Posted August 25 (day 10). $275K–$323K + equity. Hot.
Tier: Growth-stage platform. Tier Playbook: Read growth-stage playbook before outreach. Vanta uses AI to power its automation, but the product is compliance infrastructure — customers buy SOC 2 readiness. Expect a growth-stage evaluation: function-building, cross-functional influence, player-coach.
Rubric: Company 11/12 (AI 2, Stage 3, Design 3, Trajectory 3) | Role 14/15 (Comp 3, Scope 3, Craft 2, AI 3, Portfolio 3).
Portfolio match: This Director owns an AI-centric workflow builder for third-party risk. The hard problem: making automated compliance decisions legible to enterprise buyers who are personally liable for vendor risk. A wrong assessment has legal consequences, not just UX ones. The Trust essay's Output Review handoff maps directly: how does a compliance officer evaluate what an automated system concluded about a vendor's security posture? Lead with the interaction model for surfacing confidence levels in automated assessments. Back it with Thermo Fisher mySupply (BCG DV) — documentation accuracy with regulatory consequences in pharma, $20M+ margin. Juno has shipped trust calibration in production at TinyFish (agent auditability, attribution) and designed enterprise compliance surfaces at BCG DV. Few candidates carry both.
Verdict: Act. Jeremy Epling, CPO, is the mandate sponsor — he owns Product, Engineering, and Design. No named design Director or VP has been established as the direct hiring manager. The role may report through a still-open Head of Design layer. Apply directly via Ashby. Reach Epling on LinkedIn referencing the Trust essay's framework for automated compliance decisions. Ask about reporting structure in the first conversation — this determines whether you'd report to a peer or to Epling directly. Battlecard candidate — produce before interview.

2. Strongest Watch — prepare alongside Vanta

Six companies with hot signals and role scores of 11 or higher. Gray Swan AI has the highest role score in the entire scan — a perfect 15/15. Replicant's posting says design has been "attempted twice and under-resourced," which tells you both the risk and why you'd have leverage.

2. Gray Swan AI. AI safety evaluation platform — red-teams frontier models for harmful outputs before production. Staff Product Designer

Stage / Size / Capital: Series A, $40M raised.
Offices: Pittsburgh origin; remote-US.
Value chain: Upstream AI safety infrastructure. The evaluation layer model developers use to assess risk before shipping.
Best at: Adversarial testing at scale — finding failure modes in frontier models before deployment.
Signals: Posted August 27 (day 8). $205K–$255K + bonus + equity. Hot.
Tier: AI-native. Tier Playbook: Read AI-native playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 8/12 (AI 3, Stage 1, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Role 15/15 (Comp 3, Scope 3, Craft 3, AI 3, Portfolio 3).
Portfolio match: The Staff designer owns monitoring and model-security interfaces. Two audiences use the same surface — ML engineers evaluating test results and enterprise compliance officers deciding whether a model is safe to deploy. Opposite fluencies, one interface. The Trust essay's Decision Gate applies: what evidence does a human need to approve or reject deployment? Carrier IQ provenance from Agentic Labs (tracing automated output origins) maps to tracing where a model vulnerability originated. Juno has designed decision surfaces for high-consequence approvals in pharma (Thermo Fisher, BCG DV) where getting the gate wrong has regulatory consequences — a dimension most AI design candidates haven't touched.
Verdict: Watch. Company 8 clears Watch but not Act — Series A execution risk is the gap. Role 15 is the highest in this scan. Contact Meredith McDermott, UX Lead — she's building her first design team. Apply via Ashby and reach McDermott directly.

3. Replicant. Conversational AI — voice agents that handle customer service calls autonomously, not route them. Director, Product Design

Stage / Size / Capital: Series B, $113M total.
Offices: Distributed US/Canada.
Value chain: Downstream AI application deployed into enterprise contact centers.
Best at: End-to-end voice automation — resolving calls without human intervention.
Signals: Posted August 28 (day 7). Comp not disclosed; equity offered. The posting says design has been "attempted twice and under-resourced." Hot.
Tier: AI-native. Tier Playbook: Read AI-native playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 8/12 (AI 3, Stage 2, Design 2, Trajectory 1) | Role 14/15 (Comp 2, Scope 3, Craft 3, AI 3, Portfolio 3).
Portfolio match: The Director is 80% hands-on and rebuilds design from scratch. Core problem: conversation-flow architecture for autonomous voice agents — when should the agent escalate, how does a human re-enter mid-conversation, how does the enterprise monitor thousands of concurrent calls? The Trust essay's In-Progress handoff (detecting deviation during a live interaction) maps to the monitoring challenge. Lead with Brand Pulse from Agentic Labs (real-time monitoring of autonomous system behavior). Juno has built design functions from zero at BCG DV and shipped agent monitoring in production at TinyFish. Replicant needs both because they've failed at function-building twice — that history is your opening.
Verdict: Watch. The "attempted twice" language requires direct investigation. Reports to unnamed VP of Product — identify this person before outreach. Ask what changed organizationally since the previous attempts. A vague answer is a red flag; a specific one (new VP, new budget, board mandate) means the window is real.

4. TRM Labs. Crypto intelligence platform — AI traces illicit financial activity for law enforcement and compliance. Head of Product Design

Stage / Size / Capital: Private; funding not independently established.
Offices: Distributed North America.
Value chain: Midstream intelligence layer between blockchain data and investigators.
Best at: Making blockchain forensics usable by non-technical investigators.
Signals: Observed live September 2. Clock unresolved. Player-coach, function-building mandate.
Tier: AI-native. Tier Playbook: Read AI-native playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 9/12 (AI 2, Stage 2, Design 3, Trajectory 2) | Role 13/15 (Comp 2, Scope 3, Craft 3, AI 2, Portfolio 3).
Portfolio match: The Head role builds a design org while staying hands-on with investigative workflow design. Specific problem: how do you design a decision surface where an investigator trusts that an AI-generated transaction trace is complete and accurate before using it as legal evidence? This is Output Review at its highest stakes — the output is potential courtroom evidence. Lead with the Red Cross disbursement platform (BCG DV): a system where the decision has legal and financial consequences, multiple data sources reconcile into one view, and the user must trust the output enough to act ($847K disbursed). No incumbent — this is the open top design seat.
Verdict: Watch. Clock-unresolved limits confidence. Apply via Ashby. Verify freshness before investing deep preparation.

5. Affirm. Buy-now-pay-later — consumer financing at point of sale. Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences

Stage / Size / Capital: Public (AFRM).
Offices: Remote-first US.
Value chain: Downstream financial services at checkout. Design owns the trust moment.
Best at: Transparent consumer lending — no hidden fees, no deferred interest, enforced by design.
Signals: Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences, live. California: $195K–$255K. Clock unresolved on both Staff roles.
Tier: Enterprise platform. Tier Playbook: Read enterprise playbook before outreach. Affirm is public with an established product. The "Agentic Experiences" mandate is AI-adjacent, but expect an enterprise evaluation: strategic influence, design systems thinking, cross-functional navigation.
Rubric: Company 7/12 (AI 2, Stage 1, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Role 14/15 (Comp 3, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 3, Portfolio 3).
Portfolio match: The Agentic Experiences role owns "proactive financial assistance" — an AI agent that initiates financial recommendations to consumers who didn't ask. How do you make an unsolicited financial suggestion feel helpful rather than predatory? This is the Trust essay's Intent-Setting inverted: the agent sets the intent, not the user. Lead with Allē (BCG DV) — proactively surfacing financial value (3.2× redemption) without feeling like a sales push. The $42 CAC proves the trust calibration worked at consumer scale. Most agentic-design candidates haven't designed financial trust at that volume.
Verdict: Watch. Company 7 is below company threshold, but role 14 clears Watch on role alone. Public-company equity limits upside. Apply via Greenhouse for the Agentic role specifically.

6. Linear. Project management for software teams — the product that replaced Jira through design quality. Senior/Staff Product Designer

Stage / Size / Capital: Private Series C; August 26 employee tender at $2.5B.
Offices: Distributed North America.
Value chain: Midstream productivity infrastructure. Design IS the product differentiation — Linear won market share from Jira primarily through craft quality.
Best at: Opinionated product design as competitive advantage.
Signals: Posted August 19 (day 16). Comp not disclosed.
Tier: Growth-stage platform. Tier Playbook: Read growth-stage playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 10/12 (AI 1, Stage 3, Design 3, Trajectory 3) | Role 11/15 (Comp 2, Scope 3, Craft 3, AI 1, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: Linear's problem is maintaining craft quality while introducing AI workflows (teams and agents) into a product whose users chose it for its intentionality. The Alibaba.com redesign is the closest analog — redesigning a product with an established user base who chose it for specific reasons, where the redesign must improve without alienating (+20% transactions, +2.2pt NPS). Juno has redesigned a product where design quality was the competitive moat and has production experience with agent workflows from TinyFish. That's the combination Linear needs.
Verdict: Watch. Company 10 clears Act threshold, but role 11 falls one point short — undisclosed comp is the gap. If comp confirms at $220K+ with meaningful equity, this upgrades to Act. Founder Karri Saarinen leads design directly. He is the design buyer. Apply via Linear's careers page. Lead with craft, not management narrative.

7. Luxury Presence. AI-powered platform for real estate agents — websites, CRM, marketing automation. Head of Product Design

Stage / Size / Capital: Series C, $74M equity, $100M ARR.
Offices: Austin HQ; remote US/Canada.
Value chain: Vertically integrated agent-facing stack from website to CRM. Design defines the experience across all surfaces.
Best at: Premium positioning at platform scale — making agent websites feel bespoke.
Signals: Head of Product Design, promoted September 2–4. $275K–$315K. CEO Malte Kramer publicly promoted the search and invited direct contact. Hot.
Tier: Growth-stage platform. Tier Playbook: Read growth-stage playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 9/12 (AI 1, Stage 2, Design 3, Trajectory 3) | Role 11/15 (Comp 3, Scope 3, Craft 2, AI 1, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: Net-new discipline-building mandate — the Head defines the design function from scratch. Lead with the BCG DV function-building narrative: standing up design practices across Thermo Fisher, Red Cross, Equinox+, and Allē — each time building team, process, and culture alongside the product. The 100% adoption at Thermo Fisher proves the function produced outcomes, not just process. Most Head-role candidates have built one team at one company; Juno has built four across different product contexts at BCG DV.
Verdict: Watch. AI centrality (1) limits company score. Reach Kramer directly — he invited contact. Lead with function-building, not the AI portfolio.

3. Growth-stage platforms with equity windows

Pre-IPO equity is the differentiator in this cluster. Joining these companies now versus twelve months from now has measurable financial consequences. Instrumentl is the freshest signal (day 1–2) and has named buyers on both sides — the lowest-friction outreach path in the scan.

8. Instrumentl. Grant discovery and management platform for nonprofits. Staff Product Designer

Stage / Size / Capital: Profitable, self-described hypergrowth.
Offices: SF-founded, distributed.
Value chain: Vertically integrated grant lifecycle — discovery, application, reporting, compliance.
Best at: Making grant discovery feel like product search rather than database querying.
Signals: Posted September 2–3 (day 1–2). $200K–$230K + equity. Reports to Hope Armstrong, Head of Design; Angela Braren (cofounder) is mandate sponsor. Hot.
Tier: Growth-stage platform. Tier Playbook: Read growth-stage playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 9/12 (AI 1, Stage 2, Design 3, Trajectory 3) | Role 11/15 (Comp 3, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 1, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: Enterprise workflow complexity where users (grant managers) juggle dozens of concurrent applications with different deadlines and compliance requirements. Thermo Fisher mySupply (BCG DV) is the closest analog: multi-stakeholder workflow where each participant has different information needs and approval gates, 6 partners, 100% adoption. The grant lifecycle has the same shape — multiple parties, different timelines, compliance at every gate.
Verdict: Watch. Reach Armstrong directly — named buyer with named sponsor.

9. Hightouch. Customer data platform with agentic marketing — activates data warehouse segments across channels. Staff Product Designer, AI Creative Tools

Stage / Size / Capital: Series D, $150M at $2.75B valuation, $100M ARR, ~380 employees.
Offices: SF HQ; design team remote-first.
Value chain: Midstream data activation between warehouse and marketing channels.
Best at: Composable CDP — letting marketers use their existing data warehouse instead of copying data.
Signals: Title recently changed from generic Staff to AI Creative Tools. Elliot Dahl, Head of Product Design, named as manager-screen interviewer. Clock unresolved.
Tier: Growth-stage platform. Tier Playbook: Read growth-stage playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 10/12 (AI 2, Stage 3, Design 2, Trajectory 3) | Role 11/15 (Comp 2, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 2, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: The role designs the interface where marketers evaluate and approve AI-generated creative before deployment. How does a marketer trust AI-generated ad variants without testing every one? That's Output Review applied to marketing creative — the volume makes per-item review impossible, so the system needs to surface the exceptions. Lead with Brand Pulse from Agentic Labs (evaluating AI-generated brand analysis at volume). Juno has designed AI output evaluation in production and understands enterprise trust thresholds from Alibaba.com.
Verdict: Watch. Company 10 clears Act threshold, but role 11 falls short — undisclosed comp is the gap. Reach Elliot Dahl directly.

10. Ashby. Recruiting software — ATS, CRM, scheduling, analytics in one platform. Staff Product Designer

Stage / Size / Capital: Private; claims 100%+ YoY growth, tens of millions ARR.
Offices: Distributed North America.
Value chain: Vertically integrated recruiting infrastructure. Design quality is the competitive edge against Greenhouse and Lever.
Signals: Posted August 7 (day 28). $220K–$240K + equity in SF/NYC. Approaching decay threshold.
Tier: Growth-stage platform. Tier Playbook: Read growth-stage playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 9/12 (AI 1, Stage 2, Design 3, Trajectory 3) | Role 11/15 (Comp 3, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 1, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: Workflow consolidation — replacing multiple tools with one unified system. The Red Cross platform (BCG DV) is the direct analog: 6 systems to 1 while preserving each system's specific workflow requirements. $847K disbursed proves the consolidated system worked under pressure. Ashby's bet is the same shape at a different scale — one platform replacing Greenhouse + Lever + scheduling tools + analytics.
Verdict: Watch. Day 28 — approaching 42-day decay. Apply soon. "Chris," Head of Product Design, authored the posting (no surname recovered).

11. Babylist. Registry and commerce platform for new parents. Director, Product Design, AI Builder

Stage / Size / Capital: Private; claims $750M in 2025 revenue.
Offices: Oakland origin, remote-first.
Signals: Posted August 3 (day 32). $244K–$305K + 22.5% bonus + equity. Approaching decay.
Tier: Growth-stage platform. Tier Playbook: Read growth-stage playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 8/12 (AI 1, Stage 2, Design 2, Trajectory 3) | Role 10/15 (Comp 3, Scope 2, Craft 2, AI 1, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: AI Builder is a net-new product surface — 0 to 1 build. Lead with Equinox+ (BCG DV): 0 to MVP in 3 months across 5 brands, 4.8 stars. Juno most recently shipped an agentic platform 0 to 1 in 3 months at TinyFish. That speed is the differentiator.
Verdict: Watch. Day 32 — apply before September 14 (day 42). Reports to unnamed VP, Head of Product Design and Research. Identify the VP before applying.

12. Bolt.new / StackBlitz. AI-powered development environment — generates, runs, and deploys full-stack web apps from natural language. Staff Product Designer

Stage / Size / Capital: Private; funding not established.
Offices: Fully distributed.
Value chain: Downstream AI application between models and people building software.
Best at: In-browser full-stack execution — AI doesn't just generate code, it runs it in a sandbox.
Signals: Observed live September 3. Clock unresolved.
Tier: AI-native. Tier Playbook: Read AI-native playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 9/12 (AI 2, Stage 2, Design 2, Trajectory 3) | Role 11/15 (Comp 2, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 2, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: Intent-based interaction at its purest: user describes what they want, system builds it. The failure mode is the gap between what the user imagined and what the system produced. This is the Trust essay's Intent-Setting handoff — helping users specify intent precisely enough that AI output matches expectations. Lead with the forward-looking Intent-Based Interaction artifacts from junochen.com. Juno has thought through this problem at the framework level and shipped intent-based systems in production at TinyFish.
Verdict: Watch. Clock-unresolved. Verify freshness before investing preparation time.

13. AlphaSense. AI market intelligence — searches and synthesizes financial documents, earnings calls, and research with source attribution. Senior/Staff Product Designer

Stage / Size / Capital: Private.
Offices: NYC HQ; remote-US.
Value chain: Midstream intelligence layer between raw financial data and analysts.
Best at: AI-powered document search that shows where each claim comes from.
Signals: Live. Clock unresolved.
Tier: Enterprise platform. Tier Playbook: Read enterprise playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 8/12 (AI 2, Stage 2, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Role 11/15 (Comp 2, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 2, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: Source attribution in AI synthesis — when the platform summarizes 50 earnings calls, the analyst needs to trace each claim to its source document and paragraph. This is Output Review applied to financial intelligence, where the analyst is professionally liable for accuracy. Lead with Carrier IQ provenance from Agentic Labs. Juno has designed provenance interfaces for enterprise users at Thermo Fisher (BCG DV) where the user's professional liability depended on the data being traceable.
Verdict: Watch. Clock-unresolved. No design leadership contact established; identify the VP Product or Head of Design via LinkedIn before outreach. Apply via Greenhouse.

4. Healthcare and regulated

Five companies where compliance constraints, clinical workflows, or high-consequence decisions shape the design mandate. Thermo Fisher and Red Cross proof (BCG DV) leads in this cluster. Most AI-focused design candidates have never shipped where a design decision has legal or clinical consequences. Juno has, repeatedly — that's a concrete advantage in these evaluations.

14. Headway. Mental health platform connecting patients with therapists and handling insurance billing. Senior/Staff Product Designer, Provider Experience

Stage / Size / Capital: Private growth-stage.
Offices: NYC HQ; remote-US.
Value chain: Vertically integrated healthcare — patient matching, provider tools, insurance billing.
Best at: Insurance billing automation for therapists — removing the administrative burden that keeps therapists from accepting insurance.
Signals: Posted August 16 (day 19). Staff: $212K–$265K + equity. Agentic provider documentation and billing with code-level prototyping.
Tier: Healthcare/Regulated. Tier Playbook: Read healthcare playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 8/12 (AI 2, Stage 2, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Role 12/15 (Comp 3, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 2, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: Agentic documentation and billing for therapists — automating clinical documentation without losing the nuance insurance companies require for reimbursement. A documentation error means the therapist doesn't get paid. Lead with Thermo Fisher mySupply (BCG DV): documentation accuracy with direct financial consequences, where compliance feels like workflow rather than burden. $20M+ margin proves the design generated financial value, not just compliance.
Verdict: Watch. Contact: Roland Tiangco, Director of Product Design, Provider (scope route); Ellen Dong for design function; Jake Poses for product. Hiring authority unresolved — identify the actual decision-maker before applying. Apply via Ashby; reach Tiangco on LinkedIn.

15. Maven Clinic. Virtual clinic for women's and family health — telehealth, care navigation, employer benefits. VP of Design and Senior Staff Product Designer, Care Delivery, both live.

Stage / Size / Capital: Private; $425M+ raised, 2,300+ employers.
Offices: NYC HQ; Bay Area is an approved remote hub.
Value chain: Vertically integrated virtual care — clinical platform, care team, employer distribution.
Best at: Employer-distributed virtual care — making telehealth a benefits offering rather than a consumer purchase.
Signals: VP ($250K–$350K + equity) leads ~15 across product design, brand, and research. Two-role cluster signals active design org investment. Clock unresolved on both.
Tier: Healthcare/Regulated. Tier Playbook: Read healthcare playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 9/12 (AI 2, Stage 2, Design 3, Trajectory 2) | VP Role 11/15 (Comp 3, Scope 3, Craft 1, AI 2, Portfolio 2) | Sr Staff Role 11/15 (Comp 2, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 2, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: The Sr Staff role designs AI-native care delivery — how a patient interacts with AI-powered triage before reaching a clinician. The Trust essay's Decision Gate applied to clinical triage: when should AI hand off to a human clinician, and what evidence does the clinician need to pick up the thread? For the VP: BCG DV function-building across Thermo Fisher, Red Cross, Equinox+ — building design teams in regulated, high-stakes contexts where the design leader also had to establish the practice, not inherit it.
Verdict: Watch. VP reports to CPO Jason Lee. The Sr Staff is the stronger portfolio play (hands-on, AI-native clinical). Clock-unresolved — verify freshness. Apply for Sr Staff via Greenhouse unless VP scope is the goal.

16. Eli Lilly — TuneLab. Internal innovation lab building digital health products inside the pharma giant. Staff Product Designer

Stage / Size / Capital: Public pharma (LLY).
Offices: Indianapolis; US remote.
Value chain: Internal venture inside a pharma company — building consumer-facing digital health products with pharma-grade regulatory constraints.
Best at: Applying pharma R&D rigor to digital health product development.
Signals: Displayed 13 days old.
Tier: Healthcare/Regulated. Tier Playbook: Read healthcare playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 7/12 (AI 1, Stage 1, Design 2, Trajectory 3) | Role 10/15 (Comp 2, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 1, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: 0 to 1 digital health inside pharma. Lead with Thermo Fisher mySupply (BCG DV): building a digital product inside a pharma company where regulatory compliance shapes every design decision. Juno has already navigated pharma's approval structures and shipped.
Verdict: Watch (role 10). Public-company equity. TuneLab could mean real autonomy or corporate theater — ask about budget authority and shipping cadence early.

17. Parachute Health. Digital ordering platform for home medical equipment — replaces fax-based ordering. Staff Product Designer

Stage / Size / Capital: Private.
Offices: NYC; remote-first US.
Value chain: Midstream healthcare logistics — connecting prescribers, suppliers, and payers for durable medical equipment.
Best at: Digitizing the most analog workflow in healthcare — fax-based DME ordering.
Signals: Posted August 11 (day 24). $155K–$210K.
Tier: Healthcare/Regulated. Tier Playbook: Read healthcare playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 7/12 (AI 1, Stage 2, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Role 10/15 (Comp 2, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 1, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: Workflow digitization where the existing process (fax) is deeply embedded and the users didn't ask for the change. Red Cross (BCG DV): replacing fragmented manual processes with unified digital workflow across an organization that had been doing it the old way for decades. $847K disbursed proves the new system earned trust under pressure.
Verdict: Watch (role 10). Comp ceiling ($210K) below ideal. Day 24 — mid-Watch band.

18. Redesign Health. Venture studio that builds and launches healthcare companies. Staff Product Designer

Stage / Size / Capital: Private venture studio.
Offices: NYC; remote accessible.
Value chain: Upstream healthcare venture creation — designs and launches new healthcare companies from scratch.
Best at: Repeatable healthcare company creation — applying a studio model to reduce the risk of healthcare startups.
Signals: Posted August 13 (day 22).
Tier: Healthcare/Regulated. Tier Playbook: Read healthcare playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 7/12 (AI 1, Stage 2, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Role 10/15 (Comp 2, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 1, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: The venture-studio model mirrors BCG DV's structure — designing across multiple product contexts simultaneously. Lead with the BCG DV narrative directly: building 0 to 1 products across different domains with the same rigor adapted to each context — Thermo Fisher, Red Cross, Equinox+, Allē across four verticals under one design practice.
Verdict: Watch (role 10). Day 22 — early Watch band.

5. Function-building and enterprise mandates

Seven companies where the role either builds a design organization from scratch or sits inside a large org with a fresh AI mandate. Ethos and Clio are the stronger portfolio plays. Adobe, ServiceNow, and ServiceTitan have higher comp but limited equity and structural ceilings on design influence. Prioritize accordingly.

19. Ethos. Digital life insurance — AI-powered underwriting that issues policies in minutes. Director of Product Design

Stage / Size / Capital: Private.
Offices: Austin; remote-US.
Value chain: Vertically integrated insurance — underwriting, policy issuance, and claims in one digital experience.
Best at: Instant underwriting — using data and AI to issue life insurance policies without medical exams.
Signals: Live. Clock unresolved. $183K–$323K (wide band suggests leveling flexibility).
Tier: Growth-stage platform. Tier Playbook: Read growth-stage playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 7/12 (AI 1, Stage 2, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Role 11/15 (Comp 3, Scope 3, Craft 2, AI 1, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: Trust in automated financial decisions — the consumer must trust AI-powered underwriting is fair when the outcome determines whether they get life insurance. Allē (BCG DV): designing a financial product where consumer trust in fairness drives adoption (3.2× redemption, $42 CAC). The difference in stakes (loyalty program vs. life insurance) actually strengthens the proof — if you can build trust at the loyalty tier, you understand the mechanics; the stakes just increase the design constraint.
Verdict: Watch (role 11). Clock-unresolved. No design leadership contact established — identify the VP Product or Director of Design via LinkedIn before outreach.

20. Clio. Legal practice management — case management, billing, client intake, document automation. Director, Product Design, Foundations and Staff, Automations.

Stage / Size / Capital: Late-private legal tech.
Offices: Vancouver; remote-US permitted.
Value chain: Vertically integrated legal infrastructure. Design is one of three pillars of R&D.
Best at: Multi-product legal platform — Clio Manage, Clio Grow, and Clio Draft cover the full law firm workflow.
Signals: Automations at day 21; Director at 30+ days. Director band not recovered; Staff: C$148K–C$222K.
Tier: Enterprise platform. Tier Playbook: Read enterprise playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 8/12 (AI 1, Stage 2, Design 3, Trajectory 2) | Director Role 10/15 (Comp 2, Scope 3, Craft 2, AI 1, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: The Director, Foundations role owns AI foundations, permissions, notifications, and multi-product cohesion — making three distinct products feel like one platform. The Alibaba.com redesign is the analog: unifying a fragmented product experience into a coherent platform while preserving what worked in each surface (+2.2pt NPS proves the unification didn't alienate existing users).
Verdict: Watch. Director role at 30+ days — approaching decay. The Automations Staff role (day 21) is fresher and could be an entry point if the Director has stalled. No current VP Design confirmed; CPO is the fallback.

21. Adobe. Creative and document software — fresh roles in Firefly enterprise (GenStudio) and Document Cloud GenAI. Sr Staff, Firefly Enterprise and Staff, Document Cloud GenAI.

Stage / Size / Capital: Public (ADBE).
Offices: San Jose HQ; roles permit remote California.
Value chain: Upstream creative and document infrastructure — the tools other companies use to produce content.
Best at: Creative tool dominance across professional workflows — Photoshop, Illustrator, and now Firefly for generative content.
Signals: Sr Staff Firefly appeared within 5 days (hot); Document Cloud GenAI at day 29 (Watch). California bands: $189K–$301K.
Tier: Enterprise platform. Tier Playbook: Read enterprise playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 7/12 (AI 2, Stage 1, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Firefly Role 12/15 (Comp 3, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 2, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: Firefly GenStudio's problem is enterprise creative workflow with AI-generated assets — how does a brand team maintain visual consistency when AI generates the creative? Lead with the Brand Pulse pattern from Agentic Labs (monitoring AI-generated content against brand standards). Juno has designed brand-consistency evaluation at the system level, not the individual-asset level — that's the scale GenStudio operates at.
Verdict: Watch (role 12). Bay Area native — no geographic advantage. Public-company equity. Apply via Workday for the Firefly Sr Staff role (fresher signal).

22. ServiceNow. Enterprise workflow automation platform. Director, Product Design, Customer & Partner Experience and Sr Staff Product Designer, Security and Risk Workflow.

Stage / Size / Capital: Public (NOW).
Offices: Santa Clara HQ; roles say flexible/remote.
Value chain: Midstream enterprise workflow infrastructure — the platform companies use to automate internal operations.
Best at: Enterprise workflow consolidation — replacing dozens of internal tools with one platform.
Signals: Director posted September 3; Sr Staff posted September 2 (both day 1–2, hot). Sr Staff: $190K–$334K.
Tier: Enterprise platform. Tier Playbook: Read enterprise playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 6/12 (AI 1, Stage 1, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Sr Staff Role 10/15 (Comp 3, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 1, Portfolio 1).
Portfolio match: Enterprise security and risk workflow design. The Sr Staff role covers AI-native self-service and security workflows — adjacent to Vanta's compliance surface but from the enterprise platform side. Lead with Alibaba.com: enterprise platform redesign where the design challenge was making complex B2B workflows usable at scale. If you're already pursuing Vanta, ServiceNow is the lower-priority version of the same surface.
Verdict: Watch (role 10, barely). Bay Area native — no geographic advantage. Public-company equity limits upside. Amy Lokey, David Hoare, and Anand Tharanathan are publicly named UX leaders, but ownership of these specific roles is unresolved. Lower priority than Vanta.

23. ServiceTitan. Field service management platform for trades (HVAC, plumbing, electrical). Staff Product Designer, Back Office.

Stage / Size / Capital: Public (TTAN).
Offices: LA HQ; US remote.
Value chain: Vertically integrated field service infrastructure — scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, and payments for trades businesses.
Best at: End-to-end field service operations — connecting the office, the truck, and the customer in one system.
Signals: Staff Product Designer, Back Office, 4 days old (hot). $179K–$269K + bonus + equity. CTPO Abhishek Mathur joined March 12.
Tier: Enterprise platform. Tier Playbook: Read enterprise playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 6/12 (AI 1, Stage 1, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Role 10/15 (Comp 3, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 1, Portfolio 1).
Portfolio match: Back-office workflow design for field service operations. The Cummins/ZED Connect work (BCG DV) is domain-relevant — fleet and field operations management with dual-surface design. Use as supporting proof only.
Verdict: Watch (role 10). Public company, limited equity. Mathur is outside the 90-day executive-hire window. No named design manager established; Mathur (CTPO) is the fallback.

24. Workiva. Public regulated-reporting platform. Director of Product Design, Sustainability Management. USA remote. $177K–$290K + bonus + RSUs. Application closes September 7.

Stage / Size / Capital: Public (WK).
Offices: Ames, Iowa; role is USA remote.
Value chain: Midstream regulatory reporting infrastructure — the platform companies use to produce and file compliance documents.
Best at: Connected regulatory reporting — linking data sources to reports so changes propagate automatically.
Tier: Enterprise platform. Tier Playbook: Read enterprise playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 6/12 (AI 1, Stage 1, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Role 11/15 (Comp 3, Scope 2, Craft 2, AI 1, Portfolio 3).
Portfolio match: Unifying fragmented sustainability reporting products into a coherent platform with AI-enabled interactions. The Alibaba.com redesign is the structural analog: bringing coherence to a product surface that had accumulated inconsistencies across teams and timelines. The +2.2pt NPS proves the unification worked without breaking what users relied on.
Verdict: Watch (role 11). Public company, limited equity. The September 7 deadline is two days away — apply today or skip entirely. CPO Deepak Bharadwaj is the fallback; no design executive established.

25. Capital One. Director, Product Design, AI in Experience Design. McLean VA; requisition includes San Francisco.

Tier: Enterprise platform.
Rubric: Company 7/12 (AI 2, Stage 1, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Role 9/15 (Comp 2, Scope 2, Craft 2, AI 2, Portfolio 1).
Signals: Posted August 21 (day 14). Daniela Jorge, SVP and CDO, is the executive buyer.
Verdict: Ignore-until-trigger. Both company (7) and role (9) score below Watch thresholds. The role is AI operating model and workforce capability work, not product design. Trigger: a product-design-specific Director or Staff posting appears under the CDO org.

6. Remaining Watch — fintech, consumer, and developer tools

Seven companies that clear Watch on role score but have weaker company fundamentals, unresolved clocks, or limited equity upside. Coinbase and Nova Credit have the stronger equity stories among the private entries. TurbineOne is the outlier — defense tech with a clearance requirement that may be a hard blocker. Worth applying to if you have bandwidth after the priority entries.

26. Coinbase. Crypto exchange and financial services platform — trading, custody, staking, and consumer financial products. Staff Product Designer, Financial Services Lead.

Stage / Size / Capital: Public (COIN).
Offices: Remote-first.
Value chain: Vertically integrated crypto financial services — exchange, custody, staking, and financial products under one platform.
Best at: Regulatory-first crypto — building financial products that work within compliance frameworks.
Signals: Posted August 8 (day 27). $207K–$244K. Watch band.
Tier: Enterprise platform. Tier Playbook: Read enterprise playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 6/12 (AI 1, Stage 1, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Role 11/15 (Comp 3, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 1, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: Financial services product design at strategic IC scope. Lead with Allē (BCG DV) — designing financial value exchange at consumer scale (3.2× redemption, $42 CAC). The dual-surface redesign (provider + consumer) maps to Coinbase's multi-audience challenge.
Verdict: Watch (role 11). Day 27 — mid-Watch band. Public company, limited equity. No design leadership contact established — identify VP Product Design or Head of Design via LinkedIn before outreach.

27. Nova Credit. Alternative credit data platform — turns international financial history into FCRA-compliant US lending intelligence. Staff Product Designer.

Stage / Size / Capital: Series D, $35M disclosed.
Offices: NYC HQ with SF office; role is remote.
Value chain: Midstream data infrastructure between international financial records and US lending decisions.
Best at: Making foreign credit history legible to US lenders — FCRA-compliant translation of alternative financial data.
Signals: Portfolio index records August 25. $197K–$240K + potential equity.
Tier: Growth-stage platform. Tier Playbook: Read growth-stage playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 7/12 (AI 1, Stage 2, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Role 11/15 (Comp 3, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 1, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: Making alternative financial data trustworthy to lenders — presenting a credit signal from a foreign financial system in a format that US underwriters trust enough to lend against. Lead with Thermo Fisher mySupply (BCG DV): data from multiple sources reconciled into a format that regulated decision-makers trust enough to act on. $20M+ margin proves the reconciliation worked.
Verdict: Watch (role 11). Reports to unnamed Head of Product; CEO Misha Esipov as fallback. Gap: identify the Head of Product before outreach.

28. ClickUp. Productivity and project management platform — docs, whiteboards, goals, time tracking, and project management in one product. Staff Product Designer.

Stage / Size / Capital: Private.
Offices: Distributed; US remote.
Value chain: Midstream productivity infrastructure competing with Asana, Monday, and Linear.
Best at: Feature breadth — consolidating docs, whiteboards, goals, time tracking, and project management into one platform.
Signals: Live. Clock unresolved. $185K–$235K.
Tier: Growth-stage platform. Tier Playbook: Read growth-stage playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 7/12 (AI 1, Stage 2, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Role 11/15 (Comp 3, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 1, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: Platform consolidation — making many tools feel like one coherent product. Red Cross (BCG DV): 6 systems to 1, preserving each system's workflow requirements while creating a unified experience. Lower priority than Linear — same category, weaker company score, less design-led culture.
Verdict: Watch (role 11). No design leadership contact established — identify VP Design or Head of Product Design via LinkedIn before outreach.

29. Hims & Hers. Telehealth and wellness platform — prescriptions, pharmacy fulfillment, and ongoing care for sensitive health conditions. Staff Product Designer, Core Treatments.

Stage / Size / Capital: Public (HIMS).
Offices: Remote-first.
Value chain: Vertically integrated telehealth — prescriptions, pharmacy fulfillment, and ongoing care in one consumer experience.
Best at: Direct-to-consumer healthcare that removes the stigma barrier — making sensitive health conditions feel approachable through design.
Signals: Live. Clock unresolved. Comp not disclosed.
Tier: Enterprise platform. Tier Playbook: Read enterprise playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 6/12 (AI 1, Stage 1, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Role 10/15 (Comp 2, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 1, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: Consumer health product design where trust and approachability drive adoption. Equinox+ (BCG DV): consumer wellness product where the design challenge was making a premium experience feel accessible (0 to MVP in 3 months, 4.8 stars). Apply via Ashby only if healthcare portfolio value is a priority.
Verdict: Watch (role 10, barely). Public company, limited equity. No design leadership contact established — identify Head of Product Design via LinkedIn before outreach.

30. GitLab. All-remote DevOps platform — the platform developers use to build, test, and deploy software. Staff Product Designer, Knowledge Graph.

Stage / Size / Capital: Public (GTLB).
Offices: All-remote.
Value chain: Upstream DevOps infrastructure — source control, CI/CD, security scanning, and deployment in one platform.
Best at: All-in-one DevOps with all-remote operations.
Signals: Live. Clock unresolved. $165K–$200K.
Tier: Enterprise platform. Tier Playbook: Read enterprise playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 6/12 (AI 1, Stage 1, Design 2, Trajectory 2) | Role 10/15 (Comp 2, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 1, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: Knowledge graph design for developer workflows — making relationships between code, issues, and deployments visible and navigable. The Alibaba.com redesign involved making complex relational data (buyers, suppliers, products, transactions) navigable at enterprise scale. The challenge is similar: dense relational data, expert users, high information density.
Verdict: Watch (role 10). Low comp ceiling. GitLab's public handbook may identify the UX department head; check before outreach.

31. OpenSea. NFT marketplace — the consumer-facing layer where digital assets are discovered, bought, and sold. Staff Product Designer.

Stage / Size / Capital: Private.
Offices: Remote-US/EU.
Value chain: Downstream marketplace — consumer-facing trading venue for digital assets.
Best at: Marketplace liquidity for digital assets — the largest NFT trading venue by historical volume.
Signals: Observed live September 2. Clock unresolved. $175K–$275K + equity.
Tier: Growth-stage platform. Tier Playbook: Read growth-stage playbook before outreach.
Rubric: Company 5/12 (AI 0, Stage 2, Design 2, Trajectory 1) | Role 10/15 (Comp 3, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 0, Portfolio 2).
Portfolio match: Marketplace design where trust between anonymous parties drives transaction volume. The Alibaba.com B2B marketplace redesign is the structural analog — building buyer trust in a platform where the counterparty is unfamiliar (+20% transactions).
Verdict: Watch (role 10). Crypto market uncertainty limits trajectory score. No design leadership contact established — identify Head of Design or VP Product via LinkedIn before outreach.

32. TurbineOne. Defense tech — AI-powered intelligence analysis for military and government. Senior/Staff Product Designer.

Stage / Size / Capital: Private.
Offices: Remote; clearance eligibility required.
Value chain: Midstream defense intelligence — AI analysis layer between raw data and military decision-makers.
Best at: Making classified intelligence analysis faster through AI-powered workflows.
Signals: Observed live within the prior two weeks. Comp not disclosed.
Tier: Healthcare/Regulated. Tier Playbook: Read healthcare playbook before outreach. Defense tech with clearance requirements and high-consequence decision surfaces — the evaluation pattern emphasizes trust design, decision gates, and compliance constraints.
Rubric: Company 7/12 (AI 2, Stage 2, Design 2, Trajectory 1) | Role 10/15 (Comp 2, Scope 2, Craft 3, AI 2, Portfolio 1).
Portfolio match: High-consequence decision surfaces where the user must trust AI-generated analysis before acting on it. The Trust essay's Output Review applied to intelligence analysis. Lead with Thermo Fisher (BCG DV): decision surfaces where the stakes of acting on bad data have regulatory and operational consequences. Verify clearance eligibility before applying — this may be a hard blocker.
Verdict: Watch (role 10). No design leadership contact established — identify Head of Design or VP Product via LinkedIn before outreach.

7. Below threshold — live postings, not worth outreach time

Nine companies with live design postings that score below both rubric thresholds. Listed so you don't waste time researching them independently.

33. Kin Insurance. Remote-first home insurance. Staff Product Designer, Growth. $186K–$201K + equity. Applications close September 17. Ignore — comp ceiling ($201K) is low. Trigger: Director+ posting or comp band increase.

34. Cherry. Healthcare financing, remote-US. Senior Staff Product Designer. Comp not disclosed. Ignore — below both thresholds. Trigger: funding announcement or Director+ posting.

35. Smartsheet. Collaborative work management (PE-backed). Director, Product Design. Comp not disclosed. Ignore — below role threshold. Trigger: comp disclosure or design leadership hire.

36. Outreach. Sales engagement platform, Seattle/remote. Staff Product Designer. $150K–$200K. Ignore — comp below floor.

37. Phantom. Crypto wallet, distributed. Staff Product Designer, Growth. Comp not disclosed. Ignore — thin company data, no AI surface.

38. Jump. Crypto trading infrastructure, remote-US. Senior/Staff Product Designer. $140K–$200K. Ignore — comp below floor.

39. Spike Labs. AI productivity tools, remote. Staff Product Designer. $150K–$200K. Ignore — comp below floor.

40. General Motors. Automotive, Detroit/remote. Staff Product Designer, Systems and UX. Comp not disclosed. Ignore — public company, design as delivery function.

41. Humana. Public healthcare/insurance, Louisville/remote. Three Director mandates (Emerging Products, Channels, Onboarding), 3–10 days old. Channels: $138K–$191K. Ignore — comp significantly below floor for Director level. Three simultaneous Director postings at low comp usually means the company is leveling Director where other organizations would level Senior.

8. Geographic mismatch — monitor for remote policy change

Nine companies with roles that currently require locations incompatible with Bay Area residence. Suno would score Act if geography cleared — it's the highest-value blocked entry in the scan.

42. Suno. AI music generation. Senior/Staff Product Designer. Requires five-day onsite in NYC or LA. Series D, $5.4B valuation. Banu Guler, CDO. Would score Act if geography cleared — AI centrality 3, Stage 3, Design 3, Trajectory 3. Trigger: remote policy change or Bay Area office opens.

43. Noom. Weight management and health. Director of Product Design, Noom Med. Requires hybrid in Princeton or New York. Cecilia Farooqi, VP of Product Design, joined March 17. Trigger: role reposted as remote-US, or a separate Bay-accessible design posting appears.

44. Brightline. Pediatric mental health, NYC. Senior/Staff Product Designer. Remote New York only. Trigger: role reposted as remote-US.

45. XBOW. Defense tech. Senior/Staff Product Designer. US East Coast / EST preference. Indexed May 14 — also decayed past 43 days. Trigger: new posting with remote-US eligibility.

46. Fanatics. Sports commerce. Staff Product Designer. New York only. Trigger: remote-US posting.

47. Scale AI. AI data infrastructure. Staff Product Designer, Public Sector. NYC/DC, forward-deployed. Trigger: remote-US design posting outside public sector.

48. Warner Bros. Discovery. Media. Staff Product Designer, Newsroom. Hybrid in NYC, DC, Atlanta, Seattle, LA, or Bellevue — Bay Area not listed. Trigger: Bay Area added to location list.

49. Sydecar. Fund administration platform. Staff Product Designer. Geographic eligibility unresolved — company mentions SF, NYC, Seattle hubs plus remote flexibility, but the specific role doesn't confirm Bay Area remote. Trigger: explicit Bay Area eligibility confirmed.

50. Wellsheet. Clinical intelligence platform. Staff Product Designer. Conflicting metadata — "NYC Office – Hybrid" and "remote" location type. Trigger: explicit remote-US confirmation.

9. Decayed signals — worth monitoring for repost

Nine companies whose anchoring signals have crossed the 43-day threshold but whose company fundamentals would score Watch or higher if a fresh signal appeared. The organizational need likely persists — the timing advantage has expired.

51. Gusto. HR and payroll platform. Head of Design posting remains live but has crossed 43 days. The mandate — building the design function at a $10B+ company — hasn't changed. Trigger: repost with new job ID, or a new Director+ design posting appears alongside the Head role.

52. Amplitude. Product analytics platform. Head of Product Design posting remains live, crossed 43 days. Trigger: repost or new design leadership posting.

53. Abridge. AI medical documentation. Staff Product Designer remains live, crossed 43 days. Strong company (AI-native healthcare) but signal is stale. Trigger: repost or new design posting.

54. Netflix. Streaming platform. Several remote-US Staff roles remain live, but employer pages only show "30+ Days Ago." Without a recoverable original date, they can't receive a Watch designation. Trigger: new posting with a verifiable date, or a design leadership hire that signals org investment.

55. Dropbox. Cloud storage and productivity. Aggregate board still claims remote-US design openings, but the specific Director URL returned 404. Trigger: new Director or Staff posting with a live direct link.

56. Microsoft. The previously cited Principal Design Systems requisition appears in a specialist index but the specific employer application page could not be independently resolved. Trigger: direct Microsoft careers link to a specific, open design leadership requisition.

57. Fieldguide. AI-powered audit platform. Staff Product Designer remains live but was already at day 22 on August 1 — well past 43 days now. Trigger: repost with new ID.

58. Remote. Global HR platform. Senior Staff Product Designer remains live but Index Ventures records June 27 as last publication date — 69 days old. Trigger: repost or new design leadership posting.

59. Boulevard. Salon and spa management platform. Board still lists a remote Staff role, but the only recoverable dated artifact originated in March. Trigger: fresh posting with verifiable date.

10. Skip — decayed and below threshold

Five companies that are both decayed past signal windows and below rubric thresholds, or structurally disqualified.

60. Brex. Spend management platform — acquired by Capital One, completed April 7. The Staff posting remains live but the pre-IPO equity premise is gone. Trigger: Capital One posts a design role specifically within the Brex product org with meaningful scope.

61. Safelite. Auto glass repair, Columbus/remote. Director, Digital Product Design. 30+ days. Comp not disclosed. Company score 4/12.

62. Shipt. Delivery platform (Target subsidiary), Birmingham/hybrid. Director of Product Design. $188K–$230K. 30+ days. Company score 4/12.

63. Etsy. Marketplace, Brooklyn/remote. Director, Product Design, Inventory and Senior Staff. Both 30+ days. Company score 4/12, plateauing trajectory.

64. A+E Global Media. Media company, NYC. Director, Product Design. Day 29. Company score 3/12.

This scan produced 1 Act, 30 Watch, 10 Ignore-until-trigger (including 9 below threshold), 9 geographic mismatch, 9 decayed worth monitoring, and 5 Skip.

Your week, ranked

Vanta first — apply and reach Epling before the weekend. Gray Swan AI second — highest role score in the scan, reach McDermott. Replicant third — investigate the "attempted twice" story before committing. Instrumentl fourth — named buyer, named sponsor, day 1 posting. Linear fifth — verify comp; if it clears $220K with equity, this upgrades to Act. Workiva sixth — September 7 deadline, apply today or drop it.

Things to follow up on...

Anthropic's reappearing requisition: The Core Apps Product Designer role disappeared from Anthropic's Greenhouse page on September 2 and returned under the same job ID on September 4, which means renewed visibility but not a confirmed fresh slate — worth monitoring daily for a title change or new ID that would signal a genuine reset.
Linear's $2.5B tender offer: Linear announced an employee tender offer on August 26 at twice its Series C valuation, which strengthens the equity case but makes the undisclosed compensation gap the only thing standing between Watch and Act.
Hightouch's title rename: The Staff Product Designer role at Hightouch now reads "AI Creative Tools" on its Greenhouse page, a mid-search title change that usually signals a refined mandate and potentially a reset candidate pool — check whether the posting date also updated.
Affirm's Agentic Experiences mandate: Affirm posted a dedicated Staff Product Designer, Agentic Experiences role alongside its existing Staff opening, creating a two-role cluster that suggests active investment in AI-native consumer financial surfaces at a public company.