Anthropic is expanding its design team. Every product group is requesting more human designers.

This is the company that makes Claude. They're not doing this despite AI. They're doing it because of it.

Their head of design put it directly: they want Claude to be a sparring partner, not a passive tool. That requires designers who can push back, question, and hold a point of view. Designers who can shape how an AI behaves in edge cases, not just how it looks.

The skill that's becoming rare isn't Figma fluency. It's the ability to form and defend a design opinion when the AI disagrees with you.

Next time an AI tool hands you a polished answer, reject it once and write what you'd replace it with. That instinct - not your Figma fluency - is what Anthropic is hiring for.