Design Lead — Agentic AI Platform

DesignX; Montreal; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full medical, dental, and vision

Meaningful equity

Fully remote with occasional in-person

Job summary

Awear is building the next generation of computing with an agent-first, always-on AI platform. We’re a stealth-mode startup seeking our first Design Lead to define how users interact when there are no apps, menus, or conventions to fall back on.

You’ll own the interaction model across mobile and wearable experiences, work directly with the CPO, and craft user flows, patterns, and a scalable design system. This is a hands-on role with close collaboration across iOS, Android, and AI teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of UX and product design experience with a strong portfolio demonstrating interaction design depth — not just visual polish
• Proven experience designing for novel or unconventional interaction paradigms — voice interfaces, ambient computing, conversational AI, wearables, or AR are all directly relevant
• Strong systems thinking — you design interaction patterns that scale, not one-off screens
• Hands‑on prototyping skills — Figma, ProtoPie, Framer, or equivalent. You build prototypes that feel real enough to generate genuine user reactions
• Experience designing for mobile platforms — deep understanding of iOS and Android interaction conventions, and equal comfort knowing when to break them
• Comfort working in ambiguity — you will be designing for a product category that does not yet have established conventions and you need to thrive in that environment rather than wait for clarity that will not come
• Strong written English and proven ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams in a remote environment
• Strong plus: experience designing for wearable or AR form factors; zero‑UI or voice‑first interaction design; designing trust and permission flows for always‑on or ambient applications; consumer AI product experience; familiarity with on‑device AI capabilities and constraints

Responsibilities

• Define the agent-first, always-on AI interaction experience.
• Own the interaction model across mobile app and wearable platform; design user flows, patterns, and frameworks.
• Hands-on wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and interaction specifications.
• Collaborate closely with iOS, Android, and AI engineering teams to ensure buildable designs.
• We actively use AI tools across our team and you’ll contribute POVs on their effective use.

Skills

UX design

Product design

Prototyping

Mobile design

Wearables

AR

Systems thinking

Written English

Remote collaboration

Tools

Figma

ProtoPie

Framer

Job description

We're building the operating system for the next generation of computing — one where AI agents replace apps and your technology finally works for you instead of the other way around.

We're a stealth-mode startup with a world-class founding team with deep roots in consumer AI, extended reality, and wearable technology — including founders of some of the most recognizable hardware and software platforms of the last decade. We're backed by strategic partnerships with leading silicon and manufacturing companies, and we're hiring our first designer to define the interaction language of a platform that has never existed before.

This is not a role where you execute someone else's vision. You will define what it means to interact with always-on AI when there are no apps, no menus, and no conventions to fall back on.

Additional product details shared under NDA.

What We Offer

• Salary: competitive depending on experience
• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Fully remote with occasional in-person time in Silicon Valley or Paris for key milestones

Awear is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Key Responsibilities

The hardest design problem in consumer technology right now is also the one nobody has solved yet — what does an agent-first, always-on AI experience actually feel like to use?

As our first Design Lead you will own those solutions. You will work directly with the CPO to define the interaction model across our mobile app and our wearable platform — designing user flows, interaction patterns, and experience frameworks for a paradigm that has almost no reference points in the existing design canon. You will be the person who makes our platform thesis felt by users, not just understood by them.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You will be doing the work — wireframes, prototypes, user flows, interaction specifications — not managing a team of designers. You will collaborate closely with the iOS, Android, and AI engineering teams to ensure that what you design can be built, and that what gets built matches what you designed.

We actively use AI tools across our team — including AI design and development tools — and expect someone who has a genuine point of view on how to use them well.

What You'll Design

• The core interaction model for our agentic platform — defining what it means to interact with an always-on AI agent
• End-to-end user flows for the mobile app — from first launch and onboarding through to daily habitual use, with particular attention to the moments where the agent paradigm needs to earn the user’s trust
• The companion mode experience — the in-app preview that gives early mobile users a window into what the platform will feel like as a wearable, before the hardware ships
• Interaction patterns for wearable constraints — designing for a form factor with no touchscreen, limited display real estate, and an interaction vocabulary that must feel natural without any physical interface
• Onboarding and trust architecture — the flows that introduce a genuinely novel paradigm to users who have never experienced anything like it, and earn their permission to be always-on
• A design system and component library — the reusable patterns and specifications that let the engineering team build consistently and let the design language scale as the platform grows
• Prototype and test rapidly — using high-fidelity prototypes to validate interaction hypotheses with real users before committing them to production code

Ideal Experience

• 5+ years of UX and product design experience with a strong portfolio demonstrating interaction design depth — not just visual polish
• Proven experience designing for novel or unconventional interaction paradigms — voice interfaces, ambient computing, conversational AI, wearables, or AR are all directly relevant
• Strong systems thinking — you design interaction patterns that scale, not one-off screens
• Hands‑on prototyping skills — Figma, ProtoPie, Framer, or equivalent. You build prototypes that feel real enough to generate genuine user reactions
• Experience designing for mobile platforms — deep understanding of iOS and Android interaction conventions, and equal comfort knowing when to break them
• Comfort working in ambiguity — you will be designing for a product category that does not yet have established conventions and you need to thrive in that environment rather than wait for clarity that will not come
• Strong written English and proven ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams in a remote environment
• Strong plus: experience designing for wearable or AR form factors; zero‑UI or voice‑first interaction design; designing trust and permission flows for always‑on or ambient applications; consumer AI product experience; familiarity with on‑device AI capabilities and constraints