Founding Designer for Autonomous AI Engines (UX & Brand)

Hone; Witney; On-site; GBP 106,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental insurance

Maternity and parental support

Relocation support

Job summary

Hone is building AI engines that own outcomes and learn over time. As the first designer, you will own the UX paradigms for multiplayer, asynchronous, and autonomous systems—covering product design end to end, the design system, and Hone's brand and marketing site.

You will shape interfaces that support engine onboarding, decision views, and reversible autonomy, working with engineers and product teams to make complex tech approachable and effective.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio of shipped product work with precise visual and interaction craft.
• Time at a fast-growing startup.
• You've built design from scratch: a design system, a brand, or both.
• You've shipped with engineers to real users and kept iterating after launch.
• You make complex, dense systems simple without hiding what matters.
• You use AI tools every day to prototype and ship, and still own every detail.
• You design for fun because you genuinely care about the craft.

Responsibilities

• Engine onboarding, from an empty workspace to an engine that understands its job.
• One view of an engine that zooms from its full structure down to a single live decision.
• Autonomy that people dial up over time, legibly and reversibly, from approving every action to bounded autonomy.
• Corrections that land at the right level: one item, one person's preferences, the team default, or the engine itself.
• Memory and permission views at org and personal level.
• How an engine asks for judgment: when to interrupt, whom, and with how much context.

Skills

Portfolio work

Startup experience

Design system

Brand development

UX collaboration

AI prototyping

Craft passion

Job description

Hone is building AI engines that own outcomes and learn over time. As the first designer, you will own the UX paradigms for multiplayer, asynchronous, and autonomous systems—covering product design end to end, the design system, and Hone's brand and marketing site.

You will shape interfaces that support engine onboarding, decision views, and reversible autonomy, working with engineers and product teams to make complex tech approachable and effective.