Lead Product Designer

Sandbar; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, and dental benefits

Unlimited PTO and sick time

Early stage equity

Job summary

A leading interface company in New York City is seeking a Lead Product Designer to shape the user experience of Stream, a new conversational interface. This role involves comprehensive design across visual, AI, and interaction elements, while working collaboratively with engineers and product teams. Ideal candidates will have experience in developing design systems for various platforms, passion for language models, and a portfolio showcasing their work. Attractive benefits include health insurance, unlimited PTO, and early-stage equity, with competitive compensation ranging from $170K to $220K.

Qualifications

• Portfolio of prior work is required.
• Experiences with novel form factors, inputs, audio, or vision are a plus.
• Strong attention to detail and humanistic approach.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product design spanning visual, AI, and interaction design.
• Ideate, prototype, and evaluate novel software features.
• Work closely with engineers to scope and implement new experiences.

Skills

Experience developing design systems spanning multiple platforms

Experience shipping iOS-based apps

Demonstrated passion for large language models

Experience with novel form factors

Experience in non-software design disciplines

Job description

About Sandbar

Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to augment individuals in an agentic world—to think, act, and move freely. Our team has built software, machine learning, and hardware products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Google, Apple, Fitbit, Peloton, and Equinox.

Our first product, Stream, is a new human-agent interface—a private voice ring and conversational computer. Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, & Wired, and begins shipping in Summer “26.

Join us in creating a new interface for self-augmentation.

Lead Product Designer

We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer for Stream, a new conversational interface. This role touches every aspect of our end-user experience—including UI/UX, multimodal interactions, agentic control, information representation, personality, and more. You’ll work closely with software engineers, machine learning engineers, and founders to lead the design of a new computer.

This role is perfect for someone with wide vision and minute attention to detail, who is humanistic and technical, who is experienced and yet continually ready to start over.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product design spanning visual, AI, and interaction design
• Ideate, prototype, and evaluate novel software features
• Work closely with engineers and product to scope and implement new experiences

Qualifications

• Experience developing design systems spanning multiple platforms
• Experience shipping iOS-based apps is required
• Demonstrated passion and enthusiasm for large language models
• Experience with novel form factors, inputs, audio, or vision are a plus
• Experience in non-software design disciplines such as architecture or industrial design is a plus
• Portfolio of prior work is required

FTE Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental benefits
• Unlimited PTO and sick time
• Early stage equity

Compensation Range: $170K - $220K