Principal Designer

Tolan; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company in San Francisco seeks an experienced Product Designer to join its creative team. This role involves designing, building, and shipping features for an AI product, with focus on user interaction and design excellence. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in design project ownership and a proven track record in consumer-facing products. The ideal candidate thrives in autonomous settings and is passionate about innovative product design.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience owning design projects end-to-end.
• Experience with consumer-facing products from concept to production.
• Ability to thrive in autonomous and collaborative environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and ship features that enhance user interaction with AI.
• Set high design standards and make decisive design decisions.
• Create new interfaces at the frontier of AI.

Skills

Design project ownership

Consumer-facing product experience

Collaboration skills

Problem-solving

Visual design understanding

Job description

Overview

Tolan is an Embodied Companion — a cute AI alien you talk with naturally, like a friend. Tolans have their own personality and preferences, and over time form memories about you, your life, and your shared friendship.

We're an experienced team that previously founded Even, acquired for $300M in 2022. Tolan is backed by the designers and founders behind Instagram, Retro, Behance, Vimeo, and Notion.

Our team works hard, with an emphasis on autonomy and ownership. We’re building together in-person in downtown SF.

The role

We’re looking for a product designer to join our creative team to help shape the future of Tolan. You’ll work in a small team to design, build and ship features that push boundaries of our relationship with embodied AI. You’ll bring knowledge and creativity to everything you touch, from foundational product decisions to tiny moments of visual delight. In this role, you will set a high design bar, make decisive product and design decisions and ship new interfaces at the frontier of AI.

You might be a fit if you

• Have 5+ years of experience owning design projects end-to-end with little oversight
• Have worked on consumer facing products and taken them from concept to production, learned from real users and iterated quickly
• Thrive in highly autonomous and collaborative environments
• Care as much about solving product problems as you do about visuals
• Know when to follow patterns and when to break them to make something entirely new