Product Designer

Ando; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ando in San Francisco is seeking a founding product designer to revolutionize communication software by enhancing UX and collaboration between humans and AI. The role involves gathering references, developing core UI/UX, and iterating designs based on user feedback.

Ideal candidates will have a strong portfolio, recent experience with coding and agents, and a passion for prompt engineering. Join Ando to create a product that resonates with users and elevates the standard of digital communication.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio showcasing relevant design work.
• Experience working with LLMs in design projects.
• Ability to write code and use design tools effectively.

Responsibilities

• Gather references and build out core UI/UX.
• Review user analytics and iterate designs based on feedback.
• Enhance the design system and maintain design quality.

Skills

Strong portfolio

Experience designing around LLM functionality

Recent experience coding with agents

Love for prompt engineering

Tools

Design tooling

Job description

At Ando, we’re rebuilding messaging software for a human-agent collaborative era. It’s not enough for it to just “work” or be at parity with Slack. Ando needs to “feel” like it’s working alongside you - it needs to be fast, beautiful, helpful, and predictive. Ando needs to be good enough for our users to want to spend hours of their days in for their working lives, and convince their friends to do the same.

We’re looking for a founding product designer who has strong UX instincts & a very very good eye for details.

What we're doing at Ando

• Teams are already building agents and using them across Slack, email, and other tools. But these platforms weren't designed for human-AI collaboration. The answer isn't a better Slack though; we're rethinking communications from the ground up to support better collaboration between humans and agents.

About our brand & visual identity

• Architecture is a form of art people are compelled to experience simply by living in a city. Slack and team messaging are similarly inevitable surfaces in our daily digital lives. Our goal is to build a digital platform where people feel at ease spending much of their day.

• This company is named after Tadao Ando, a Japanese architect known for blending brutalism with light and glass. His work also captures a sense of peaceful silence (something we hope to achieve and use to differentiate from Slack), and his buildings often house Turrells, Kusamas, and more. All of this inspires the visual elements of our platform: minimal, unobtrusive product design that lets us focus on the layers on top, such as the rhythm of messaging, sounds, etc.

What you’ll do:

• Do a lot of reference-gathering, contribute to the buildout of our core UI / UX, mature our design system, write code, use the latest and best in design tooling, and most importantly, dogfood our product every day.

• Review user analytics and observe what users do, vs just what they say. Then iterate quickly on designs.

• Keep raising our bar for craft and help us make Ando a product people love.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio, with experience designing around LLM quirks and functionality.

• Recent experience coding with agents.

• Bonus points if you love prompt engineering.