Visual Designer

ActAI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

ActAI in New York, NY is seeking a talented visual/UI designer to shape the product's visual language across web and mobile. You will design patterns that clarify AI-driven content, convey system states, and communicate confidence and reliability within dynamic interfaces.

You will collaborate with product and UX teams to build a scalable design system, define visual standards for loading, error, and empty states, and ensure accessibility and legibility.

Qualifications

• Portfolio across web or mobile products.
• Strong typography, color, layout, and visual hierarchy.
• Proficiency in Figma and experience contributing to design systems.
• Ability to design for dynamic AI-generated content with varying length and format.
• Deep understanding of accessibility standards and legibility considerations.

Responsibilities

• Design the visual language, design system, and UI components for ActAI's product across web and mobile.
• Create visual patterns to help users parse AI-generated content, understand system states, and gauge confidence and reliability signals.
• Design for information density and hierarchy in AI interfaces with dynamic content.
• Collaborate with product and UX designers to translate interaction flows into polished, accessible visuals.
• Build and maintain a design system that supports speed, consistency, and clarity.
• Define visual standards for error, empty, loading, and task states and AI outputs.
• Contribute visual assets and design specs for engineers to implement accurately.
• Make AI-heavy interfaces feel clear and structured without overwhelming users.

Skills

UI design

Design systems

Typography

Color theory

Layout & hierarchy

Accessibility

Collaboration

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

Figma

Job description

There are over 5 billion users using basic applications today such email, notes, tasks, calendar and they're not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications for anyone in the world, who are not used to complex prompting. We aim to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows, with minimal prompting.

Our product focuses on achieving high reliability for long-running workflows, persistent context, and real-world task completion. We believe products will greatly reduce hallucinations.

Our objective is to organise anyone's life, allowing us all to spend time on valuable and meaningful things.

Role

You will shape the visual language of ActAI's product. In AI applications, visual design must do more than look polished. It must help users understand dynamic content, system behavior, reliability signals, and complex AI-driven workflows.

This role supports HCI by making the interface clearer, more readable, and easier to trust.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design the visual language, design system, and UI components for ActAI's product across web and mobile.
• Create visual patterns that help users parse AI-generated content, distinguish system states, and understand confidence and reliability signals.
• Design for information density and hierarchy in AI interfaces where content is dynamic, variable, and often uncertain.
• Work with product and UX designers to translate interaction flows into polished, accessible visual designs.
• Build and maintain a design system that supports speed, consistency, and clarity.
• Define visual standards for error states, empty states, loading states, task states, and AI-generated output.
• Contribute visual assets and design specs that engineers can implement accurately.
• Make AI-heavy interfaces feel clear and structured without overwhelming users.

What You Will Need

• Experience as a visual or UI designer with a portfolio across web or mobile products.
• Strong skills in typography, color, layout, and visual hierarchy.
• Proficiency in Figma and experience building or contributing to design systems.
• Ability to design for dynamic content where AI output varies in length, format, tone, and reliability.
• Understanding of accessibility standards and how to design for legibility and contrast.
• Comfort designing under ambiguity, with evolving product requirements.
• Experience working closely with product and UX designers in fast-moving teams.
• Awareness of how visual cues communicate AI system behavior, trust, and confidence.

How We Work

The best products today in the world were built by small, world class teams. We are a high talent density and hands-on team. We make decisions collectively, move at rapid speed, striking a balance between shipping high quality work and learning. Joining our team requires the ability to bring structure, exercise judgment, and execute independently. Our goal is to put in hands of our users a truly magical product