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Visual & Motion Designer- Design the Human Layer of AI

This is not another product design role. This is a chance to define how humans feel AI.

We're building a new interface for computing -one where machines don't just respond, but see, hear, react, and connect like humans do. Real-time, face-to-face, emotionally aware interactions that finally make AI feel natural.

Think digital companions, AI employees, and conversational agents that live with you — not behind menus or chat boxes, but present, adaptive, and alive.

Backed by world-class investors and scaling fast, this team is shaping what human-computer interaction looks like for the next decade.

The Opportunity

We're looking for a Visual & Motion Designer who obsesses over interaction, movement, and systems — someone who can choreograph experiences, not just design screens.

You'll help define the motion language and kinetic identity of an always-on AI companion. From subtle micro-interactions to large-scale UI systems, your work will determine how this product moves, breathes, and exists across devices.

You'll partner closely with product and engineering in a small, senior, highly creative team that sweats the details and ships real things.

This role is hands-on, high-impact, and deeply product-driven

?? Based in the San Francisco Bay Area

What You'll Be Doing

• Define a scalable motion system
• Architect the visual physics and kinetic language of the "human layer" across web, mobile, and desktop — ensuring a unified, premium experience everywhere.
• Design ambient presence
• Solve how a persistent AI companion shifts seamlessly between active focus, passive awareness, and background states -without breaking user flow.
• Systematise interaction patterns
• Translate complex OS-level ideas (navigation, multitasking, windowing) into intuitive, native-feeling UI patterns across touch and pointer-based inputs.
• Design the stage for human connection
• Create and evolve the structural UI that supports conversational video — flexible containers, overlays, sidebars, and layouts that enhance human interaction rather than compete with it.
• Obsess over micro-interactions
• Every toggle, transition, and state change should feel intentional, responsive, and satisfying. You'll own the polish.

Who We're Looking For

• 4+ years of product design experience, with a strong focus on visual systems and motion design
• A proven track record of shipping complex, interactive products — not just static layouts
• A systems thinker who can scale design language across platforms and devices
• Deep comfort designing layered, spatial interfaces with dynamic states and density
• Strong instincts around status, feedback, and subtle signaling
• Technically fluent — confident collaborating with engineers to implement motion across web and native environments
• Thrives in ambiguity and exploration — excited by prompts like "How should an AI live on a phone?"

Why This Role Is Different

• You're not polishing someone else's vision -you're defining it
• You'll work on problems that don't have precedents or templates
• Your designs will directly shape how people emotionally experience AI
• Small team, massive surface area, real ownership

Culture & Benefits

You'll join a collaborative, diverse, and deeply supportive team that values craft, curiosity, and impact.

• Flexible working
• Unlimited PTO
• Competitive healthcare
• Gear stipends
• A culture built around learning, ownership, and shipping meaningful work

We don't hire "culture fits."

We hire culture creators

If you want to get your hands dirty and help make machines feel more human - this is the role.

Drop your resume. Let's build something entirely new.