Lead Product Designer
Sandbar · New York City
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Lead product designer owning end-to-end design for Stream across visual, AI, and interaction design, including multimodal input and agentic control. Works with software and ML engineers and founders to prototype and scope features. Requires shipped iOS app experience and a portfolio.
About Sandbar
Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to expand human thinking. Our team has built software, ML, hardware, and consumer products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Apple, Peloton, and Equinox.
Our first product is Stream, a private voice ring that extends your thinking. Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, Wired, and Time's Best Inventions of the Year.
Join us in creating technology that extends human thinking.
An Open Letter: Design @ Sandbar
About
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
- Company-sponsored 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO and sick time
- Early stage equity
Compensation: $165K - $230K
