Founding Product Designer

Sekai is an AI-powered consumer platform where users can create, remix, and play interactive content. They are seeking a Founding Product Designer who can own the user experience end-to-end and raise the quality bar of the product.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end design across key product surfaces on mobile and web
• Drive UX for major product flows and make clear product experience decisions
• Improve the overall quality, clarity, and polish of the product
• Define and evolve product DNA, visual language, interaction patterns, and design systems
• Work closely with founders, product, and engineering to shape and ship new experiences
• Use modern AI and design tools to explore, prototype, and iterate quickly

Requirements:

• 2+ years of product design experience, ideally in consumer or mobile-first products
• Strong UX judgment and product sense
• Strong visual design skills and high taste level
• Ability to design from scratch and bring structure to ambiguous problems
• Strong systems thinking and experience building reusable patterns or design systems
• High ownership and comfort working in a fast-moving startup
• Fluent in Mandarin Chinese
• Comfortable working closely with engineers
• Highly AI-native and comfortable using modern tools in daily workflow
• Experience with consumer social, creator, gaming, or AI products
• Frontend or engineering background
• Ability to prototype in code or implement light frontend work
• Experience as an early or founding designer at a startup