Product & Design Co-founder

Tangens is seeking a Product & Design Co-Founder to help shape its AI-native operating system into a product people love. The role partners directly with the CEO to set product vision, define core experiences, and lead product strategy, interaction design, development, validation, and cross-functional execution.

Responsibilities:

• Product strategy: Identify compelling use cases, define our early users, and prioritize the experiences that make Tangens valuable
• Interaction design: Invent intuitive ways for people to interact with AI-generated interfaces, applications, and workspaces
• Product development: Translate ambitious ideas into clear product requirements, prototypes, roadmaps, and engineering milestones
• Design direction: Establish the UX principles, component systems, and interaction patterns that guide our generative UI
• Product validation: Test experiences with real users, learn from feedback, and iterate quickly
• Cross-functional leadership: Work closely with engineering and creative design to ship cohesive, polished experiences

Requirements:

• Strong experience building and shipping consumer software, ideally from zero to one
• Exceptional product intuition and the ability to turn ambiguous ideas into concrete experiences
• Deep expertise in UX and interaction design, beyond visual aesthetics
• Experience defining product roadmaps, prioritizing features, and leading execution
• An understanding of what makes products intuitive, delightful, and habit-forming
• Technical fluency and the ability to collaborate with engineers on ambitious products
• The confidence to challenge assumptions, make difficult tradeoffs, and take ownership
• someone comfortable with early-stage startup risk and motivated by building a company over the long term
• We'd especially love to see examples of thoughtful interaction design, unconventional product ideas, or products you've brought to life with small teams