AI Experience Designer

Tolan • San Francisco, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Tolan is an Embodied Companion—a cute AI alien you talk with naturally, like a friend. Tolans have their own personality and preferences, and over time form memories about you, your life, and your shared friendship. We're an experienced team that previously founded Even, acquired for $300M in 2022. Tolan is backed by the designers and founders behind Instagram, Retro, Behance, Vimeo, and Notion. Our team works hard, with an emphasis on autonomy and ownership. We're building together in-person in downtown SF. The Applied AI Team is responsible for the experiments, evals, and prompts that power the product and bring Tolans to life. Your colleagues include behavioral researchers, science fiction writers, game designers, and operators with experience scaling systems to serve millions of users.

Requirements

• A builder and creative who uses AI to bring ideas into the world.
• Actively exploring AI as a creative medium.
• Evidence of making things.
• A genuine creative practice—writing, art, game design, etc.
• Default to building when wanting to learn something new.
• Think in systems—always looking for ways to automate or improve workflows.
• Experience creating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

Nice To Haves

• Shipped side projects.
• Hacked together tools for your own workflow.
• Spent weekends seeing what you could get an LLM to do.
• Unusual background (e.g., writers who learned to vibe code, engineers who write fiction, people who've built weird things and put them on the internet).

Responsibilities

• Craft, deploy, and evaluate the prompts that shape Tolan personality and behavior.
• Work closely with design and engineering to develop new features and tune existing ones.
• Engage in creative writing, AI-assisted prompt development/deployment, and testing via both vibes and evals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed