Head of Design

OpenClaw Foundation • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

The OpenClaw Foundation is seeking a Head of Design to define the design vision, systems, and experiences that shape how people interact with AI agents. This foundational, highly hands-on role calls for a design leader with exceptional taste and a record of building and shipping best-in-class products from zero to one.

The Head of Design will establish a cohesive design language across the OpenClaw ecosystem, develop scalable design systems, and create new interaction paradigms for how people collaborate with, delegate to, and maintain control over AI agents. The role operates at the intersection of product strategy, interaction design, visual design, and engineering, spanning long-term vision, rapid prototyping, and production-ready execution.

The role sets the design quality bar across consumer experiences, developer tools, and agent interfaces, while creating systems that enable the broader open source ecosystem to build cohesive products. The OpenClaw Foundation stewards an open source AI agent project and works to advance research, maintain and harden its codebase, and establish interoperability standards for the agent era. Its mission emphasizes open, safe AI that is owned by the individuals and communities who use it.

Requirements

• A proven track record of building and shipping exceptional zero-to-one products, with clear ownership from early concept through launch.
• Exceptional design taste, visual craft, and a strong point of view on the future of software and human-computer interaction.
• Deep expertise in design systems, including building scalable component libraries, interaction patterns, and visual languages from the ground up.
• Ability to combine strategic vision with hands-on execution, moving between product direction, rapid prototyping, and pixel-level detail.
• Strong interaction design and systems thinking, including the ability to simplify complex technical capabilities into intuitive user experiences.
• Technical fluency and a history of close collaboration with engineering teams to ship polished, production-ready products.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and influencing direction without relying on large teams or heavy processes.
• A compelling portfolio demonstrating product impact, design excellence, and end-to-end ownership.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing AI-native products, autonomous agents, assistants, or emerging interaction models.
• Experience building developer tools, technical platforms, or infrastructure products.
• Contributions to open source projects or experience designing for distributed communities.
• Familiarity with agent identity, permissions, privacy, security, or interoperability.
• Experience with front-end development or code-based prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Establish a distinctive design philosophy and product direction for OpenClaw, setting a high bar for craft, usability, and visual quality.
• Lead products from concept through prototyping, implementation, and launch, translating emerging AI capabilities into intuitive, best-in-class experiences.
• Build and evolve shared components, design tokens, interaction patterns, and visual standards that scale across products and platforms.
• Design new paradigms for delegation, memory, permissions, identity, trust, and human-agent collaboration.
• Personally drive product design, visual exploration, prototyping, and implementation details, partnering directly with engineers.
• Work with Foundation leadership, researchers, and engineers to identify opportunities, prioritize initiatives, and translate ambitious ideas into shipped products.
• Establish principles and reusable tools that help contributors and third-party developers build consistent, high-quality experiences across the ecosystem.

What This Job Offers

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