Head of Design
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 design leadership role will establish a cohesive design language across the OpenClaw ecosystem, develop scalable design systems, and invent interaction paradigms for how people collaborate with, delegate to, and maintain control over AI agents. The role operates across product strategy, interaction design, visual design, and engineering, moving from long-term vision to rapid prototyping and production-ready execution. The Head of Design will set design quality standards across consumer experiences, developer tools, and agent interfaces, and create systems that help the broader open source ecosystem build cohesive products.
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 experiences.
- Build and evolve shared design-system components, design tokens, interaction patterns, and visual standards across products and platforms.
- Design new paradigms for agent 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 ideas into shipped products.
- Establish principles and reusable tools that help contributors and third-party developers build consistent, high-quality experiences.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
