Lead Product Designer

Sandbar • New York City, NY

18h • Onsite

About The Position

Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to augment individuals in an agentic world—to think, act, and move freely. Our team has built SW, ML, and HW products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Google, Apple, Fitbit, Peloton, and Equinox. Our first product, Stream, is a new human-agent interface—a private voice ring and conversational computer. Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, & Wired, and begins shipping in Summer '26. Join us in creating a new interface for self augmentation. An Open Letter: Design @ Sandbar About We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer for Stream, a new conversational interface. This role touches every aspect of our end-user experience—including UI/UX, multimodal interactions, agentic control, information representation, personality, and more. You’ll work closely with software engineers, machine learning engineers, and founders to lead the design of a new computer. This role is perfect for someone with wide vision and minute attention to detail, who is humanistic and technical, who is experienced and yet continually ready to start over.

Requirements

• Experience developing design systems spanning multiple platforms
• Experience shipping iOS-based apps is required
• Demonstrated passion and enthusiasm for large language models
• Portfolio of prior work is required

Nice To Haves

• Experience with novel form factors, inputs, audio, or vision are a plus
• Experience in non-software design disciplines such as architecture or industrial design is a plus

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product design spanning visual, AI, and interaction design
• Ideate, prototype, and evaluate novel software features
• Work closely with engineers and product to scope and implement new experiences

Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental benefits
• Unlimited PTO and sick time
• Early stage equity

What This Job Offers

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