Product Designer
Tavus is an AI research lab and operating company focused on Human Computing, offering real-time human-like AI PALs, multimodal models, developer APIs, and a no-code PAL Maker.
About Tavus
Tavus builds foundational AI models for perception, conversational understanding, voice, and human rendering. Its current offerings include the Conversational Video Interface developer API, PAL Maker for no-code AI-human creation and deployment, and managed enterprise PAL solutions for use cases such as recruiting, healthcare, sales, education, and onboarding.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Own and grow Tavus's design system across tokens, components, themes, patterns, documentation, and contribution practices. Partner with frontend engineers to ensure faithful implementation, elevate visual and motion craft, drive adoption, and eventually take ownership of a product area.
Requirements
- 6+ years of product design experience with strong UX judgment.
- Exceptional visual design skills in typography, color, layout, spacing, and detail.
- Motion design experience.
- Experience building and governing design systems at scale.
- Examples of design systems architected and evolved.
- Ability to articulate and defend design decisions and outcomes.
- Comfort working close to code, reviewing implementation, and preventing design-to-build drift.
- Ability to operate with minimal specifications and shifting priorities in a startup environment.
Responsibilities
- Define token architecture, component structure, and theming models for scalable use across products and surfaces.
- Establish design-system standards, documentation, and contribution practices.
- Partner with frontend engineers to ensure faithful and effective implementation.
- Apply meticulous visual, interaction, motion, and micro-interaction craft to components and patterns.
- Build artifacts, documentation, and relationships that drive adoption among designers, engineers, and marketers.
Benefits
- Flexible work schedule
- Unlimited PTO
- Competitive healthcare
- Gear stipends