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### **About us**

Character’s mission is to give everyone on earth access to their own personalized intelligence that helps them enhance and live their best lives.

Achieving our mission will require solving ambitious technical challenges, including engineering, research, and design, and we are assembling a world-class team to do so. Our founding team includes AI pioneers from Google Brain and Meta Research whose research has led to major breakthroughs in natural language understanding and dialog applications including co-inventing the Transformer LLM architecture and Google’s [LaMDA](https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/).

### **About the role**

We are building the future of open-ended interactions between people and intelligent agents. This requires rethinking design, user interfaces, and interactions from first principles.

We are looking for an experienced and talented product designer who is genuinely excited about this challenge and helping to shape and define what this future might look like and to join us in our mission.

In this position, you’ll own multiple product areas and be responsible to help shape product directions, prototype new concepts, and own design end-to-end through implementation. You’ll be comfortable balancing insights from users, data, and product vision to craft coherent and elegant solutions that bring the most value to users. You’ll collaborate closely with the leadership team, product engineering and research & data science to execute on important initiatives as well as work with other functions including marketing and community to deliver your work to users in the most impactful way possible. There are unlimited unique and exciting challenges at Character that require someone with natural product & UX sense, technical aptitude, great taste and craft.

**What you’ll do:**

* Develop high-fidelity user interfaces and user experience designs across desktop and mobile

* Collaborate closely with engineers, research science, leadership, marketing, community and other partners.

* Manage multiple ongoing projects & initiatives, and effectively prioritize work in a fast-paced and quickly changing environment.

* Help to continue to develop, maintain, and evolve Character’s brand, design system and language.

* Help establish a culture and development processes for best in class product design and quality.

* Communicate and craft every detail of new product features from idea to user experience, to pixel-perfect execution.

**Requirements:**

* 7+ years of experience as a UI/UX designer with at least 3 years on consumer-facing software applications.

* Demonstrated portfolio of shipping amazing experiences that have made a clear and significant impact on consumer and business metrics.

* Excellent visual, UI, and interaction skills

* Strong communication and collaboration skills, such as the ability to communicate design concepts and processes to team members and stakeholders and receive feedback

* Track record of working independently in large ambiguous areas and can balance between craft, speed, and user value.

This role is in-person at our new office in Palo Alto

Character is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We value diversity and encourage applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply.

Senior - Staff Product Designer

### About us

Character’s mission is to empower everyone with AGI. Our vision is to enable people with our technology so that they can use [Character.AI](http://character.ai/) any moment of any day.

[Character.AI](http://character.ai/) is one of the world’s leading personal AI platforms. Founded in 2021 by AI pioneers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, [Character.AI](http://character.ai/) is a full-stack AI company with a globally scaled direct-to-consumer platform. As of 2023 that platform was #2 in the space in user engagement. [Character.AI](http://character.ai/) is uniquely centered around people, letting users personalize their experience by interacting with AI “Characters.” The company achieved unicorn status in 2023 and was named Google Play’s AI App of the Year.

Noam co-invented the key tech powering LLMs and was recently named to TIME100’s Most Influential People in AI list. TIME called him “one of the most important and impactful people of the space’s past, present, and future.” Daniel created and led LaMDA, the breakthrough conversational tech project currently powering Bard.

To learn more, please visit [beta.character.ai](http://beta.character.ai/).

### **About the role**

We are building the future of open-ended interactions between people and intelligent dialog agents. This requires rethinking design, user interfaces, workflows and interactivity from first principles. We’re looking for a Senior/Staff level Design Engineer who is genuinely excited about this future and can make significant contributions to our front-end development efforts.  If you are a skilled software engineer with a deep passion for front end development, design, craft, and you thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

**Responsibilities:**

* Develop highly performant, visually appealing, and user-friendly interfaces that push the boundaries of what's possible.

* Enhance and refine our user interface, focusing on engaging our users by fulfilling their needs, desires, and expectations.

* Collaborate closely with the design team to translate visionary concepts into tangible user experiences and product interfaces.

* Establish, evolve, and maintain design foundations, systems, and patterns for the team, setting the bar for product consistency and quality.

* Collaborate with others to define and implement new product features and design patterns

* Use your expertise with Front End technology and tools to create a positive and engaging experience.

**Job Requirements:**

* 5+ years of experience as a Front-End or Full-Stack Software Engineer with a strong focus on user experience and design

* At least 2 years of experience with React, alongside proficiency in other JS frameworks and libraries, is also required.

* React native experience is highly preferred

* Demonstrated experience with UI/UX design, building and maintaining component and design systems, motion interactions and animations

* Passionate about the pixels, an exceptional eye for detail, and a focus on craft and polish

* Deep understanding of Typescript, Javascript CSS, Tailwind, HTML, and modern front end design patterns and best practices.

* Experience with front end development of rapidly scaling consumer-facing applications with a culture for great products and design is highly desired.

* Proven ability to work in a fast-paced development environment and deliver timely results.

* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are also required

Character is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We value diversity and encourage applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply.

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