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Design Technologist

San Francisco, CA

About Us

Imbue is a radically different AI company. We believe that data should belong to you, humans should come before technology, and everyone deserves to own a personal team of AI agents. We believe in a future of open agents that you can modify to do exactly what you want. 

We’re building a suite of tools to make tech serve humans, and making it open source.

Some first projects include:

  • Sculptor: An interface for programmers to run coding agents in parallel and stay in flow
  • mngr: A command-line tool for managing agents 
  • Vet: A standalone tool that catches AI coding mistakes and reviews full PRs 
  • Offload: A tool that automatically distributes your tests to run in isolated sandboxes 
  • Latchkey: A command-line tool to integrate local agents with third-party APIs 
  • Darwinian Evolver: A near-universal optimizer for code and agents

And we’re just getting started. If you’re excited about building a future with open agents, say hi! 

We're supported by investors like Nvidia, Simon Last (co-founder of Notion), and Eric Schmidt (former CEO of Google), with $200M raised at over $1B valuation.

Summary

In this role, you’ll help shape our products and design culture. We're still in the earlier stages of development, so you’ll have the ability to truly impact the product from a strategic design lens.
 
We are a close-knit, strong technical team focused on building beautiful and intuitive products. We believe intelligent AI systems have the potential to give people more freedom, dignity, and agency to do the things they love. As such, we seek to build in a human-centered way to reimagine our relationship with technology.
 
In this role, you’ll own the product user experience end-to-end, contributing to product strategy, running design sprints, and crafting a vision to ensure simple and elegant designs.

Example Projects

  • Collaborate often with engineers to design and ship high quality product improvements
  • Conduct user research and help synthesize user insights
  • Build prototypes while exploring new and creative user interfaces
  • Deliver and refine clear storytelling around product needs and opportunities
  • Contribute to overall strategy and decision-making about product direction
  • Create, collaborate, and iterate on flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals
  • Collaborate with product team to iterate on feature ideas quickly 
  • Build and refine our design system & component library to help deliver a cohesive product

You Are

  • A strong designer who has a high bar for their craft
  • Able break down complex problems and design simple, user focused solutions
  • Energized by understanding customer needs
  • A strategic thinker that has strong product sense and experience building 0-1
  • Able to iterate quickly on both high and low fidelity mock-ups and explore ideas quickly
  • Able to work independently without explicit directions

Compensation and Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits
  • Health insurance fully covered for you and your dependents
  • Lunch provided daily to onsite employees
  • $250 lifestyle stipend per month
  • Generous budget for self-improvement: coaching, courses, conferences, etc
  • Actively co-create and participate in a positive, intentional team culture
  • Spend time learning, reading papers, and deeply understanding prior work
  • Frequent team events, dinners, off-sites, and hanging out
  • Compensation packages are highly variable based on a variety of factors. If your salary requirements fall outside of the stated range, we still encourage you to apply. The salary range for this role is $150,000–$275,000 cash (plus equity)

How to Apply

We review every application personally, so tell us why you're excited about this role and what draws you to what we're building. We care more about the quality of your thinking than the length of your resume.
 

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