Founding Product Designer
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Founding Product Designer who will own the end-to-end user experience for Sekai's AI-driven consumer platform, shaping product DNA, visual language, and design system. Requires Mandarin and strong UX judgment.
About this role
Sekai is building the TikTok for mini apps — an AI-driven consumer platform where people create, remix, share, and play interactive content instantly.
We are a Series A company backed by Khosla, a16z, Mayfield, and A*, with $30M raised to date. We are remote-first across all positions and are looking for ambitious, AI-native builders who want to help shape the next generation of consumer social products.
About the Role
We are looking for our first design hire: a Founding Product Designer who can own the user experience end-to-end and raise the quality bar of the product.
This is not a supporting design role. We want someone who can act as a true UX owner — someone who can identify what feels broken or confusing, define better product experiences from first principles, and help shape the product DNA, visual language, and design system of the company.
The right person has strong product taste, excellent UX judgment, solid visual craft, and is highly AI-native. Mandarin Chinese is required for this role.
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end design across key product surfaces on mobile and web
Drive UX for major product flows and make clear product experience decisions
Improve the overall quality, clarity, and polish of the product
Define and evolve product DNA, visual language, interaction patterns, and design systems
Work closely with founders, product, and engineering to shape and ship new experiences
Use modern AI and design tools to explore, prototype, and iterate quickly
Requirements
2+ years of product design experience, ideally in consumer or mobile-first products
Strong UX judgment and product sense
Strong visual design skills and high taste level
Ability to design from scratch and bring structure to ambiguous problems
Strong systems thinking and experience building reusable patterns or design systems
High ownership and comfort working in a fast-moving startup
Comfortable working closely with engineers
Highly AI-native and comfortable using modern tools in daily workflow
Nice to Have
Experience with consumer social, creator, gaming, or AI products
Frontend or engineering background
Ability to prototype in code or implement light frontend work
Experience as an early or founding designer at a startup
Benefits
Competitive base salary + meaningful equity
Full health insurance
If you are excited about building at the frontier of AI, consumer social, and interactive entertainment, we would love to hear from you.
At Sekai, you will work with an AI-native team, move fast, own meaningful problems, and have the flexibility to explore new ideas from an early stage.
