Head of Design

<h2>About the Foundation</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">The OpenClaw Foundation is the steward of the world's largest open source AI agent project. Its mission is grounded in a foundational conviction: that AI must be open, safe, and ultimately owned by the individuals and communities who use it.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">The Foundation operates across three core mandates:</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Advancing research into the human-agent relationship while continuously evolving the OpenClaw platform;</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Maintaining and hardening the codebase to ensure security, reliability, and long-term sustainability;</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Establishing interoperability standards for the emerging agent era, defining how agents configure, communicate, establish trust, transact, and represent user identity across ecosystems.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em">Modeled after the governance structures that shaped the open web and modern computing infrastructure, the Foundation serves as a neutral, multi-stakeholder convening body — the equivalent of W3C or the Linux Foundation for the agentic AI era. Major laboratories and infrastructure providers collaborate under its umbrella on shared, vendor-neutral infrastructure, with no single organization controlling the roadmap or direction.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">The OpenClaw Foundation believes that individuals should have full sovereignty over their AI: their data, their interactions, and the behavior and personality of their agents. Open source is not incidental to this mission but central to it — code must remain free to use, modify, and build upon. The future of agentic AI will be defined by a broad, developer-driven community, not prescribed by any single commercial interest.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>The Role</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">The OpenClaw Foundation is seeking a Head of Design to define the design vision, systems, and experiences that shape how people interact with AI agents.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This is a foundational, highly hands-on role for a design leader with exceptional taste and a track record of building and shipping best-in-class products from zero to one. You'll establish a cohesive design language across the OpenClaw ecosystem, develop scalable design systems, and invent new interaction paradigms for how people collaborate with, delegate to, and maintain control over AI agents.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll operate at the intersection of product strategy, interaction design, visual design, and engineering — moving from long-term vision to rapid prototyping and production-ready execution. You'll set the bar for design quality across consumer experiences, developer tools, and agent interfaces, while creating systems that enable a broader open source ecosystem to build cohesive products.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>What You'll Do</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Define design vision: Establish a distinctive design philosophy and product direction for OpenClaw, setting a high bar for craft, usability, and visual quality.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build zero-to-one products: Lead products from concept through prototyping, implementation, and launch, translating emerging AI capabilities into intuitive, best-in-class experiences.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the design system: Build and evolve shared components, design tokens, interaction patterns, and visual standards that scale across products and platforms.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Invent agent interactions: Design new paradigms for delegation, memory, permissions, identity, trust, and human-agent collaboration.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Stay hands-on: Personally drive product design, visual exploration, prototyping, and implementation details, partnering directly with engineers to bring ideas to life.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Shape product strategy: Work with Foundation leadership, researchers, and engineers to identify opportunities, prioritize initiatives, and translate ambitious ideas into shipped products.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Scale design across the ecosystem: Establish principles and reusable tools that help contributors and third-party developers build consistent, high-quality experiences.</p></li></ul><h2>What We're Looking For</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A proven track record of building and shipping exceptional zero-to-one products, with clear ownership from early concept through launch.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Exceptional design taste, visual craft, and a strong point of view on the future of software and human-computer interaction.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Deep expertise in design systems, including building scalable component libraries, interaction patterns, and visual languages from the ground up.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">The ability to combine strategic vision with hands-on execution, moving fluidly between product direction, rapid prototyping, and pixel-level detail.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong interaction design and systems thinking, with the ability to simplify complex technical capabilities into intuitive user experiences.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Technical fluency and a history of close collaboration with engineering teams to ship polished, production-ready products.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and influencing direction without relying on large teams or heavy processes.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A compelling portfolio demonstrating product impact, design excellence, and end-to-end ownership.</p></li></ul><h2>Nice to Have</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience designing AI-native products, autonomous agents, assistants, or emerging interaction models.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience building developer tools, technical platforms, or infrastructure products.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Contributions to open source projects or experience designing for distributed communities.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with agent identity, permissions, privacy, security, or interoperability.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience with front-end development or code-based prototyping.</p></li></ul>