Product Designer

<p style="min-height:1.5em">Every conversation that matters happens in person: the investor pitch, the doctor's diagnosis, the client deal, the standup. And almost all of it gets lost.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Pocket fixes that.</strong> It's a tiny device with three mics and one button. Press it, talk, and by the time you're done there's a transcript, a summary, and your to-dos waiting on your phone. Snap it to the back of your phone and it captures both sides of a call.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">People love it, and it's taking off:</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>400,000 devices shipped</strong></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>On track for 1 million users by the end of the year</strong></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>35 people,</strong> live across the US and now Europe</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're growing faster than our design can keep up with. <strong>That's where you come in.</strong></p><h2><strong>You own everything a customer touches</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Not a feature or a single flow. <strong>Everything:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>The mobile app,</strong> where people relive every conversation seconds after it ends.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>The desktop app,</strong> where people search their memory and get real work done.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>The web app,</strong> so Pocket is available anywhere.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>The website,</strong> where people fall in love with Pocket and buy one.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>The device itself:</strong> pairing, recording, and that one button. Hardware and software that feel like a single product.</p></li></ul><h2><strong>Who you'll work with</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll work directly with <strong>Akshay, our CEO, who is a designer himself,</strong> and with <strong>our founding product designer.</strong> That means a CEO who cares about kerning as much as conversion, and a design partner who has shaped Pocket from day one. No layers, no handoffs, no design-by-committee. You'll take ideas from a rough sketch to a working prototype to production in days, not quarters.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>The mission:</strong> make Pocket the most beautiful and most loved AI product in the world.</p><h2><strong>The problems are wide open</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">The design patterns for AI memory don't exist yet. <strong>You'll invent them.</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">How should it feel to search everything you've ever said?</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">How does an AI earn your trust when it's listening to your real life?</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">What does a great summary look like when the model is only 95% sure?</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">How should proactive assistance show up without getting creepy?</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll design for streaming, uncertainty, and mistakes, and for the moments people need to check, correct, or take control. Privacy and trust are part of the product, not an afterthought.</p><h2><strong>You design with AI, not just for it</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">If your workflow looks the same as it did two years ago, this isn't the role for you.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You live in <strong>Paper, Figma Make, v0, Cursor, and Claude Code.</strong> You prototype in real code with real data, because an AI product has to be felt to be judged. A static mockup of a summary is not a summary.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You go wild when exploring and obsessive when polishing. And when a fix is faster to ship yourself, you open the code editor and ship it.</p><h2><strong>You're probably a fit if</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Your taste is undeniable.</strong> Your portfolio makes people stop scrolling, and you know the last 10% is where the magic happens.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You're a builder first.</strong> Your instinct is "let me build it and see how it feels," not "let me write a deck."</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>AI is how you already work,</strong> and you have strong, specific opinions about which AI products feel great and which feel broken.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You move fast and care deeply.</strong> Scrappy when exploring, meticulous when shipping.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You take extreme ownership.</strong> You spot what's broken and fix it without waiting for a ticket.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You think across platforms</strong> and know what makes something feel native on iOS, desktop, and the web.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You argue for your ideas</strong> and change your mind when the evidence says so.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Bonus points</strong> if you've shipped a consumer product people love, built something 0 to 1, designed for hardware, or have serious motion or front-end skills.</p><h2><strong>Why this is the best design job in AI right now</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Instant impact.</strong> Your work reaches hundreds of thousands of real people the day it ships.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>A design-led company.</strong> Your CEO is a designer, so design has a real seat at the table.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Total ownership.</strong> Every surface, from a physical device to the website, is yours to shape.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Uncharted territory.</strong> You'll define how humans and AI share memory.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Atoms and pixels.</strong> Very few design roles let you shape both hardware and AI software.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Hypergrowth.</strong> We're going from 400K devices to 1M users this year, and your career moves at that speed too.</p></li></ul><h2><strong>Show us what you've got</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Skip the cover letter. Send us:</p><ol style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>2 or 3 shipped projects</strong> with what you owned, the hard calls you made, and what happened after launch.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Something you built with AI,</strong> like a code prototype or a Paper, v0, or Figma Make exploration. Tell us how you made it.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>One thing you'd change about Pocket,</strong> and why.</p></li></ol><p style="min-height:1.5em">Titles and years matter less to us than what you've built. If this got your heart rate up, apply.</p>