Head of Design

We are defining a new category, and a new category has no visual or interaction vocabulary to inherit. You'll need to help define it. When execution is cheap, the quality of the product, its taste, its thoughtfulness, and its ability to direct human attention to what matters most are what create trust and make people come back. As the design leader, you'll have ultimate responsibility for making every interaction with our product as intuitive and effective as possible.

The Design Leader is a senior design voice with well-formed, opinionated taste, who raises our bar in how we serve our customers and also delivers on that vision. Beyond being an industry leader in your craft, you are curious, excited about how the industry is changing with AI, and our mission to turn humans and agents into high-performing teams resonates deeply with you.

You'll do two jobs at once.

1. Make the product wow. Our product is already powerful and innovative; we use it ourselves all day long. But the way it shows up doesn't yet reflect the power behind it. You'll bring it to life so customers feel that same power, with clarity and ease.

We're looking for broad thinking across design and product, plus industry-defining strength in at least one area, such as UX and UI, brand, or the physical product, that you take far beyond what anyone else can imagine. In the AI era, that depth lets you push and influence every other area.

2. Build the machinery of design. To scale, Sage Ox lets everyone ship to production independently, which often means non-designers make design choices. You'll build the harnesses, tooling and guidance that let humans and agents follow your taste without your direct involvement. Beyond that, you'll help define what design means in the AI era: how we talk about it, the storytelling, how we attract designers, and how we build for designers.

What you'll shape

• Product: Ox Console, Ox Desktop and Mobile apps, onboarding for multi-person teams

• Design system: components, tokens and guidance that both humans and coding agents use

• Agent experience: how agents discover and experience us

• Sage Ox in the real world: the Ox Dot, packaging, unboxing, onboarding, gadgets, the meeting-room experience

• Brand: the visual brand language and the brand system for features and products

• Marketing materials: website, social media visuals, event marketing

You'll work closely with the founders to turn their vision into a strong visual experience, while adding your own ideas and pushing us further. This role will have great influence over the adoption of our product and, ultimately, the success of the company.

Over time, you'll build out and manage the Design team.

You'll own design not through direct control or authorship of every feature, but by building the system: the harnesses, rules, design systems and approaches that drive how agents and humans roll out features you've never even seen, built so you're comfortable with that.

• No throwing design over the wall. Design comes from everywhere: engineers, marketers, founders and agents all ship design decisions every day. Your job is to make those decisions good, not to gatekeep them.

• Builders, not mockup makers. Planning and vision matter, and they'll be yours, but this role also requires execution. Everyone at Sage Ox builds, collaborates and delivers to production.

• The harness is everything. The future of UX is likely deeply personalized: more of what people use every day will be unique to them. When no two users see the same thing, the system that shapes the experience matters more than any single screen.

• Build toward where the models are headed. Foundation model builders are investing heavily in distilling taste into models. We're betting that…