Principal Designer

Overview

Tolan is an Embodied Companion — a cute AI alien you talk with naturally, like a friend. Tolans have their own personality and preferences, and over time form memories about you, your life, and your shared friendship.

We're an experienced team that previously founded Even, acquired for $300M in 2022. Tolan is backed by the designers and founders behind Instagram, Retro, Behance, Vimeo, and Notion.

Our team works hard, with an emphasis on autonomy and ownership. We’re building together in-person in downtown SF.

We’re looking for a product designer to join our creative team to help shape the future of Tolan. You’ll work in a small team to design, build and ship features that push boundaries of our relationship with embodied AI. You’ll bring knowledge and creativity to everything you touch, from foundational product decisions to tiny moments of visual delight. In this role, you will set a high design bar, make decisive product and design decisions and ship new interfaces at the frontier of AI.

• Have 5+ years of experience owning design projects end-to-end with little oversight
• Have worked on consumer facing products and taken them from concept to production, learned from real users and iterated quickly
• Thrive in highly autonomous and collaborative environments
• Care as much about solving product problems as you do about visuals
• Know when to follow patterns and when to break them to make something entirely new