Lead Product Designer
Sandbar
Lead Product Designer
Sandbar
Wearable AI ring for private dictation
About Sandbar
Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to expand human thinking. Our team has built software, ML, hardware, and consumer products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Apple, Peloton, and Equinox.
Our first product is Stream, a private voice ring that extends your thinking. Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, Wired, and Time's Best Inventions of the Year.
Join us in creating technology that extends human thinking.
An Open Letter: Design @ Sandbar
About
We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer for Stream, a new conversational interface. This role touches every aspect of our end-user experience—including UI/UX, multimodal interactions, agentic control, information representation, personality, and more. You’ll work closely with software engineers, machine learning engineers, and founders to lead the design of a new computer.
This role is perfect for someone with wide vision and minute attention to detail, who is humanistic and technical, who is experienced and yet continually ready to start over.
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end product design spanning visual, AI, and interaction design
Ideate, prototype, and evaluate novel software features
Work closely with engineers and product to scope and implement new experiences
Qualifications
Experience developing design systems spanning multiple platforms
Experience shipping iOS-based apps is required
Demonstrated passion and enthusiasm for large language models
Experience with novel form factors, inputs, audio, or vision are a plus
Experience in non-software design disciplines such as architecture or industrial design is a plus
Portfolio of prior work is required
FTE Benefits
Health, vision, and dental benefits
Company-sponsored 401(k)
Unlimited PTO and sick time
Early stage equity
Sandbar makes a wearable AI voice interface in the form of a ring called Stream, allowing users to capture notes, chat with an AI, and dictate text. It works by pressing the ring’s touchpad and speaking into a private microphone that only listens when pressed, with gestures to control notes, reminders, and playback, and it can operate with or without earbuds while syncing with iOS and Mac for universal dictation. The product emphasizes privacy and speed by avoiding wake words or always-on mics, using a private mic, tap-to-listen controls, silent haptics, and a ring form with a durable build for a hands-free experience. Its goal is to be a private, hands-free extension of the mind that helps with memory, note-taking, and decision-making without compromising personal data.
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