Sandbar

New York

Lead Product Designer

ON-SITE SENIOR

Posted 6 months ago

Quick Summary

Role Overview

Sandbar is seeking a Lead Product Designer to shape the user experience for Stream, a novel conversational interface and voice ring. You will lead design across UI/UX, multimodal interactions, and agentic control while collaborating with engineers and founders.

Key Responsibilities

Own end-to-end product design spanning visual, AI, and interaction design
Ideate and prototype novel software features for the Stream interface
Evaluate new features to ensure a high-quality user experience
Work closely with engineers and product to scope new experiences
Implement design solutions for multimodal interactions and agentic control
Design information representation and personality for the conversational computer

Requirements Snapshot

Experience shipping iOS-based applications is required
Experience developing design systems spanning multiple platforms
Demonstrated passion and enthusiasm for large language models
Portfolio of prior work is required for consideration
Experience with novel form factors or non-software design disciplines

Expected Impact

You will lead the design of a new computer and human-agent interface aimed at augmenting individuals in an agentic world. Your work will touch every aspect of the end-user experience, from multimodal interactions to information representation. You will help bring the Stream voice ring to market, enabling users to think, act, and move freely.

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Job Description

About Sandbar

Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to augment individuals in an agentic world—to think, act, and move freely. Our team has built SW, ML, and HW products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Google, Apple, Fitbit, Peloton, and Equinox.

Our first product, Stream, is a new human-agent interface—a private voice ring and conversational computer. Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, & Wired, and begins shipping in Summer '26.

Join us in creating a new interface for self augmentation.

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

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