Product Designer

Character.AI

Product Designer shaping user experience for AI entertainment products in a hybrid role. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to design innovative, user-centered solutions.

Posted 4/15/2026full-timeRedwood City • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $150,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Contribute to the strategic direction of our products, rooted in a desire to entertain and delight our users
Define feature areas with excellent attention to detail and polish, identifying opportunities to improve quality and consistency of broader flows
Craft beautiful, polished, and delightful user interfaces that build trust and showcase the power of our AI technology
Collaborate with product managers, engineers, AI researchers and other stakeholders to define product vision, strategy and roadmaps
Rapidly prototype ideas using code and other methods to communicate concepts and build excitement
Find creative ways to ship high-quality work in a fast-paced, often ambiguous, resource-constrained startup environment

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of product design experience (experience designing complex workflows, consumer apps, social apps, or AI-first products preferred)
Strong portfolio showcasing user-centric design thinking, polished UI craftsmanship, and innovative interaction paradigms
Proven track record of executing end-to-end on large and complex products or a series of products in ambiguous environments
Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and influence without authority
Passion for crafting scaled, highly impactful, safe and beneficial artificial intelligence technologies to enable new possibilities
Experience with prototyping, especially using front-end code (e.g. HTML/CSS/JS) preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

🩺 Top-notch health coverage for you & your family, with majority of the premium covered
💰 We invest in your future with a generous 401(K) contribution
🍼 New parents, we've got you covered with incredible paid leave -up to 20 weeks
🌴 4 weeks of PTO to explore, unwind & come back recharged
🍽️ Daily in-office catering plus a monthly Doordash stipend to help keep you fueled no matter where you are**
✨ Monthly wellness stipend to support you in your health journey

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Hard Skills & Tools

product designuser-centric designUI craftsmanshipinteraction designprototypingHTMLCSSJavaScriptAI technologycomplex workflows

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationattention to detailcreativityinfluence without authoritystrategic thinkingproblem-solvingadaptabilityuser empathyteamwork