Product Designer Tavus
AI video cloning platform for personal connections with customers and partners.
Permanent
Remote: Not specified
Salary: Not specified
> 5 years
Decision-making
Negotiation skills
Graphic design
Design system
Collaboration and teamwork
+1
You'll be part of
United States of America
40 employees
Software
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
Media
Our take
Tavus is an AI video cloning tool that uses synthetic media, more popularly known as ‘deepfakes’, for companies to produce customizable and scalable content. The platform enables businesses to create videos for marketing, outreach, sales, recruiting and more while tailoring them to specific individuals. Other players in the field include Loom and Vidyard, both of which have proven the value of personalised videos for businesses, but whose services take time. Tavus is scalable as its platform can generate thousands of personalised videos in the time it would take to record just one. The videos generated currently come with imperfections, notably the lip-syncing and video-cloning, which Tavus tenuously claims create more engaging content. Synthetic media was called upon heavily during the pandemic, as companies created AI-copilots that could host conferences and pitches remotely, so it will be interesting to see how this industry continues to grow as time goes on. Tavus is young, but is expanding quickly with new products like its Phoenix-3 and Raven-0 models, having been backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator, amongst other top firms. Off the back of 2024 Series A funding, it has the means to accelerate development and growth.
You'll be working on
- We are seeking a craft-obsessed, systems-minded Product Designer to evolve our product suite and own & grow the Tavus design systems – the components, tokens, and patterns that every surface we build on top of depends on
- This role has a deliberate arc. In the near term, your focus will be the design system: consolidating, architecting, and elevating it into something stable, distinct, and built to scale with us. As that foundation matures, we expect this role to evolve into ownership of a product area, where you’ll carry the same craft and judgment forward into shipping product day to day. We’re looking for someone genuinely excited by both halves
- You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and leadership in a fast-paced environment to make the system the clear, trusted foundation for how we design and build. Join our small, creative team of designers, engineers, and product enthusiasts dedicated to thoughtfully bridging the human-machine divide. We’re doing it right, sweating the details, and we’re in it together
- Architect for scale: Define the token architecture, component structure, and theming model (light, dark, and beyond) that let the system flex across products and surfaces without forking or drifting
- Own governance, not just files: Establish the standards, documentation, and contribution model that keep the system coherent as more designers and engineers touch it. Be the clear, decisive voice when tradeoffs get contentious
- Partner deeply with engineering: Work hand-in-hand with frontend engineers to ensure the system is implemented faithfully and effectively
- Elevate craft everywhere: Bring meticulous visual and interaction craft, including motion and micro-interaction detail, to every component and pattern so the system doesn’t just function, it feels intentional and distinctly Tavus. “Good enough” isn’t
- Drive adoption: Make the system easier to use than not using it. Build the artifacts, documentation, and relationships that get other designers, engineers, and marketers to reach for the system first
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their families, with 100% of monthly premiums paid by Tavus
- Unlimited paid time off, as well as parental and pawental leave
- Flexible hours
- Remote-friendly, with teams at home or in co-working spaces across the globe
- Yearly stipend for you to spend on any learning materials (i.e. newsletters, online courses, etc.)
- Company retreats
- Debate and feedback are cornerstones of our culture
- Generous gear stipend
- Frequent in person meet ups
- Team members from diverse backgrounds – we’re looking for culture creators, not culture fits
- Progressive, open-minded meritocracy
We're looking for
- This is a Product Design role that demands exceptional VisD skills and experience
- We need someone with exceptional eye and hand for typography, color, spacing, and detail, who can bring real motion craft to how our system feels in use. But the design system doesn’t exist in a vacuum: It has to hold up under real product and UX problems, across a growing portfolio of products, so strong product design judgment is a must
- Built for startup pace: You can operate with minimal specs and shifting priorities, protecting the highest quality bar while moving fast
- An indefatigable visual designer, with an exceptional, well-trained eye for typography, color, layout, and detail, plus real motion design chops
- Technically fluent: You’re comfortable working close to code: reviewing implementation, catching and stopping drift between design and build, and speaking the language of the engineers who ship your system
- Decisive in ambiguity: You don’t need permission to make a call. When a system decision has no clean answer, you weigh the tradeoffs, make a defensible choice, and move, while staying meticulous about the details within that decision
- Original, not just tasteful. We’re not looking for someone who can recognize good design when they see it; we’re looking for someone who can produce something distinct that hasn’t been seen before. If your portfolio could pass for a dozen other SaaS products, this isn’t the right fit. We’ll ask you to walk us through specific decisions and the reasoning behind them, and the results those decisions yielded
- Experienced building and governing design systems at scale. You can point to a system you’ve architected and evolved, not just contributed to, with bonus points for work both within an existing component framework as well as from-scratch builds
- A genuinely capable product designer, with 6+ years of experience and solid UX judgment. You understand user flows, interaction patterns, and product tradeoffs well enough that your systems hold up with elegance under real product pressure
- Principled and able to defend it. You’re especially adept at articulating why a decision is correct. You push back on your own instincts as readily as you push back on others’