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Sonia (YC W24) · 4 months ago

Founding Design Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$120K/yr - $180K/yr

Sonia is a startup focused on creating a safe AI therapist that is as effective as a top human therapist, aiming to make mental health support accessible to all. They are seeking a Founding Design Engineer who will blend the roles of product manager, designer, and frontend engineer, taking ownership of the UI/UX design of their mobile app and collaborating closely with users to improve the experience.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Health CareMental HealthWellness

Responsibilities

Talk to users (we call them clients) and analyze interaction data from the app

Work with us to come up with ideas of what features to tweak, rethink, or add

Map out and design the end-to-end UI/UX

Prototype and make minor SwiftUI edits yourself, and hand-off the rest

Qualification

Mobile app designSwiftUIAI tools usageEnd-to-end project experienceUser empathyCreativity

Required

A kind, hardworking and intelligent person :)

Experience designing mobile apps, preferably at a previous startup

Experience working with SwiftUI

Your own side projects designed and built end-to-end (send them to me!)

Someone who tries to use AI tools for everything and realizes they can now individually get the work done which previously took 5 people to complete

Someone highly creative - I think a lot of UI best practices should be rethought and reinvented for voice AI apps

Experience working with and prompting AI models (at least to the extent of having a very good sense of what they can and can't do. Many of our features will have some LLM component and it is important for you to understand the action space in which you can ideate)

Having been involved in some project, organization, charity or other work that directly or indirectly was focused on making people happier