Principal Designer at Tolan
Tolan is hiring a Principal Designer in San Francisco, CA, US. On-site. Pay: USD 200k-300k/yr.
About Tolan
Tolan is a company that makes a mobile app featuring an AI companion, an alien character, that supports people in their everyday lives, including helping them through emotionally difficult experiences and improving relationships.
Principal Designer job description
Tolan is building personal AI that helps people think, reflect, and take action in their real lives.
We're an experienced team that previously founded Even, acquired for $300M in 2022. Tolan is backed by the designers and founders behind Instagram, Retro, Behance, Vimeo, and Notion.
The role
We're hiring a Principal Designer to help shape the future of Tolan. You'll work in a small team to design, build, and ship features that push the boundaries of our relationship with embodied AI.
What You'll Do
Own design projects end-to-end, from foundational product decisions to polished visual details.
Partner closely with engineering and product to take features from concept to production.
Set and maintain a high design bar across the full Tolan experience.
Push the boundaries of what's possible at the frontier of embodied AI interfaces.
Talk with real users, learn from what you ship, and iterate quickly.
Who We're Looking For
Experienced designer. You have 5+ years of experience owning design projects end-to-end with little oversight.
Consumer product chops. You've worked on consumer-facing products and taken them from concept to production, learned from real users, and iterated quickly.
Autonomous collaborator. You thrive in highly autonomous and collaborative environments.
Product-minded. You care as much about solving product problems as you do about visuals.
Pattern breaker. You know when to follow patterns and when to break them to make something entirely new.
Compensation: $200,000-300,000 base salary + equity + benefits
