Lead Product Designer

New York, NY

About the role

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. An Open Letter: Design @ Sandbar 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 FTE

Benefits Health, vision, and dental

benefits Unlimited PTO and sick time Early stage equity

About Sandbar

Creating Stream, a self-extension for building ideas, and Stream Ring, the mouse for voice.

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Job details

Salary

$170,000 - $220,000

Location

New York, NY

Company

NameSandbar
IndustryBusiness/Productivity Software
Team Size2

Funding

Total raised

$23M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

True Ventures
Upfront Ventures
BBetaworks
AAdjacent
Kindred Ventures

Founders

Mina Fahmi

Mina Fahmi

Co-Founder & CEO

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Kirak Hong

Kirak Hong

Co-Founder & CTO

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.