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About the role
Own Tasklet's product design end to end. Make the whole product feel simple, intuitive, coherent, and beautiful—not just individual screens or features. Build what you design. You will personally write production code and ship most of your work. There is no traditional design-to-engineering handoff.
What they're looking for
- You're a hands-on engineer with exceptional design judgment. You are fluent in modern frontend development and can take an idea all the way to polished production software yourself
- You've created something real from zero. Ideally, you've been a founder or had equivalent ownership of a meaningful product from its earliest conception through real customer use. Your portfolio shows personal authorship, not just participation
- You think in products and systems, not screens. You can form a clear mental model of a complicated system and turn it into something ordinary people immediately understand
- You have exceptional taste and sweat the details. You care about the final 10% that separates functional software from software people love
- You lead while remaining an IC. You make teammates better through shipped work, crisp principles, thoughtful critique, and high standards. You want influence, not a management empire
- You're deeply AI-pilled. You use AI every day to explore more ideas, build faster, and produce better work. You're excited to define new interaction patterns for humans and agents
More about this role
Do not apply through this platform. To apply, you must submit a short video by email. See the full application instructions at https://tasklet.ai/careers .
Tasklet is building the AI platform companies use to run their business on agents. A customer describes an outcome in plain English, and Tasklet gets the work done across their tools and systems—immediately or in the cloud 24×7. We are building for real-world businesses, where making powerful agents simple, trustworthy, and easy to control matters just as much as making them intelligent. This creates a defining product-design challenge: inventing how people and teams work with AI that does real work, not merely chats. We're looking for a Head of Design Engineering to own that experience holistically—making the entire product simple, intuitive, and beautiful, then personally implementing most of it in production. This is an IC role, not a design-management role. You will work directly with our founders, customers, and engineers to decide how Tasklet should work, design it, and ship it. You will set the design bar for the company through your judgment, feedback, and example—not through process or a large team. We need someone who...
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