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Lead Product Designer

New York, United States

Location
New York, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Lead / staff
Function
Design
Pay
$165K – $230K a year
Posted
9 months ago

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The top of this role’s range, $230K a year, is about the median of $237K for lead / staff design jobs in New York (middle half $190K – $270K, 102 jobs that state pay).

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About the role

About Sandbar

Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to expand human thinking. Our team has built software, ML, hardware, and consumer products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Apple, Peloton, and Equinox.

Our first product is Stream, a private voice ring that extends your thinking. Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, Wired, and Time's Best Inventions of the Year.

Join us in creating technology that extends human thinking.

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
  • Company-sponsored 401(k)
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time
  • Early stage equity

Source

Posted by Sandbar on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 11:49 UTC; the original is the reference.

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