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Mirage is an AI-native video platform that uses natural language to intelligently orchestrate production and editing. The company's models leverage contextual awareness to execute creative decisions a professional editor would make, dramatically improving productivity for experienced teams while making video creation accessible to anyone.
You will be Mirage's first experienced design leader, responsible for building and leading the Product Design team. You'll set the vision and quality bar for design across the company, manage and develop high-performing designers, and partner closely with executive, Product, and Engineering teams to shape product strategy.
Key responsibilities include:
- Setting vision, strategy, and quality standards for Product Design as the product and company scale
- Leading, mentoring, and developing a team of product designers with clear direction and meaningful growth opportunities
- Building a world-class design team, shaping its structure, capabilities, and culture
- Partnering with executive, Product, and Engineering leadership on product vision, strategy, and roadmap
- Guiding design of complex, high-impact initiatives from exploration through launch
- Establishing a culture of critique, craft, and user-centered decision-making while enabling rapid iteration
- Translating emerging AI capabilities into intuitive interaction models across text, image, audio, motion, and video
As a small, highly collaborative team, the design function has significant ownership over not only how products look and feel, but how they fundamentally work. You'll help define new interaction paradigms for AI-native video creation and build the systems and culture needed to deliver exceptional work.
The company is well-funded (raised $75M, backed by Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and notable founders/investors including Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, and Julie Zhuo) and recognized as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies.
All roles require in-person presence at the NYC HQ in Union Square.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Track record of building, managing, and developing high-performing product design teams
- Significant experience designing and shipping complex consumer products, ideally across mobile and desktop
- Strong product judgment and exceptional design taste, with ability to raise the bar from early thinking through polished execution
- Ability to move fluidly between high-level strategy, people leadership, and detailed product critique
- Comfortable creating clarity in ambiguous environments and making thoughtful decisions with imperfect information
- Clear communicator who can inspire teams, explain design rationale, and align people around shared direction
- Portfolio demonstrating strong systems thinking, high-quality craft, and meaningful impact on shipped products
Even better if you have:
- Experience designing AI-native products, creative tools, or products involving video, audio, image, or motion
- Experience building or scaling a design function at an early-stage or rapidly growing company
- Strong point of view on how people will interact and create with AI as technology evolves
- Grounded, collaborative approach and willingness to do whatever it takes to help the team win
- Background as a startup founder or early design leader
