Cantina, founded by Sean Parker, is an invite-only platform enabling creators to bring AI ideas to life as social bots. This Senior Product Designer role focuses on leading the design for AI character creation flows. It's a high-ownership, high-velocity position requiring rapid iteration and direct partnership with product, engineering, and AI teams to invent new interaction patterns and define the future of AI-native consumer experiences.

Must Have

• Lead design for AI character creation flows
• Experience designing for generative AI products or workflows
• Identify the right problems and shape solutions
• Iterate rapidly based on user behavior and feedback
• Partner directly with product, engineering, and AI teams
• Design high-fidelity interfaces and end-to-end user journeys
• Own features from concept through polish
• 5+ years of product design experience, with at least 3 years on consumer-facing applications
• Portfolio demonstrating shipped work
• Strong prototyping ability
• Thrives in ambiguity and works quickly
• Deeply user-centered

Good to Have

• Familiarity with video creation or editing tools
• Familiarity with creation flows or media manipulation interfaces

Sr. Product Designer

Location

Los Angeles

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Design

About Cantina:

Cantina, founded by Sean Parker, is an invite only playground that puts AI into the hands of creators and allows them to bring any idea to life as a social bot that can be experienced with friends directly in the Cantina and also shared across the internet.

It's the first place where people can create, explore, and chat live with personality-driven AI bots together with their friends. People can choose from Cantina’s collection of thousands of unique bots, or build awesome AI bots from scratch with just a few prompts.

While a lot of AI focuses on improving productivity and efficiency, we believe our AI bots will drive the future of entertainment on the internet and we’re excited about the creative potential they will unlock for everyone.

Cantina is building a new kind of social AI where people can not only choose their own adventures, but make their own adventures. Create, share, and set AI bots free.

About the role:

Cantina is seeking a Senior Product Designer to lead the design for our AI character creation flows.

Experience designing for generative AI is essential, and familiarity with video creation or editing tools is a major plus.This is not a “take specs and execute” design role — it’s a high-ownership, high-velocity position where you identify the right problems, shape the solutions, and iterate rapidly. You’ll become a power user of the product and stay closely connected to our users, using real behavior and feedback to inform decisions.

You’ll partner directly with product, engineering, and AI teams to invent new interaction patterns, prototype ideas in real time, and put them in users’ hands immediately. In fast-paced design sessions, you’ll be expected to think on your feet, solve problems visually on screen, and push concepts from zero to usable in hours, not days. If you thrive in ambiguity, move quickly, and want to help define the future of AI-native consumer experiences, this role is for you.

About the work:

• Design high-fidelity interfaces and end-to-end user journeys for AI character creation and related creation flows across mobile and desktop.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, research, and AI teams to explore concepts, validate assumptions, and rapidly prototype new interaction patterns.
• Work at high speed. We move from idea to live prototype in hours, not days. We iterate quickly based on real user behavior and feedback.
• Help shape our design culture, processes, and quality bar as we scale the product and team.
• Own features from concept through polish, ensuring that every interaction, state, and detail is intentional, intuitive, and grounded in user needs.

About you:

• 5+ years of product design experience, with at least 3 years working on consumer-facing applications.
• A portfolio demonstrating shipped work that meaningfully improved user experience or business metrics, especially in zero-to-one or fast-moving environments.
• Hands-on experience designing for generative AI products or workflows (required).
• Bonus: familiarity with video editing tools, creation flows, or media manipulation interfaces.
• Strong prototyping ability and comfort iterating rapidly in response to feedback and data.
• Thrives in ambiguity, works quickly without sacrificing quality, and enjoys solving problems live (in real time, on-screen) with cross-functional partners.
• Deeply user-centered, with the ability to become a power user of our product and a close observer of user behavior.