About us:

We’re a Series A company building intelligent, endearing robots for consumer use at home. The home autonomy space has been dramatically overlooked when it comes to robotics. While the last decade has seen an influx of companies promising self-driving cars and intelligent humanoids, none are delivering these solutions reliably or affordably. Meanwhile, regular people are still stuck spending dozens of hours per week on repetitive household chores.

At Matic, we're leveraging advanced technology to address this problem. We've started out by reimagining what autonomous floor cleaning robots can achieve using AI and computer vision with our flagship product. From there, our goal is to continue automating other forms of household labor, shipping realistic, affordable, and privacy-first robots to our users while building iteratively toward more complex tasks and capabilities over time.

About the role:

We’re hiring a Product Design Lead to join us just before we launch our first product. As a founding member of our design team, you’ll report directly to our founders and take full end-to-end ownership over design across Matic’s current and future products. From day one, you’ll be a key voice in driving design vision and strategy, transforming ideas into fully functional experiences.

Given that our flagship product sits at the intersection of AI, Computer Vision, Robotics, and Consumer Electronics, you’ll have plenty of interesting things to work on from a design standpoint. As such, you’ll get creative license to explore and shape all kinds of experiences spanning several platforms: human-robot interaction, 3D mapping, device displays, mobile/web, voice commands, potentially even industrial design and some UX copywriting. You’ll be hands-on across all elements of design here, not limited to one specific feature or part of a product, and as the company grows you’ll have the opportunity to grow the design org around you.

This role is based onsite in our Mountain View office.

What you'll do

• Oversee all Product Design initiatives at Matic — you will be solely responsible for this function, reporting directly to our founders

• Take ownership of our entire UX/UI design portfolio, ensuring a consistent, intuitive, and delightful user experience across all touch points (e.g. app, website, device display, robot behaviors, and user interaction)

• Work side-by-side with the app developers to polish interactions and resolve edge cases

• Manage the design lifecycle end-to-end, from initial ideation and brainstorming through product launch

• Own our app’s user journey and drive major improvements to it, including a full visual refresh to the 3D-rendered live mapping experience and introducing new in-app functionalities with AI integration (e.g., scheduling, voice controls, robot responses)

• Champion high standards for design and evangelize best practices across the organization — as our resident design expert, we want to see you advocate strongly for the user and influence product decisions

• Keep tabs on the latest industry trends and emerging technologies, exploring how we can innovate to further differentiate our products through design

• Collaborate closely with internal teams (product, engineering, marketing) and external stakeholders (creative branding support) to ensure that the product experience aligns with Matic’s business goals and brand vision

• Provide cross-functional mentorship and guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture of design excellence and continuous learning

• Grow into a leadership role and build your own team over time

What we look for

• 5+ years of hands-on industry experience working in an organization that has shipped apps with live customers. Experience working with consumer electronics or IoT devices a plus.

• Practical experience driving a product end-to-end from concept to market launch

• A strong portfolio that tells a visual story, helps us understand your creative process, and ties into business outcomes

• Proficiency with Figma

• Prototyping skills (e.g., Origami Studio, Principle, etc.)

We'd love to hear from you if...

• You’re a strong communicator and leader — you know how to align cross-functional teams/stakeholders and direct them toward actionable, shared goals

• You’re user-obsessed — you are passionate about creating well-functioning, intuitive, & beautiful products and experiences that our customers will absolutely love

• You’re comfortable managing complexity — you’ve executed projects with lots of moving parts and dependencies against tight deadlines, juggling many things at once

• You can break the “big picture” down into smaller goals — you make progress iteratively without losing sight of the long-term vision

• You focus on outcome — your design solutions are tied to business value and product strategy, while also maintaining a high bar for UX and elegant visuals

• You’re excited about Matic’s product and vision

If you got to this point, we hope you're feeling excited about this opportunity at Matic! Even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who are keen to learn and are passionate about what Matic is building. We want to hear how you can contribute to our team in a variety of ways – not just the above boxes.