Tasklet

The cloud agent operating system for knowledge work

Staff Design Engineer

$260K - $350K0.35% - 0.70%San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Design, Product design
Experience
6+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
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Andrew Lee
Andrew Lee
Founder

About the role

IMPORTANT: the best way to apply is by submitting a video application by following the instructions on our jobs page here.

At Tasklet, we’re building the cloud agent OS for work. Our product is redefining how knowledge workers interact with software — instead of switching between dozens of apps, our users work through a single AI agent that orchestrates everything. Our UI is minimal, chat-centric, and deceptively simple. When more UI is required, it is generated with AI on the fly. We believe we can be the main app that most knowledge workers use for everything.

We’re looking for a staff-level design engineer to own the entire design surface of Tasklet. You’ll be responsible for ensuring our product feels excellent, including keeping the UX simple & intuitive and making sure we get the details right. The ideal candidate is an AI-pilled IC who can do both the design & the bulk of the implementation work themselves.

This is a foundational leadership role with generous equity — we need someone truly world-class.

Compensation

  • $260k → $350k salary
  • 0.35% → 0.70% equity
  • Competitive benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k, 4 weeks PTO, free lunch, etc)

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end design of Tasklet — navigation, discovery, visual design, and interaction patterns
  • Make AI agent interactions feel simple and intuitive, even as the underlying system grows massively in power. You’ll need to define the visual language and interaction model for a new category of product — there is no playbook, you’ll write it.
  • Build what you design. We need a designer who can ship production code, not someone who just hands off mockups.
  • Get the details right & make Tasklet feel truly excellent. Raise our level of polish until we people rave about our design. Inspire the rest of the team to keep raising the bar too.

Our ideal candidate

  • You’re a designer-engineer hybrid who ships production UI, not just Figma files
  • Exceptional visual design taste and deep interaction design intuition
  • You’ve designed complex products that feel simple — ideally for a product used by a lot of users
  • Strong opinions about AI UX and how humans should interact with agents
  • Strong enough engineering skills to implement most of your designs easily yourself
  • You could easily get a design engineer role at a top AI lab — but you want the outsized impact of a startup, and you believe Tasklet can win

Read more about our company and apply via video by following the directions on our careers page.

About the interview

The whole process can move very quickly.

  1. Send us a video application by following the instructions on our jobs page here.
  2. We’ll get on a call with you
  3. If there seems like a mutual fit, we’ll bring you onsite for 1/2 day.

About Tasklet

Tasklet is building the cloud agent OS for knowledge work. Instead of switching between dozens of SaaS apps, our users connect one AI agent to all their tools and let it handle their work — pulling data, taking actions, generating UIs on the fly, and running 24/7 in the cloud.

We've raised $29.5M from Union Square Ventures, Lightspeed, Y Combinator, Jeff Dean, and Patrick & John Collison. Our team of 9 in San Francisco is led by Andrew Lee (founded Firebase, sold to Google) and Jonny Dimond, and includes engineers from Google, Amazon, and OpenAI.

We're growing fast, shipping constantly, and competing directly with the AI labs to build the agent platform that replaces legacy application software. Nearly every line of code here is written with AI — we're an engineer-driven team that believes deeply in giving models more agency and using them to multiply what a small team can do.

Tasklet
Founded:2025
Batch:P26
Team Size:8
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Jonny Dimond
Jonny Dimond
Founder
Andrew Lee
Andrew Lee
Founder