Senior Product Designer

About Cantina

Cantina Labs is a social AI company, developing a suite of advanced real-time models that push the boundaries of expression, personality, and realism. We bring characters to life, transforming how people tell stories, connect, and create. We build and power ecosystems. Cantina, our flagship social AI platform, is just the beginning.

If you're excited about the potential AI has to shape human creativity and social interactions, join us in building the future!

About the Role

Cantina is looking for a Senior Visual Product Designer with exceptional craft in typography, layout, color, and motion. You’ll design polished, high-fidelity interfaces across mobile and desktop, and you’ll be a core builder of the design system that keeps our product consistent as it grows.

You’ll join a small design team and work closely with its leads, product designers, engineers, and PMs. This is a hands-on craft role. You’ll spend most of your time designing and building, not managing process. We’re looking for someone with an art director’s eye and a systems mindset: you’ve helped build the foundations of a platform, not just designed features on top of one.

What You'll Do

• Design high-fidelity, polished interfaces across mobile and desktop (iOS, Android, & Web) with exacting attention to typography, spacing, hierarchy, color, and motion.

• Build and evolve our design system: tokens, components, and patterns that help the team move fast and stay consistent.

• Partner with other product designers, engineers, and product managers to bring visual craft to every feature, from concept to shipped detail.

• Raise the visual quality of the product through your own work and through thoughtful critique of the work around you.

• Prototype and iterate quickly, refining based on how people actually use the product.

• Help shape our design culture and processes as the product and team scale.

What You'll Bring

• 6–8 years of experience in interactive art direction or visual product design, with a portfolio of shipped, consumer-facing work.

• Exceptional visual craft in typography, spacing, layout, color, and overall look and feel that comes through in your portfolio.

• Hands-on experience building a design system or the visual foundations of a large platform: tokens, components, and the rules behind them.

• A systems mindset: you design reusable components and rules, with clear reasoning behind them. Translate the brand team’s identity work into product UI: type, color, iconography, illustration, and motion that feel like Cantina.

• Strong prototyping and tooling skills (such as Figma) and comfort iterating quickly based on feedback.

• Confidence working with many stakeholders with a clear point of view, openness to feedback, and high quality at speed.

• Comfort with ambiguity and working live with cross-functional partners.

• Bonus: experience with generative AI products or video, media, or creation tools.

Compensation

The anticipated annual base salary range for this role is $190,000-$220,000. When determining compensation, we consider skills, experience, job scope, location, and competitive market data. (Carried over from the original posting; confirm it still fits this profile.)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and generous company equity

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with 99.99% of premiums covered by Cantina

• 42 days of paid time off: 15 PTO days, 10 sick days, 15 company holidays, and 2 floating holidays

• Generous parental leave and fertility support

• 401(k) retirement savings plan

• Lifestyle spending account of $500/month to use however you'd like

• Complimentary lunch and snacks for in-office employees

• One Medical membership, and more!