**🤙 About the Company**
At Clout Kitchen, we help unlock infinite scale for creators through AI-
powered, fan-first experiences — starting in video games. You might be
familiar with our first product — the viral Backseat AI, an in-game buddy for
League of Legends featuring digital twins of your favorite streamers like
Tyler1.
Building across Los Angeles and Metro Manila, we’re a startup driven by our
mission to help today’s creators become icons that last. We’re serial
founders, operators, creators, and gamers-at-heart supported by top investors
like a16z SPEEDRUN, AppWorks, and the founders of Crunchyroll, Yield Guild,
and Gushcloud.
Fun Fact: One of our co-founders played in the League of Legends World
Championship in 2013!
**❓About the Role**
We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer that will lead the Design team and
help shape the future of Backseat AI, as well as all the other creator-led AI
companion experiences we’re cooking up in the lab.
The ideal candidate has built exceptional fan-facing digital products at top
gaming + consumer tech companies. As the first senior design hire, you’re
comfortable wearing many hats: from prototyping and user research to
experimental initiatives and design systems. You’ll also mentor and grow a
team of juniors.
As a small team with ambitions to supercharge the creator space, we’re not
afraid to admit we’re still figuring things out — but we’re hungry and want to
win. We’re looking for teammates who thrive with freedom and responsibility,
wear different hats comfortably, and are always fan-first and creator-first.
**⭐ What You’ll Do**
* **Design Leadership:** Lead creation of user interactions, design systems, UX flow wireframes, and interface designs for our products to ensure a consistently magical user experience.
* **Research:** Conduct and oversee user research initiatives to understand user behaviors, needs, and pain points, as well as translating these findings into actionable insights for product design and strategy.
* **Theorycraft:** Brainstorm ideas + narratives and develop prototypes to help find creative solutions to our products’ unique contexts involving frontier technologies, games and ever-evolving creator fandoms.
* **Team Glue:** Collaborate closely across stakeholders to integrate user-centered design seamlessly into the development process and the organization as a whole. Mentor: Guide and inspire junior members of the Design team.
**⚙️ Need to Have**
* **Sage:** 5+ years of experience in consumer UX/product/game design, with at least 2 in a leadership role.
* **Hobbyist:** An avid gamer and active fan of the creator space (bonus if you know what “skibidi toilet” is).
* **Proof of Work:** Portfolio of work showcasing examples that demonstrate your expertise in interaction design and user research for games and consumer-facing products.
* **Tools of the Trade:** Proficiency in visual design + user research methodology, as well as the tools needed (Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, Miro, etc.).
* **Gift of Gab:** Strong communication skills with cross functional teammates, with the ability to present insights in a clear, compelling, and actionable manner.
* **Entrepreneurial Energy:** Thinks about business outcomes just as much as product building.
* **People Skills:** Thrives in a fast-paced hybrid environment (3 days in-office per week in LA or Manila), while being adaptable to dynamic situations, individuals, and problems.
**➕ Plus Points**
* **Game Familiarity:** Knowledge of today’s top games, particularly League of Legends, VALORANT, Counter-Strike 2, Genshin Impact, Mobile Legends, and/or Minecraft.
* **Creator, Too:** Dabbled into creating content — whether that’s vlogs, shorts, articles or streams.
* **Growth Wizard:** Work history in growth + gamification for mass-market products like e-commerce apps, social networks, and online games.
* **Figuring it Out:** Desire to work in an early-stage, fast-paced environment with significant ambiguity.
* **Time-Flexible:** Ability to work during a daily overlap of a few hours with the rest of the team (Singapore Time and Pacific Time). Occasionally able to travel across offices (Los Angeles ←→ Manila).
* **Master of Tongues:** Can speak languages outside of English, particularly Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, French and/or Korean.
**🚀 Benefits**
* Competitive startup salary commensurate with experience and skills.
* Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance.
* Unlimited paid time off (PTO) policy.
* Equity through our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
* Compensated development opportunities (conferences, expos, etc.) for ongoing learning.
* Opt-in culture events — industry fireside chats, team bonding dinners, etc.
* Network with gaming/tech industry leaders, creators, operators, and other top projects overall.
* Monthly allowance for office commute, a one-time work equipment allowance, and an annual games allowance.
**❗ EEO Disclaimer**
Clout Kitchen is proud to be an equal opportunity employer (EEO). We provide
employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry,
national origin, religion, disability (including gender dysphoria and similar
gender-related conditions), sex, gender identity or expression, sexual
orientation (including actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality,
bisexuality, and asexuality), veteran status, military status, domestic
violence victim status, reproductive health decision making or any other
protected category.
