Product Designer

About Melius

Melius is building the creative canvas for agents.

We're creating a new category of AI-native creative tooling: a collaborative workspace where humans and agents generate, edit, and orchestrate images and videos together. Instead of jumping between fragmented tools, prompts, and workflows, Melius gives artists, creators, and teams a single canvas to direct AI systems end-to-end.

Our platform combines real-time collaborative infrastructure, multimodal AI models, and agentic workflows to help brands, studios, and creative teams scale high-quality creative output faster than ever before.

We're based in New York City, backed by top-tier investors, and focused on building one of the defining creative software companies of the AI era.

The Role

We're looking for a Product Designer to shape how people direct AI systems on the canvas.

This is a hard design problem with almost no precedent. Chat is a dead end for creative work, and traditional creative tools weren't built for collaborators that act on their own. You'll be figuring out what the right interface actually is: how a canvas makes an agent's intent legible, how a user redirects work mid-flight, and how a workflow that runs for twenty minutes across dozens of steps stays comprehensible.

Designers at Melius own their work end-to-end, from early problem framing through to pixel-level polish in production. We value designers who prototype to think, argue from first principles, and hold an uncompromising bar for craft.

What You'll Do

• Own major surfaces end-to-end: framing the problem, exploring broadly, and staying with it through shipped detail.

• Design the interaction language for agents on a canvas: how they show what they're doing, what they propose, where they are in a long task, and how a user intervenes.

• Invent interfaces for AI creative work that go beyond the prompt box, including direct manipulation, node graphs, and spatial editing.

• Design for real-time multiplayer, where multiple humans and agents work on the same canvas at once.

• Build and evolve our design system so speed and consistency compound rather than trade off.

• Prototype at whatever fidelity the question demands, from Figma to code.

• Talk to artists, studios, and brand teams regularly, and turn what you learn into product decisions.

• Work closely with founders, engineering, and product to define the future of AI-native creative workflows.

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years designing production software at high-growth technology companies or startups.

• A portfolio of shipped work that shows depth of thinking, not just polished screens. We want to see how you got there.

• Fluency with complex, information-dense interfaces. Canvases, editors, timelines, or graph-based tools rather than marketing pages and dashboards.

• Product-minded, with strong ownership and the ability to operate autonomously in ambiguity.

• Exceptional taste in interaction design, typography, and motion.

• Comfortable prototyping your own ideas, whether in Figma, code, or something scrappier.

• Excited about the intersection of AI, creativity, and tooling.

• Comfortable working in-person from our NYC office 5 days a week.

Bonus points if you've worked on:

• Creative tools (design, video, 3D, audio)

• Real-time multiplayer systems

• AI image/video generation products

• Your own creative practice outside of software

Comp / Benefits

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity ownership

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Wellness benefit (gym, massages, etc.)

• All meals covered

• Unlimited PTO