UI/UX Designer (iOS)

About AI Studio

AI Studio puts every great AI model in one iOS app: cinematic video, 4K images, original songs, and natural voiceovers — on iPhone and iPad. Over 100,000 creators use us every month, we're self-funded, and we ship every week. Small team, no bureaucracy, and design decisions get made in days, not quarters.

The Role

You'll be the designer for our iOS app — owning how AI Studio looks, feels, and flows from the App Store screenshot to the moment a creator exports their first video. You'll design new features, sharpen existing ones, and build the design system that keeps a fast-shipping app coherent. You'll work directly with the founders and our iOS engineers, and your work will be in real users' hands within days.

• Type: Full-time
• Location: Fully remote
• Contract: Freelance / contract, long-term collaboration intended
• Schedule: Flexible, with overlapping hours for design reviews and syncs

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end product design: Take features from rough idea to user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity Figma designs, and interactive prototypes — then iterate with engineers until what ships matches what you designed.
• Design for generative AI: Craft the moments that define an AI app — prompt input, model selection, generation progress, results galleries, editing, and export/share flows — so that waiting feels exciting and results feel magical.
• Shape the money screens: Design and iterate on onboarding, paywalls, and trial flows with the growth side of the team — the screens where design taste and conversion data meet.
• Build the design system: Maintain a clean, reusable component library in Figma that maps naturally to SwiftUI, so the app stays consistent as we ship weekly.
• Extend the brand beyond the app: Create App Store screenshots, app icon iterations, and visual assets for marketing and ads.
• Decide with data: Use analytics, session insights, and user feedback to find friction — and A/B test your way to designs that measurably perform better.

What We're Looking For

Must-Haves

• 3+ years designing consumer mobile apps, with shipped iOS work you're proud of.
• A portfolio that shows strong visual craft and clear product thinking — we'll look at the flows, not just the shots.
• Mastery of Figma: components, variables, auto layout, and prototyping.
• Deep familiarity with Apple's Human Interface Guidelines — and good judgment about when to follow them and when to break them.
• Strong interaction design fundamentals: hierarchy, typography, motion, and micro-interactions that make an app feel native and alive.
• Comfort working directly with engineers and shipping fast without a big design org around you.
• Good written and spoken English for async collaboration.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience designing subscription apps — onboarding, paywalls, and retention loops.
• Experience with AI/creative tools, or genuine daily use of them.
• Motion design skills (After Effects, Rive, or prototype-level motion in Figma).
• Enough SwiftUI awareness to know what's cheap and what's expensive to build.
• Illustration, 3D, or brand design chops.

How We Work

• Small team, big surface: You're not one designer among forty. The app's look and feel is yours to own.
• Remote-first: Work from anywhere, with shared hours for design reviews.
• Ship weekly: Your designs go live in days — and you see real usage data right after.
• High trust, low ego: Direct access to founders, fast decisions, no design-by- committee.
• Competitive compensation: We value strong design talent and structure offers accordingly.

Why Join AI Studio

• Define the face of a consumer AI product used by 100,000+ creators every month.
• Work on the most interesting design surface of the decade: making generative AI feel simple.
• Your portfolio grows with every release — real, shipped, measurable work.
• Skip the politics; keep the craft.