You love solving complicated UI problems but hate being told exactly how you should do it.
There are plenty of hard problems for you to solve in this business. Their product uses AI to produce, enrich, and narrate media. They are using AI to do the heavy lifting based on what the technology is already good at. Their digital studio lets their customers create content straight from text. Allowing them to create audiobooks, adverts or podcasts without paying for voice artists, sound editors or studio time. Users can also import existing content and decompose it into individual elements or building blocks. Once the content is uploaded, it can easily be manipulated using the powerful and intuitive UI you will help build.
The goal is to be the Canva of content production, giving content producers an entire sound studio and making it easy for them to produce incredible content.
You will help the team build some very complicated features. Picture a mixing board in a sound studio and now picture that board attached to a rich library of content. Can you create a user interface that lets users quickly and confidently produce high-quality audio products? Now, think about doing the same again for the video (the next phase). The product has good traction, but your goal is to make it as sticky as chewing gum under a desk. Loyal users are the only way to win the AI hype war.
The team is small, highly experienced, and are all very hands-on. The CTO still contributes code. There is no time for hand-holding, and you will need to need to be able to take a high level problem and deliver a finished feature. As an example “give users a visual landscape of all the audio elements in a sample and give them ways to separate them, drag them, drop them, snip them and paste them to create something entirely new.
If you thrive in this kind of environment and are confident in your skills as a rounded problem solver who has worked on some of the most challenging problems in computing, this could be your role.
Key skills required for this role;
- Strong UI engineering skills (React)
- T-Shaped skills with front-end engineering being the deepest part of your profile
- Some full stack experience or a willingness to learn
Things you should know;
- This is a start-up and there is a lot that needs doing.
- The people working here are very career-minded
- This role might well take you out of your comfort zone.
FAQ's
Salary: Up to £110 000 base plus equity to the same value vesting over 4 years
Remote working: Yes most of the time but you must be OK with meeting monthly in London
If you have read this far and you think you are a great fit email me directly - oliver@seekr.inc Put "Nobody tells me how to UI" in the email title and confirm in the first paragraph that you are happy coming into London for a regular meeting. All applicants that apply this way are guaranteed a personal response. All other applications will be reviewed but feedback may not be specific.