OZU is building a native AI video platform that integrates video understanding with video editing. We accelerate the storytelling process by helping creative professionals search and edit massive volumes of video using prompts, characters, storylines, and other creative elements. We’re bringing powerful features and workflows that normally live in large Hollywood studios and bringing them to prosumers in an elegant creative toolkit. OZU's models run locally on Apple Silicon— enabling customers to efficiently and privately manage their large volumes of video. Our vision is to build a storytelling AI that helps people see and capture the world like a filmmaker.
OZU’s founders are Anton Marini, Rahul Somani, and Eli Chapman. Our company is remote-first with the core team working hybrid in NYC from our studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn. We are passionate about storytelling, video technology, AI and ML, streaming and film, and building software products that unlock creativity. If you are too, we’re excited to be hiring for a talented Designer / Design Engineer for project-based work that can ultimately lead to a full-time opportunity.
OZU seeks a talented Designer / Design Engineer and to accelerate our vision and product execution. You will be working with OZU’s founders on completely new interfaces (web, iOS, Android), and new features and reimagining (Mac App). You will be helping us with speculative design (things we know are possible and plan to get to soon!) as well as public facing comms and content - (ozu.ai!). You should be comfortable in design tools and in bringing ideas to life through code and design engineering. We are a small team, and everyone wears multiple hats and needs to go wide.
This is an opportunity to lead and shape major design decisions in a highly collaborative, hands-on, product-focused startup. We’re building something special, and we are looking for someone special to join the team! We are looking for someone with great taste, who is a prolific, proactive problem-solver. You’ll be working with our three co-founders and our small but extended world class team who has been deep in ML/AI and video for as long as nearly anyone.
We’re looking for someone with a proven track record in developing creative user experiences that inspire people to make and explore. Your portfolio and experience should have beautiful products and features across web, mobile, and Mac. You’ve owned specific deliverables, and can be trusted to communicate with team members, set realistic expectations, stay on top of changing requirements, and manage your own deliverables. You can problem solve with your team as well as on your own. You’re a systems thinker who enjoys new problem domains and learning on the job.
You enjoy decomposing complex problems into easy to reason about components. You relish in the challenge of building systems that scale and grow with users.
You think aloud with interfaces - playing through problems with flows and experiences.
You create videos and prototypes that demonstrate solutions and new paths forward.
You learn from observing users and looking at analytics.
You are a kind and supportive team member, conscious of building a fun, inclusive company culture and environment, and don’t mind a friendly office/studio dog!