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title: 'Founding Product Designer at Genmo'
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# Founding Product Designer at Genmo

- **Company:** Genmo
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2024-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/genmo/1eec9a21-b686-498c-8ca5-27fe9c44e2b6

## Job description

We are Genmo, a research lab dedicated to building open, state-of-the-art models for video generation towards unlocking the right brain of AGI. Join us in shaping the future of AI and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in video generation.

## ROLE OVERVIEW

We are seeking a passionate and versatile founding Senior Product Designer to spearhead the design of next-generation products and experiences for video creation. This role is pivotal in driving future innovative features and improvements that cater to both consumers and developers, using a deep understanding of product design principles. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in product design, with an emphasis on creating intuitive, engaging user interfaces for both web and mobile platforms.

## KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Distilling insights from user needs and model research into clear product directions
- Designing and prototyping interfaces for existing Genmo web application and future products and platforms
- Specifying and evaluating model behavior and its impact on the user experience, working closely with our research efforts
- Collaborating closely with research, engineering, and product teams to realize the vision of Genmo's AI-powered video generation tool
- Upholding and advancing the visual consistency and user experience quality across all platforms to create unique, delightful user experiences

## QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years proven experience in product design, particularly for web and mobile interfaces.
- Must have:
- Strong ownership mindset to identify and lead design projects end-to-end that will have the most impact on user experience and Genmo overall
- Experience with consumer applications and a strong understanding of how design impacts user engagement in both the short and long term
- Prior experience working in a small design team environment
- Care about building a safe, exciting future with a transformative technology
- Ideal candidate will have:
- Previous founding designer experience
- Previous experience in video creation or working within the video production industry
- Frontend development experience or interest/passion (e.g., HTML/CSS, React)
- Animation, illustration, or brand design experience are a bonus

Genmo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates are evaluated without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law. Genmo, Inc. is an E-Verify company and you may review the Notice of E-Verify Participation https://drive.google.com/file/d/1urlF3XKQTw83aJfpMKMwrUP1E1mUlNTO/view?usp=sharing and the Right to Work posters in English and Spanish https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZD4zax6Li8oTN_VHd9w3rpFPoWeaeGVO/view?usp=drive_link.

## About Genmo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Genmo is an AI research lab developing open-source state-of-the-art video generation models to unlock visual understanding for artificial general intelligence.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, raised $58.4M total)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022 (GitHub organization created December 2022) [github.com](https://github.com/genmoai)
- **Founders**: Paras Jain (Co-founder and CEO) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/genmoai)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Artificial intelligence / Generative media
- Target customers: B2B & B2C – developers, researchers, and content creators who use open-source models or the company’s interactive playground
- Mission or purpose: “Building open, state-of-the-art models for video generation towards unlocking the right brain of AGI.” [genmo.ai/careers](https://www.genmo.ai/careers)

## Products & Services
- **Mochi 1**: Open-source text-to-video model that turns written concepts into visual stories. Available via GitHub and ComfyUI for local customization and inference. [genmo.ai](https://www.genmo.ai/)
- **Playground**: Interactive web platform for testing and exploring the capabilities of Mochi without needing to run the model locally.
- **Research Publications**: The lab publishes interpretability and performance research on video diffusion models (e.g., internal behavior analysis of open-source video models). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/genmoai)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric (Funding)**: $58.4M total funding across two rounds – a $30M venture round (Feb 2024) and a $28.4M Series A (Oct 2024), both led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/genmoai)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Rapidly growing GitHub stars – Mochi repository has over 3,600 stars. [github.com](https://github.com/genmoai)
  - Recently hired several PhD-level researchers (Yue Fan, Yao Fu, Shyam) and a Member of Technical Staff. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/genmoai)
  - Active job postings for research, engineering, and design roles (5 open positions as of mid-2025). [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/genmo)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open‑source leadership**: Mochi 1 is considered a new state‑of‑the‑art in open text‑to‑video, offering a transparent alternative to closed models.
- **Research‑first culture**: The team focuses on fundamental advances in video world models, with published interpretability work.
- **Early mover in open‑source video generation**: Few competitors offer a comparable open‑source video model with active community and playground.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue advancing the capabilities of video world models to understand the physical world.
- Expand the open‑source ecosystem around Mochi, enabling broader customization and community contributions.
- Hire top research scientists (diffusion, post‑training) and engineering talent (GPU performance, research engineering) to accelerate model development. [genmo.ai/careers](https://www.genmo.ai/careers)

## Why Work Here
- **Benefits**: Fully paid health, dental, and vision insurance; 4% 401(k) matching; unlimited PTO and sick time; daily free lunch and dinner; commuter subsidy. [genmo.ai/careers](https://www.genmo.ai/careers)
- **Culture**: Small, research‑driven team (approx. 11 employees) with a flat structure and direct impact on cutting‑edge AI.
- **Office & Remote**: San Francisco HQ; roles listed as “San Francisco HQ · Full Time” – likely requires in‑office presence with commuter support.
- **Engineering culture**: Opportunity to work on large‑scale distributed training, GPU optimization, and open‑source contributions. Recent hires from top labs (Cohere, Leonardo.Ai, Microsoft, NVIDIA). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/genmoai)

## Sources
1. [genmo.ai](https://www.genmo.ai/) – Company homepage, product overview, open source details
2. [genmo.ai/careers](https://www.genmo.ai/careers) – Careers page, benefits, open roles
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/genmoai) – Company financials, headcount, recent hires, office locations
4. [github.com](https://github.com/genmoai) – GitHub organization, Mochi repository stars and description
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/genmo) – Active job listings (Research Scientist, GPU Engineer, Founding Product Designer)

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