About the Role

We’re building a new kind of messaging experience

one that feels deeply emotional, immersive, and memorable.

This role is for someone who knows how to transform a simple message into a powerful emotional moment using native iOS capabilities (animations, haptics, sound, transitions, visual storytelling), not AI-generated videos.

You will define what makes a “deep emotional message” and translate those principles into design guidelines, UI/UX flows, motion design patterns, and technical specifications for our engineering team.

Responsibilities

🧠 Emotional Product Design

• Define the components of an emotionally powerful message (visual, auditory, motion, pacing, interaction)
• Create frameworks, principles, and emotional design systems for messaging

📱 Native iOS Experience Crafting

• Design emotional experiences using native Apple APIs (SwiftUI, Core Animation, AVFoundation, Haptics, Motion, etc.)
• Develop prototypes or work with engineers to validate concepts

🎛 Technical & Creative Direction

• Choose the right frameworks, libraries, and tools to execute immersive experiences
• Translate emotional concepts into developer-ready specs
• Work closely with iOS engineers to ensure high-fidelity execution

👤 Behavioral & Emotional Insights

• Understand how people express feelings, and how interface + motion can amplify them
• Leverage psychology, storytelling, timing, and multisensory design

Requirements

Must Have

• Strong experience designing emotional / immersive experiences for mobile (motion, visuals, sound)
• Fluent with iOS ecosystem and capabilities (SwiftUI, UIKit, Core Animation, haptics, dynamic text, accessibility)
• Ability to prototype and test—either in Swift or tools like Figma
• Strong product sense and user psychology intuition

Nice to Have

• Background in emotional design, behavioral science, or narrative UX
• Experience in sound design or subtle audio mapping
• Experience with creative coding or real-time rendering (SceneKit / RealityKit)

Success Looks Like

• Users feel something in their body when receiving a message
• The experience feels alive, cinematic, yet native to iOS
• Developers have clear guidelines to execute emotional features at scale