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Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering
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Tasklet, an AI agent platform, is hiring a Head of Design Engineering who will own product design end-to-end and personally write production code to ship it, with no traditional design-to-engineering handoff.
This role structure eliminates the handoff between design and implementation, betting that one person owning both is necessary for inventing AI agent interaction patterns that lack established playbooks. The compensation ($300k, $450k salary, 0.35%, 0.70% equity) reflects what the market will bear for senior design-engineering hybrids in the current AI hiring climate.
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The role is explicitly an IC position, not design management, the hire sets design standards through shipped work and direct feedback, not process or team oversight.
The core product challenge is inventing interaction models for AI agents doing real business work, addressing latency, uncertainty, permissions, errors, and human handoffs where no playbook exists.
Tasklet writes nearly all code with AI assistance and expects this hire to use AI as a serious creative and engineering collaborator across exploration, design, implementation, and testing.
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