UX Engineer, Reality Defender
$100-150k
+ Offers Equity + Offers Bonus
Remote Fridays
Enterprise-grade deepfake detection
Be an early applicant
Enterprise-grade deepfake detection
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$100-150k
+ Offers Equity + Offers Bonus
Remote Fridays
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help companies, governments, and journalists determine if media is real or fake, focusing on audio, video and image manipulation.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years designing and building modern SaaS applications
- Strong portfolio demonstrating both UX design and front-end implementation
- Expertise with Figma and modern prototyping tools
- Experience building interfaces using React, TypeScript, or similar front-end frameworks
- Strong understanding of interaction design, usability, and accessibility
- Ability to rapidly move from concept to prototype
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, and comfort in a fast-moving startup environment
- Nice to have: enterprise software design experience, AI or cybersecurity product experience, familiarity with design systems and component libraries, user research/usability testing experience, or motion/interaction animation experience
What the job involves
- This isn't a traditional product designer role, and it isn't a traditional front-end engineering role either
- We're looking for someone who can move seamlessly from customer problems to interaction design to production-ready prototypes — the connective tissue between product strategy, design, and engineering
- Own end-to-end UX design and rapid prototyping for new product initiatives, from concept through implementation-ready design
- Build interactive, near-production-quality prototypes using React, TypeScript, or similar frameworks to validate ideas before full engineering investment
- Partner with Engineering to validate technical feasibility early and reduce handoff friction
- Help establish and evolve reusable UI patterns, components, and Reality Defender's broader design system
- Advocate for usability, accessibility, and thoughtful interaction design across the platform
- Work alongside Product Managers to define customer experiences before development begins
- Facilitate cross-team alignment by making complex ideas tangible through prototypes and visual storytelling
- Within 1 month, you’ll…
- Be embedded within Product and Engineering workflows
- Be up to speed on Reality Defender's current design system, tooling, and prototyping stack
- Have shadowed the existing design-to-development handoff processWithin 3 months, you’ll…
- Within 3 months, you’ll…
- Have delivered prototypes for at least one key product initiative
- Have shipped a concrete improvement to the design-to-development handoff process
- Have identified specific opportunities to streamline UX across the platform
- Within 6 months, you’ll…
- Have a repeatable design and prototyping process running
- Have measurably reduced iteration time on at least one product initiative
- Have contributed meaningfully to the evolution of the design system
Our take
Reality Defender was born out of The AI Foundation to help protect the 2020 US Elections from the threat of deepfakes. It officially launched as a company in 2021, based in New York. Today there continues to be a genuine issue where the public cannot decipher what is true or false online due to the existence of easily-created deepfakes.
Reality Defender's platform empowers enterprises to highlight and flag fraudulent users and content found online. Its API and app also provide risk scoring, reporting, and forensics review.
Reality Defender was selected as part of Y Combinator’s 2022 batch, the same backing received by Monzo, Airbnb and Stripe in their early days. This backing, paired with the founding team’s experience of over twenty years at Google, Goldman Sachs, and the Intelligence Community, as well as its 2023 award win, has worked well for this early-stage startup.
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Company
Company benefits
- Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents
- Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents
- Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees
- FSA/HSA and 401k programs
- Equity compensation
- 20 days of PTO per year
- 12 weeks of Parental Leave
- Learning and Development budget
- Monthly wellness benefits
- Annual company-sponsored offsite
Company HQ
Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Gaurav Bharaj
(Co-Founder & Advisor)Previously the Chief Science Officer at Flawless, the Vice President of Research for The AI Foundation and a Senior Researcher for Technicolor.
Ali Shahriyari
(Co-Founder & Advisor)Previously acted as the Director of Product for The AI Foundation and as a Vice President for Originate.
Ben Colman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded PlaceAVote. Previously acted as NYC Lead for Xoogler.co, CEO for Convertix, and Vice President for Goldman Sachs.
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