Senior Product Designer UI/UX & FRONTEND

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to own the UI/UX of Cascade’s AI-powered filmmaking platform.You will design complex creative workflows across project creation, asset management, AI generation, visual editing, collaboration and final delivery. Your goal will be to make powerful filmmaking tools feel clear, intuitive and enjoyable to use.Strong UI/UX and product design experience is essential. Frontend development experience is highly desirable, especially if you can build prototypes or contribute directly to production interfaces. Please include a link to your online portfolio with your application. We will use this to assess your product thinking, UX process, interaction design and experience designing complex digital products. Applications without a portfolio may not be considered. RESPONSIBILITIES Own end-to-end product design across Cascade’s key workflows.Design intuitive experiences for timelines, visual editors, media controls and AI-assisted creative tools.Turn complex filmmaking processes into clear, easy-to-follow user journeys.Improve navigation, information architecture and product usability.Create user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes and polished interface designs.Design thoughtful loading, empty, error, progress and recovery states.Build and maintain a consistent product design system.Design responsive experiences for desktop and tablet-sized devices.Use customer feedback and usability testing to improve existing workflows.Work closely with engineering to ensure designs are practical, buildable and implemented to a high standard.Where appropriate, contribute to frontend implementation and reusable UI components.

5+ years of professional UI/UX or product design experience.At least 2 years designing complex web applications, creative tools or interaction-heavy software.A strong portfolio showing complete product workflows, not only polished screens.Strong UX, interaction design, visual design and information architecture skills.Experience designing responsive applications across desktop and tablet.Experience creating and maintaining design systems.Ability to simplify complex workflows without removing important user control.Experience working closely with software engineers from early concepts through production.Strong communication and the ability to explain design decisions clearly.Genuine interest in filmmaking, storytelling, creative technology or AI-powered products. NICE TO HAVES Front-end experience with React, TypeScript or similar technologies.Ability to create functional, high-fidelity prototypes.Experience designing or building video editors, image editors, design tools or media software.Experience with timelines, canvases, layers, keyframes or node-based interfaces.Experience designing AI-enabled or generative-AI products.Knowledge of filmmaking, video production or post-production workflows.Experience with collaborative editing, comments, reviews and approval workflows.Touch, tablet or stylus design experience.Accessibility and usability-testing experience.

Competitive salary benchmarked against early-stage London tech.A genuinely exciting product to direct for - built by filmmakers, for filmmakers, at the frontier of AI.Remote working.A team culture built on craft, speed and ambition. We take the work seriously, not ourselves.The chance to define Cascade’s creative voice and build the function as we grow. OUR PRINCIPLES We hire people who share these values: We build from scratch, we do not maintain the status quo: Builder mindsetEverything we do is in service of the storytellers using our platform: Creator-firstSpeed matters, and so does quality - we do not sacrifice one for the other: Move fast, ship wellWe say what we think, give feedback clearly, and expect the same in return: Honest and directWe use AI at every level, including in how we work and expect our team to do the same: AI-native OUR BRAND VALUES Story first. Always. Every decision exists in service of the story. The technology is the means. The story is the thing. Every product decision, every design choice, every line of copy exists to serve one purpose - getting great stories made.Democratize great filmmaking. Talent is everywhere. Opportunity isn’t. Cascade exists to level the playing field - so the best ideas get made regardless of budget, backing or postcode.Supercharge the human. Don’t replace them. Storytelling is an art. AI is a tool, not a creative director. The best work comes from people with vision, instinct and an understanding of performance, pacing and story. Cascade is designed to supercharge that talent - not replace it.Slick by design. Relentless by nature. Cascade is built to be powerful, intuitive and genuinely easy to use. And we believe things can always be better, so we’ll never stop listening, improving and working to support the people using Cascade.

ABOUT CASCADE Cascade is an AI-native, end-to-end filmmaking platform, built by filmmakers, for filmmakers. In one seamless, web-based environment, creators can go from first idea through script, storyboard, character generation, scene assembly and final edit - without leaving the platform.Our Open Beta is live, and we’ve moved from launch mode into growth - building a roster of creative partners and an audience of independent filmmakers and directors who are making the case for our platform.The creator economy is $250 billion and growing at 22% a year. Over 50 million filmmakers and creators are drowning in fragmented tools and broken workflows. Cascade replaces the stack.