ABOUT PONDER
We are a small group of talented filmmakers, deeply technical engineers, and creative technologists from NYU ITP based in New York City crafting a video creation tool for creative professionals.
Founded by Timothy Wang (creative technologist @ITP, exited founder & filmmaker) and Tim Tan (full-stack engineer, YouTuber, ex-Amazon, Karat, and graduate of Georgia Tech)
Our mission is to make creating video lightning fast, with creative control. We raised $2.5M from top VCs to do so.
We're backed by Matt Hartman (the first investor of Hugging Face), Emery Wells (founder of Frame.io, exited to Adobe for $1.4B), Aaron Levie (CEO of Box), and many other institutional investors, filmmakers, and creators.
More on our story here.
THESIS
Our wedge is to solve real video manipulation (rough cut generation, auto-filling clips as you're editing, video-inpainting, video2video) before adding more generative capabilities. This is what creative professionals want today. We believe manipulation of real video gives them—and us—the most control.
The UX of video creation will look vastly different from existing software.
If you're pondering these questions, love creating interfaces, think deeply about human-computer interaction in the AI era, and are passionate about art and software alike, you should apply to be our founding designer.
We have 25,000+ creatives who've signed up for our waitlist and are eager to use the software you design.
THE ROLE
As founding designer, you will own 100% of Ponder's design. You'll create Ponder's mockups, design systems, UI/UX, and influence our branding and team culture.
The pay will be $70-120K & flexible depending on experience, with founding team level equity. We work fully in-person in our NYC midtown office six days a week.
What we’re looking for