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Its mission is grounded in a foundational conviction: that AI must be open, safe, and ultimately owned by the individuals and communities who use it.\nThe Foundation operates across three core mandates:\nAdvancing research into the human-agent relationship while continuously evolving the OpenClaw platform;\n\nMaintaining and hardening the codebase to ensure security, reliability, and long-term sustainability;\n\nEstablishing interoperability standards for the emerging agent era, defining how agents configure, communicate, establish trust, transact, and represent user identity across ecosystems.\n\nModeled after the governance structures that shaped the open web and modern computing infrastructure, the Foundation serves as a neutral, multi-stakeholder convening body - the equivalent of W3C or the Linux Foundation for the agentic AI era. Major laboratories and infrastructure providers collaborate under its umbrella on shared, vendor-neutral infrastructure, with no single organization controlling the roadmap or direction.\nThe OpenClaw Foundation believes that individuals should have full sovereignty over their AI: their data, their interactions, and the behavior and personality of their agents. Open source is not incidental to this mission but central to it - code must remain free to use, modify, and build upon. The future of agentic AI will be defined by a broad, developer-driven community, not prescribed by any single commercial interest.\nThe Role\nThe OpenClaw Foundation is seeking a Head of Design to define the design vision, systems, and experiences that shape how people interact with AI agents.\nThis is a foundational, highly hands-on role for a design leader with exceptional taste and a track record of building and shipping best-in-class products from zero to one. 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You'll set the bar for design quality across consumer experiences, developer tools, and agent interfaces, while creating systems that enable a broader open source ecosystem to build cohesive products.\nWhat You'll Do\nDefine design vision: Establish a distinctive design philosophy and product direction for OpenClaw, setting a high bar for craft, usability, and visual quality.\n\nBuild zero-to-one products: Lead products from concept through prototyping, implementation, and launch, translating emerging AI capabilities into intuitive, best-in-class experiences.\n\nOwn the design system: Build and evolve shared components, design tokens, interaction patterns, and visual standards that scale across products and platforms.\n\nInvent agent interactions: Design new paradigms for delegation, memory, permissions, identity, trust, and human-agent collaboration.\n\nStay hands-on: Personally drive product design, visual exploration, prototyping, and implementation details, partnering directly with 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