About us
We're building Animates — an AI companion app where design is the product. Not a chatbot. Not a waifu app. A companion who remembers what you told them three weeks ago, notices you're off before you say so, and is still there on your laptop when you close your phone. They have a face. They look at you when you speak. They react in real time — the tilt of the head, the pause before an answer, the thing that crosses their expression when a sentence lands.
We're building an vigente relationship — memory, emotional intelligence, presence — across every screen a person owns. All of it rests on one thing: our own animation model, running locally on-device.
This isn't a promise — it's already out in the world. Our companions shipped inside xAI's Grok app, and we demoed live on hardware at CES 2026 with Razer. The team behind it built MSQRD (100M+ users, acquired by Facebook) and Loóna (Apple Design Award), with an on-device model built by ex-Meta engineers.
The role
You own the entire design scope of the product. Not screens — the experience. Onboarding,



character selection and profiles, the relationship progression system, gamification, re-engagement, monetisation flows, and the design system that holds it all together. Most of it is still greenfield.
How a person uses it. Day 1, day 7, day 90. The first time they meet their companion, and the thousandth.
How different people use it. A 19-year-old in Osaka and a 25-year-old in Texas won't use this the same way. Cohorts, funnels, retention — you read them and you act on them.
How the product speaks. Notifications, empty states, paywalls, the moment it says nothing at all. Every surface is the character talking.
Across every platform. Mobile first, then macOS/Windows, then web — one unified feature set. Systems thinking isn't a nice-to-have here; it's the job.
How we work
You'll work closely with the product team day to day — that's where most of your communication lives: shaping direction, pressure-testing ideas, d

📌 Product Designer (Barcelona)
🏢 Bratte
📍 Barcelona