Staff Design Engineer
This Staff Design Engineer role combines visual product design with frontend implementation, including challenging UX work, design-system development, and iterative feature delivery. The role requires professional Design Engineering experience, major design-system contributions, and the ability to ship polished features used by hundreds of users.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and code product features, combining strong visual design with technical implementation.
- Work on challenging product design problems and improve the in-house design system.
- Consult with Product Engineers on bespoke design work.
- Conduct customer conversations, wireframe flows, implement design systems, and turn wireframes into polished user interfaces.
- Build flexible, composable components for setup wizards and other product experiences.
- Improve information hierarchy and scannability in product designs.
- Ship iteratively, gather feedback from users, and use feedback and business needs to prioritize improvements.
- Participate in customer issue resolution and investigations.
Requirements
- Professional experience practicing Design Engineering or a comparable combination of design and engineering.
- Major contributions to a design system.
- Experience designing and implementing features used by hundreds of users and iterating based on user feedback.
- Excellent visual design taste and execution.
- Strong proficiency in both design and engineering, with exceptional proficiency in the discipline practiced full-time.
- Ability to work independently with minimal process and structure.
- Collaborative communication and ownership of product and design decisions.
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range: $256,000–$380,000.
- Work on a product serving more than 100,000 weekly active users and millions of candidates per week.
- Regular-hours engineering culture with a small, talented team.
- Investment in tools and abstractions.
Skills
UI Design, UX Design, Frontend Engineering, Design Systems, Wireframing, Visual Design, User Research, Product Design, User Testing, Software Engineering
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