JOB-1740
An early-stage developer-tools company is creating its design function from nothing and wants a hybrid designer and front-end engineer who reports to the CEO. The person will set how a new documentation and content-management product looks and behaves, and establish the systems that let engineers ship quickly without lowering the design standard.
The work
- Own product design from start to finish for a tool where technical teams author content together and collaborate with AI agents
- Produce marketing material that tells the product’s story, such as social assets, landing pages and video
- Define a brand and visual identity spanning the product and social channels: typography, color, layout, microinteractions, motion and voice
- Convert that identity into a system engineers and AI tools can both use, with reusable components, design tokens, written guidance and infrastructure defined in code
- Use the company’s own products daily and talk to users to find and remove friction
Profile
- Five to ten years across product design, brand or visual design and front-end work
- Experience as the first or founding designer at a Seed to Series B startup
- Shipped both product and brand design at a B2B SaaS or developer-tools company
- Builds and maintains production UI in code, including Storybook, Tailwind and shadcn
- Strong Figma skills and a portfolio that shows design-system work
- Comfort with ambiguity and little structure
On-site in San Francisco, in the office full time at first and hybrid later. Visa transfers are considered.
