Senior Product Design Engineer

Accountabilities

• Own core product surfaces from concept through production, including booking flows, scheduling primitives, and team and enterprise experiences.
• Translate product problems and hypotheses into high-quality designs, prototypes, and production-ready frontend components.
• Build and test working prototypes using modern AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and v0, selecting the fastest approach for answering product and design questions.
• Deliver components that product engineers can use directly, ensuring correct semantics, complete interaction states, accessibility, and production-quality implementation.
• Design, engineer, and maintain custom components and primitives rather than relying on generic third-party UI libraries.
• Continuously improve the shared component library by auditing existing primitives, identifying gaps, refining patterns, and contributing reusable components rather than creating one-off solutions.
• Maintain consistency across tokens, spacing, states, dark mode, motion, and interaction patterns, ensuring every new product surface strengthens the overall design system.
• Apply motion and animation thoughtfully, using it to clarify interactions and improve the experience without adding unnecessary complexity.
• Own outcomes rather than simply delivering design artifacts by framing hypotheses, defining success criteria, supporting implementation, and evaluating results.
• Maintain a high accessibility standard across all work, including keyboard navigation, focus management, semantics, contrast, and motion preferences.
• Refine the details that elevate product quality, including empty states, error messaging, loading behavior, transitions, and other interaction nuances.
• Collaborate openly with product and design leadership, sharing work early, incorporating feedback, and allowing technical and product constraints to inform design decisions.
• Document design thinking and decisions through written documentation, prototypes, and recorded walkthroughs to support effective asynchronous collaboration.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a product designer who has evolved substantially into design engineering, with ownership of complex and ambiguous product areas from problem definition through launch and iteration.
• Exceptional product design craft combined with strong frontend engineering skills in HTML, CSS, TypeScript, and React.
• Demonstrated ability to independently turn product and design concepts into polished, working implementations without relying on another engineer to make ideas production-ready.
• Strong experience designing and engineering custom UI components and primitives, rather than primarily consuming third-party component libraries.
• Deep expertise in headless primitive composition, with experience using Base UI, Radix, or similar technologies; direct experience with open-source component systems is a strong advantage.
• Strong understanding of motion design principles, including timing, easing, choreography, and the judgment to determine when animation adds value.
• Daily experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, v0, or comparable solutions.
• Deep familiarity with web standards and browser-native platform primitives, with the ability to understand what the browser already provides before introducing additional libraries.
• Proven experience building and maintaining design systems, including understanding the distinction between reusable primitives, components, and product-specific patterns.
• Strong accessibility knowledge covering WCAG, ARIA, assistive technologies, keyboard interaction, focus management, and accessible design patterns.
• Ability to understand the technical architecture behind product experiences, including APIs, data models, application state, and technical constraints.
• Strong written communication skills, with an emphasis on clarity and effective asynchronous documentation.
• Collaborative and receptive approach to feedback, with a willingness to share unfinished work, challenge ideas constructively, and adapt designs based on input.
• High-trust, high-autonomy mindset with the ability to thrive in a remote and asynchronous environment without constant supervision.

Nice to have

• Open-source contributions or publicly available side projects demonstrating your design and engineering work.
• Experience with scheduling, calendaring, time zones, or recurrence rules.
• Familiarity with locale- and time-aware web APIs such as Intl.DateTimeFormat.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation: $100,000–$150,000 annual salary, with the same salary range regardless of where you live.
• Equity: Equity included as part of the compensation package.
• Fully remote: Work from anywhere in the world.
• Async-first flexibility: Work according to your own schedule and flow without unnecessary meetings or daily standups.
• High autonomy: No micromanagement, with a strong culture of trust and ownership.
• Work-life flexibility: Take time away for personal and family needs without requiring approval for every interruption.
• Paid time off: 30 paid OOO days per year, regardless of where you are located.
• Team retreats: Annual team retreats in different locations around the world.
• People-first culture: Work in a stable, family-friendly environment focused on trust, kindness, and sustainable high performance.
• AI-enabled workflow: Use modern AI development tools as part of the everyday product and engineering process.
• High-impact work: Shape core product experiences and reusable design infrastructure used by a globally distributed user base.
• Design and engineering ownership: Have meaningful influence over both the product experience and the underlying component system.