Senior Product Design Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Product Design Engineer based in the United States.

• Lead complex product design and design engineering initiatives from ideation and problem definition through implementation, release, and post-launch evaluation, establishing clear goals and success criteria.
• Translate product concepts and visual designs into high-quality, production-ready experiences by working directly in the codebase and partnering closely with front-end engineers.
• Create detailed prototypes, mockups, interaction specifications, and coded explorations that communicate design intent and demonstrate expected behavior.
• Help maintain and raise the product quality bar across consumer experiences, identifying gaps between intended designs and shipped functionality and driving improvements to resolution.
• Contribute to and evolve design systems across both design and code, including token structures, semantic naming, primitives, components, and consistency between design sources and implementation.
• Develop tools, workflows, and practices that improve the speed, consistency, and quality of both design and engineering work.
• Apply strong expertise in interaction and motion design, including transitions, easing, spring physics, and real-world interaction behavior, to create refined user experiences.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and engineers as a peer, contributing to technical discussions, code reviews, product decisions, and implementation strategy.
• Use qualitative and quantitative research, experimentation, and product instrumentation to validate decisions and measure the impact of design solutions.
• Help shape the design engineering discipline by establishing effective practices, sharing knowledge, and identifying opportunities to improve collaboration between design and engineering.
• Use AI and agentic tools thoughtfully within design and project workflows to accelerate execution while maintaining strong judgment, quality, accessibility, and human-centered design principles.

• 7+ years of experience in product design, design engineering, or closely related roles, including at least 2 years operating at a senior level within significant consumer-facing or global brands.
• Strong ability to communicate visual and interaction concepts through polished mockups, prototypes, design rationale, and clear written and verbal communication.
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with engineers as a peer, participate meaningfully in code reviews, reason through implementation decisions, and contribute code when appropriate.
• Experience prototyping directly in code to a production-quality standard, with strong knowledge of semantic markup, accessibility, and modern front-end practices.
• Deep understanding of interaction and motion as implemented behavior, including easing, spring physics, transitions, and responsive or interruptible interactions.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining sophisticated design systems, including token architecture, primitives, semantic naming, component structures, and alignment between design and code.
• Experience defining product requirements and creating tools or workflows that improve design and engineering efficiency while preserving quality and consistency.
• Proven ability to independently manage projects of varying complexity, from initial proposal and scoping through execution, launch, and measurement.
• Strong research and experimentation skills, with the ability to combine qualitative and quantitative insights and instrument work to measure outcomes.
• Experience writing creative briefs that clearly articulate project goals, rationale, requirements, and success metrics for diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated initiative, sound judgment, and ownership, with the ability to navigate ambiguous problems, generate ideas, and move projects forward with urgency and discretion.
• Comfortable incorporating AI and agentic tools into everyday design and project workflows while maintaining strong independent judgment and quality standards.
• Collaborative, transparent, and adaptable communication style, with a strong ability to work effectively across disciplines.

• Annual compensation: $178,500 USD, plus stock options.
• Compensation transparency: Compensation is standardized within professional levels regardless of geographic location or team.
• Healthcare: Company-sponsored health benefits are available to eligible team members based in the United States.
• Paid parental leave and broader wellbeing support.
• Office setup and co-working allowances to support effective remote work.
• Flexible working arrangements with no core hours and an expected average full-time commitment of approximately 40 hours per week.
• Remote-first environment with opportunities for meaningful autonomy and end-to-end ownership.
• Team events: Attendance at approximately...