Design Engineer

Does this sound like you?

• Note: You are a rockstar frontend engineer foremost, who has an especially strong grasp of product intuition, UX and Design.
• Hungry and wants their shot to change the world - a force of nature when empowered with the tools, resources and development to do it.
• Bored and frustrated at big companies; feel held back by red tape, bureaucracy and poor decisions.
• Keen to understand the big picture & entire context of the company and vertical; has a sense of urgency for growth towards a senior executive role.
• Have hacked together a cool project in the past, that did something useful, and want to relive that feeling of accomplishment (everyday!).
• High sigma product intuition and empathy - an uncanny ability to intuit the deepest anxieties and opportunities for user joy even with minimal user research.
• Obsessed with optimising UX: quickly able to understand the needs of our users and translate deep anxieties and latent opportunities for excitement and joy into optimal UX flows.
• Exceptional attention to detail & an eye for aesthetics that ensure a careful & thorough approach to Figma mockups.
• An excellent communicator: concisely and clearly communicate designs to the team both verbally and through the materials you produce (sketches, wireframes, prototypes etc.)
• Able to understand and distil complex concepts & processes and make them accessible for our users in the form of simple, elegant user flows and interactions.
• Able to work in an iterative design process, guided by user feedback & company goals; motivated and energised by group critique.
• Seeks to maximise not only self productivity, but combined team productivity, communicating the right things at the right time through the right channels (verbal/Slack/Notion).
• Intellectually curious and loves learning - able to tackle entirely novel challenges that lack prior precedent through applying strong design fundamentals and first principles thinking, creatively using the best tools for the job to maximise user delight.
• Familiarity with Figma and/or hungry to learn.
• We don’t enforce any particular experience level, but you’ll need to demonstrate most of the above through past projects and/or our assessment process.