Lead Design Engineer

Job Description

Lead Design Engineer

Why We Exist

Sales and GTM teams are watching traditional outbound collapse. In a world where anyone can send millions of personalized AI emails in one click, the teams winning are going deeper with their relationships — in person.

We're building the platform for that. We've launched the fastest and most cost-effective way to book immersive in-person events at the best venues. Some of the largest companies in the world are customers. We have meaningful signed distribution deals and we're moving fast.

We're hiring a founding design engineer to make it all feel inevitable.

The Role

You've seen it happen too many times: a beautiful design gets handed off, and what ships is just adequate. The timing is slightly off. The easing is wrong. The magic dies in the last mile.

So you stopped handing things off.

You're a designer who codes or an engineer with designer-level taste — the distinction stopped mattering to you a while ago. You dream it up, design it, and build it. No translation layer, no fidelity loss. The vision in your head is the thing that ships.

You're the entire front-end design function: systems thinking and pixel-level craft, information architecture and micro-interactions, prototypes and production code.

How You Work

You're fluent in AI-assisted development tools and you use them to move at speeds that weren't possible two years ago. An idea to working prototype to production in hours, not weeks. But you know AI gets you to 85%. The last 15%, the timing, the easing, the details that make someone stop and think "wait, this feels different," that's where you do your best work.

You talk to users, test constantly, and build conviction without slowing down. Shipping fast and learning fast aren't tradeoffs for you.

What You'll Own

Brand and design system. You'll build a scalable design system from the ground up — color, typography, spacing, motion, iconography, component architecture. Every decision compounds across the product.

Product design at speed. You're capable in Figma when it matters, but the mockup isn't the product — the shipped code is. You design just enough to think clearly, then you build.

The front-end, end to end. Web app, landing pages, decks — eventually mobile. You design it and you build it.

The details that matter. The search bar that takes over the screen. The transition that feels alive. The micro-interactions that make users feel like someone cared.

Systems and features in parallel. You're building a design system while you're shipping product. You see the whole system and the individual pixel at the same time.

User signal. Testing constantly, learning fast, killing what doesn't work.

What We're Looking For

You want to own something completely. You've built the skills to go from vision to shipped product yourself, and you're looking for a place where that's the expectation, not the exception.

Your portfolio has things you designed and built — and you can't always tell which came first.

You're already using AI tools to multiply your output without sacrificing craft.

You're hard-working, curious, and you believe how a product feels is a real competitive advantage.

Details

5 days/week in our Palo Alto office. OPT support available; not currently sponsoring H1B.

Full-time