16h ago

Founding Design Engineer

San Francisco

$100k-$250k / year

full-timesoftware

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll own the full visual and interactive experience of Jinba's platform, building a design system and motion that makes complex workflows intuitive. Your core impact is shaping how enterprise users interact with AI-native software as the first dedicated design hire. You'll ship production code alongside the engineering team.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Design and build Jinba's design system: components, tokens, patterns, and documentation
  • Own UI/UX for core product surfaces, from concept through implementation
  • Create motion design that guides users through workflow creation and execution
  • Write clean, maintainable frontend code using shadcn/ui and modern React patterns

📋 Requirements

  • Strong product design sense with portfolio showing end-to-end ownership
  • Proficient in React/TypeScript; you ship your own designs
  • Experience building or significantly contributing to a design system
  • Motion design ability: understand timing, easing, and how animation communicates state

✨ Nice to Have

  • Experience with developer tools, no-code platforms, or workflow/automation products
  • Background combining design and engineering
  • Experience at companies like Figma, Linear, Notion, Retool, Vercel

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 💰 Equity
  • 🏢 Onsite in San Francisco
  • 🌱 Early-stage startup growth
  • 🤝 International team across SF and Tokyo
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