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About the Role

You will be the Lead Design Engineer, reporting to the head of Product Design. You will collaborate with the Builder Experience team in Engineering, working at the intersection of code and design. Your impact will be felt across the design system, product, and web experiences, and you will mentor designers in hybrid ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary force behind the codebase with design support in Figma, building, maintaining, documenting, and evolving shared components, tokens, and patterns.
• Design highly interactive components and translate design specs into production-quality code with precise attention to spacing, color, typography, motion, and interaction behavior.
• Partner with product designers to close the gap between Figma designs and shipped product, attending crits, giving feedback, and helping them consider edge cases and technical realities.
• Review designer PRs that touch shared UI surfaces and design system contributions from feature engineers.
• Move the accessibility of our product forward through direct contributions and by serving as a resource to teams.
• Unblock product squads by providing flexible and opinionated components that enforce consistency.
• Maintain and improve design system documentation for self-service by engineers and designers.
• Contribute to the evolution of ways of working to foster creativity while adhering to system and standards.

Requirements

• 8+ years building products with experience in both design and engineering.
• A portfolio, live project links, slide deck, or video walk-through to demonstrate technical skill and design taste.
• Experience building or maintaining a production-scale product design system, including tokens, component APIs, versioning, migration paths, and documentation.
• High-polish front-end skills including motion.
• Fluent in Figma, capable of creating necessary resources for designers.
• Clear communication across media, ensuring consumers understand how to use the design system.

Skills

• Modern React (hooks, composition patterns)
• Strongly-typed component API design
• CSS modules
• CSS custom properties (semantic tokens)
• Accessibility knowledge (keyboard navigation, focus management, screen reader behavior, ARIA labels)
• Figma

Location

• San Francisco, CA
• Remote

Work Type

• Remote
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Lead

Salary/Compensations

• $247,000 - $280,000

Benefits

• Generous healthcare package
• 401k matching program
• Catered lunches
• Flexible vacation time

About the Company

• Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio, designed for the age of AI.
• The company has 150 employees and is backed by investors including OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, and Spark Capital.
• Descript has product-market fit and significant growth potential, offering employees a chance to influence the company's direction.

Equal Opportunity

• Descript is an equal opportunity workplace, committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.
• The company actively builds a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to foster employee, product, and community thriving.