About the Role
As one of our first Design Engineers, you will bridge the gap between design and development by crafting expressive, performant, and accessible interfaces that bring our products to life. You will be given functional requirements and the autonomy to determine how they should come to life for the end user, turning ambiguity into clear, intuitive interfaces and establishing the design foundation before partnering with the engineering team to bring it into production. Beyond product interfaces, you will have opportunities to contribute across the full design spectrum, including crafting brand identities, designing landing pages and marketing campaigns, and shaping how Scope and our clients present themselves across digital touchpoints.
Responsibilities
- Own Features from Ambiguity to Execution: Take functional requirements, business goals, and user needs and determine how they should come together as a clear, intuitive end-to-end experience.
- Design in Figma and Code: Move fluidly between design tools and the browser, creating polished interfaces, working prototypes, and production-ready front-end code using React, TypeScript, and modern CSS frameworks.
- Shape the User Experience: Make thoughtful decisions about information architecture, workflows, responsive behavior, edge cases, empty states, and feedback patterns.
- Craft Delightful Experiences: Focus on the details that make products feel effortless: motion, responsiveness, and tactile feedback.
- Build Reusable Systems: Create and maintain reusable components, UI primitives, patterns, and design-system foundations.
- Establish Best Practices: Advocate for high-quality front-end architecture, accessibility standards, and thoughtful animation.
- Prototype Fearlessly: Explore, experiment, and test by building solutions.
- Contribute Beyond Product Design: Help shape brand identities, landing pages, marketing websites, launch campaigns, pitch decks, sales materials, visual systems, and other creative work.
- Improve How We Work: Help establish design-engineering standards, improve internal workflows, evolve shared libraries, and identify new tools or processes.
- Communicate with Clients: Present work clearly, explain design and technical decisions, gather feedback, and help clients move from unclear requirements toward confident product decisions.
- Operate with Ownership: Manage your work independently, surface risks early, and take responsibility for ensuring projects meet Scope’s standards.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in product design, front-end development, or a hybrid role such as design engineer, creative developer, UI engineer, or product designer with strong coding ability.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating polished digital products, thoughtful interaction design, and high-quality front-end implementation.
- Strong product judgment and the ability to make confident decisions around hierarchy, usability, information architecture, and interaction patterns.
- Experience building with React or React frameworks like Next.js.
- Strong command of responsive design, cross-browser behavior, and modern layout systems.
- Proficiency in Figma, including components, variants, auto layout, prototyping, and design-system workflows.
- Understanding of motion design principles; ability to express them with libraries like Framer Motion, React Spring, or GSAP.
- Familiarity with performance optimization, page speed, rendering behavior, and front-end best practices.
- Comfort working across the full feature lifecycle, from early exploration and prototyping through engineering collaboration, QA, and launch.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain design decisions to designers, engineers, product leaders, and clients.
- Self-starter with high ownership, strong attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-moving environment.
Skills
- Figma
- React
- TypeScript
- CSS
- Framer Motion
- React Spring
- GSAP
- Next.js
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Contract to Hire
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Benefits
About the Company
- Scope Labs is an innovative technology company committed to providing cutting-edge solutions to empower businesses to reach their full potential.
- We specialize in delivering high-impact technical products and services that span across various industries, helping our clients elevate their offerings, engage customers, and build brand loyalty.
- Our team is made up of passionate professionals who thrive on creativity, collaboration, and driving measurable success for our clients and ourselves.
- We’re currently a small team passionate about developing the next generation of digital products.
- Our founding team spent has experience building, designing, and scaling products at places like Google, Tesla, Palantir, MIT, Finary (YC W21), Scale AI, etc.
- We’re a remote-friendly team with a majority of us working from warm and sunny New York City.
Equal Opportunity
- Scope Labs is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in its workforce.
- We actively encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace fosters innovation and creativity, and we welcome candidates who share our values of respect, collaboration, and excellence.
