Design Engineer, Product

Vercel San Diego, CA , San Diego County, CA

Posted 4 days ago

Vercel’s Frontend Cloud provides the developer experience and infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. Customers like Under Armour, eBay, The Washington Post, Johnson & Johnson, and Zapier use Vercel to build dynamic user experiences on the web.

At Vercel, our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products and that goes hand in hand with creating an environment where you can do the best work of your life. About the role: The design team at Vercel is comprised of capable and considerate humans working to solve challenges that are unique, complex, and nuanced—just like the web.

Vercel is looking for an experienced individual to join the Design Engineering team at Senior or Staff level. The Design Engineering team is responsible for the highest level of polish, creativity and interaction on Vercel. You will work across the Vercel product, shaping the future of our Developer Experience platform.

Youll be leading design initiatives and creating thoughtful, innovative systems-based solutions for the future of Vercel. Designers at Vercel have broad creative license, and the freedom to create and lead new, design-driven projects. If you are someone who gets excited about the possibility of creative development, uncovering insights to drive conversion, improving user experience, experimenting, and personalizing, then this might be the right role for you.

What you will do: • Report to our Director of Design Engineering, help Vercel further its core product, and enter new markets through design leadership and engineering partnership. • Contribute to the design process by gathering requirements, planning and ideating from the start of a project. • Demonstrate an understanding of the development workflow, how to streamline processes, and involve other stakeholders. • Work with designers and other partners to collaborate on design ideation and ensure high-quality implementations. • Help lead the technical roadmap for the product, championing iterative improvements to browser performance, accessibility, and usability. • Provide design systems feedback and iteration to help empower the entire company with a first-class experience. • Advocate for and mentor other designers and engineers. • Help grow the team and elevate design within the company. About you: • Depth and quality of your experience is more important than years. That said, successful candidates typically have at least 5 years of development experience. • Strong programming skills, experience with application development, and excellent troubleshooting skills. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a keen eye for detail • Excellent understanding of Next.js and Vercel, CMS platforms like Contentful, analytics platforms like Heap, and design tools like Figma. • Skills and understanding on graphic design (layout, typography, color, illustration). • Perfectionism with the experience (polish, readability, accessibility, performance). • Experience working in or with Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. • You have closely collaborated with folks from marketing and design in previous roles. Benefits : • Great compensation package and stock options. • Inclusive Healthcare Package. • Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills. • Flexible Time Off

  • Flexible vacation policy with a recommended 4-weeks per year, and paid holidays. • Remote Friendly

  • Work with teammates from different time zones across the globe. • We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

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