Founding UX/Design Engineer (Contract-to-Hire)

deepline.com•New York, NY

7h•Onsite

About The Position

Deepline is seeking a Founding UX/Design Engineer to join their team. This role involves designing and building the user interface and experience for a CLI interface and API that connects to over 40 GTM providers. The ideal candidate will have strong opinions about design and the ability to implement them in production code. The role is initially a 3-month contract with the potential for conversion to a full-time founding team member position. The company values craft as a competitive advantage and aims to create a magical experience for both humans and agents interacting with their product. The initial product lives in the terminal, but the goal is to scale to a much larger user base, requiring a refined and intuitive user experience.

Requirements

Shipped production UI that you designed and built.
Proficiency in React/Next.js and Tailwind CSS.
Strong opinions about typography, spacing, color, and motion, and the ability to implement them in code.
Experience building with shadcn/ui, Radix, or Framer Motion.
Understanding of component architecture beyond just styling.
Attention to detail regarding loading states, empty states, error states, transitions, and hover interactions.
Ability to build at the level of companies like Linear, Vercel, or Stripe.
Desire to define a product's visual language from day one.
A portfolio, side project, or Dribbble showcasing your work.

Responsibilities

Design and build the marketing site, establishing the visual identity of Deepline.
Refresh the product UI, including dashboards for usage monitoring, team management, provider configuration, and cost/usage analytics.
Design and build a scalable component library.
Make decisions about information hierarchy to improve customer understanding of the product.
Ship the multi-agent onboarding flow, including interactive tutorials, CLI output formatting, and helpful error messages.
Create visual content for product launches.
Own the visual identity, ensuring immediate recognition of Deepline.
Own the product UI/UX for dashboards, workflow builders, provider config, and cost/usage analytics.
Own the design system, including component library, typography, color, spacing, and motion.
Own the developer experience layer, including CLI output formatting, error messages, and onboarding flows.
Create visual content for launches, including product announcements, social assets, changelogs, and demo videos.
Manage Deepline's web presence, including the marketing site, documentation, and interactive demos.