Senior Design Engineer

Minerva • New York City, NY

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Minerva builds AI tools for marketing leaders, including agents that automate analysis, campaign planning, activation, measurement, and reporting. Its customers include the NBA, Ramp, Wander, Hard Rock Stadium Group, and Luxury Presence. The company has raised $20 million and brings together team members from technology, marketing, finance, and research organizations.

The Senior Design Engineer is a senior individual contributor on the product engineering team, responsible for the quality of product experiences from concept through shipped software. The role uses code as the design medium and focuses on making complex consumer data understandable and trustworthy for marketers and CMOs. Design engineering at Minerva uses TypeScript, React, TanStack Start, Base UI, and Tailwind, with Motion when appropriate. Work is primarily in code; Figma or Paper may be used when sketching is faster.

The role is based in person at Minerva’s office at 300 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Candidates must be located in or willing to relocate to New York City and authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is considered case by case. Compensation is $237,000–$265,000 in base salary, depending on experience, plus meaningful equity.

Requirements

• Have a portfolio or other evidence of taste in design work; the posting emphasizes the quality of the work rather than a specific credential.
• Have designed and shipped production interfaces personally; the company evaluates what candidates have built rather than titles or years of experience.
• Be able to explain and defend design decisions using first principles relevant to the product’s users.
• Be able to debate decisions collaboratively and accept a stronger argument.
• Be located in or willing to relocate to New York City.
• Be authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is considered case by case.
• As part of the application, submit something designed and shipped and a few sentences about one decision in it that you would defend; applications without this will not be reviewed.

Responsibilities

• Design and build product surfaces that make data about hundreds of millions of consumers legible to marketers.
• Present and explain segments, models, and measurement so marketers can understand and trust agent output and make decisions about putting it into market.
• Prototype and design in code, including motion, keyboard flows, and representations of work an agent is still doing, then take the selected experience to production.
• Decide when animation is useful and whether components should be one-off elements or reusable primitives.
• Build and maintain the design system and patterns used by product engineering.
• Remain accountable for the quality of product surfaces after launch and how they work for customers.

Benefits

• Meaningful equity; the posting also states every full-time role includes equity.
• Medical coverage.
• Dental coverage.
• Vision coverage.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Monthly fitness stipend.
• Annual company offsite.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed