Design Engineer

Confido Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity — own a meaningful piece of the

Fully paid health coverage

Top-tier dental and vision coverage

Fertility and family-forming support

12 weeks of paid parental leave

Unlimited PTO with long weekends

401(k) through Vestwell

Relocation assistance to NYC

Workspace stipend and setup

Catered team lunches and snacks

Job summary

Confido is building the operating system for CPG brands, covering demand planning, finance, accounting, and sales in one platform. You will shape the product and contribute to the design system within a small NYC team.

This role blends design and front-end engineering, working closely with product and engineering to ship features rapidly, with an emphasis on thoughtful UX, layout, motion, and high‑polish interfaces. NYC relocation offered.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience across design and front-end in B2B SaaS or complex workflows.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong product thinking and craft.
• Ability to make large, ambiguous projects feel simple and shipped.
• Experience with startups and shipping features quickly.
• Familiarity with AI tools in design workflows.

Responsibilities

• Shape the strategic direction of product and feature roadmaps.
• Build working prototypes and validate with real customers.
• Partner with engineering to define, prototype and ship features rapidly.
• Refine design details and contribute to the design system.
• Deliver high-quality work under real constraints.

Skills

Product thinking

Front-end engineering

UX/UI design

Portfolio

AI tools usage

Tools

Cursor

ClaudeCode

Job description

Confido is the AI infrastructure powering modern CPG — the platform that 200+ brands like OLIPOP, Simple Mills, Dr. Squatch, and Tropicana use to run everything from deductions to production planning. Finance, accounting, sales, and operations, unified in one system for the first time.

We're growing 5x year over year with a small team in New York City; the people who join now will shape the product, the culture, and the company itself.

If you want your work on shelves everywhere — and outsized ownership while you build — we'd love to meet you.

The Role

We're building the operating system for CPG brands, covering demand planning, finance, accounting, and sales in one platform. Design here means owning real surface area across a complex, interconnected product, not shipping buttons in isolation.

We're a small team that moves fast, communicates directly, and sweats the details. You'll work closely with product and engineering to define not just what things look like, but how the whole experience fits together.

What you'll do

• Shape the strategic direction of product and feature roadmaps, not just execute them
• Build working prototypes early, put them in front of real customers, and use what you learn to reshape the feature before it's fully built out
• Partner tightly with engineering and product to define, prototype, and ship—often all in the same week
• Sweat the details, the hundreds of small decisions that make a complex operator tool feel effortless instead of overwhelming
• Take validated patterns and refine them directly in code, contributing back into the design system
• Find ways to ship great work under real constraints. Scrappily, not sloppily

What you bring

• 3–5 years of experience across both design and front-end engineering, ideally in B2B SaaS, enterprise tools, or complex workflow products
• A portfolio that demonstrates strong product thinking, polished craft, and the ability to make hard problems feel simple
• Track record of seeing large, ambiguous projects through from zero to shipped
• Active use of tools like Cursor and ClaudeCode, with clear opinions on how to get high-quality output from them
• A strong eye for design, with deep care for layout, motion, affordances, and visual polish
• Direct communication style; you influence through the quality of your thinking, not org chart position
• You’ll stand out if you ship opinionated work and defend it with taste and data
• Active, non‑gimmicky use of AI tools in your day‑to‑day workflow
• Interest in defining interaction patterns for how people work alongside AI agents
• Treat ambiguity as an invitation, not a blocker
• Stay current on AI research and tools, shown in your design process
• Designed for financial, enterprise, or other domains that require complex systems thinking previously
• Have experience in high‑growth startups

Perks + Benefits

• Equity — own a meaningful piece of the company you’re helping build
• Fully paid health coverage through Aetna — we cover 100% of employee premiums
• Top‑tier dental and vision coverage through Guardian
• Carrot Fertility Pro — comprehensive fertility and family‑forming support
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Unlimited PTO — plus regular 4‑day holiday weekends we actually take
• 401(k) through Vestwell
• Paid relocation support — we’ll help you make the move to NYC
• Fully equipped workspace from day one — laptop, monitor, keyboard, and a $200 stipend to personalize your setup
• Team perks — catered Friday lunches, team dinners, and unlimited coffee + snacks featuring products from the brands we work with

Learn more about Design at Confido here

Confido provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.