Design Engineer

Profound; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Profound is the fastest-growing AI marketing platform used by 15% of the Fortune 500 including Comcast, Estée Lauder, and Walmart. As a Design Engineer, you will ship polished UI across our core product and marketing sites, collaborating with design, product, and engineering teams to translate ideas into high-fidelity interfaces.

You’ll work with React, Next.js, Tailwind, and TypeScript to deliver pixel-perfect, accessible experiences.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with React, Next.js, Tailwind, and TypeScript in production environments.
• Exceptional CSS skills with a proven ability to build pixel-perfect, resilient user interfaces.
• Strong eye for design and interaction with taste you can both defend and implement.
• Comfortable owning work end to end from early exploration through shipped code.
• Experience working closely with designers and engineers in fast-moving product teams.
• Portfolio that demonstrates high-craft frontend or design engineering work.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship polished, production-quality UI across our core product or marketing site.
• Partner with product designers, product managers, and engineers to translate intent into precise, high-fidelity implementations.
• Craft UI details including layouts, typography, responsiveness, motion, and micro-interactions using Tailwind CSS.
• Contribute occasionally to the marketing site and logged-out experiences while maintaining the same bar for quality and performance.
• Contribute to shared UI foundations including components, patterns, and design tokens.
• Work across the stack using React, Next.js, and TypeScript to deliver fast, reliable interfaces.
• Optimize for performance, accessibility, and maintainability without compromising on design.
• Raise the bar for frontend craft through code reviews, critiques, and shared standards.

Skills

React

Next.js

Tailwind

TypeScript

CSS

Tools

Tailwind CSS

Job description

Profound is the fastest-growing AI marketing platform, used by 15% of the Fortune 500 including Comcast, Estée Lauder, and Walmart, and innovators like Ramp, MongoDB, and Figma. It is where marketing teams do the work: research, briefs, content, campaigns, reporting, all in one place, alongside agents that carry the load with them.

Built on 2B+ real user prompts and growing, Profound’s data shows you what people ask AI and what the models say back. Profound's AI Marketer joins that data with deep context about our customers to find the opportunities worth acting on, and then puts agents to work: automating reporting, drafting content, auditing pages for readability, running competitive research. It measures what works and gets better every day.

Design engineering is core to how we build at Profound. Our founder, Dylan Babbs, started his career as a design engineer, and we hold a high bar for craft, taste, and execution. As a Design Engineer, you will work between design and engineering by shipping high-quality, highly polished experiences across our product and, at times, our marketing surfaces.

What you’ll do

Build and ship polished, production-quality UI across our core product or marketing site

Partner with product designers, product managers, and engineers to translate intent into precise, high-fidelity implementations

Craft UI details including layouts, typography, responsiveness, motion, and micro-interactions using Tailwind CSS

Contribute occasionally to the marketing site and logged-out experiences while maintaining the same bar for quality and performance

Contribute to shared UI foundations including components, patterns, and design tokens

Work across the stack using React, Next.js, and TypeScript to deliver fast, reliable interfaces

Optimize for performance, accessibility, and maintainability without compromising on design

Raise the bar for frontend craft through code reviews, critiques, and shared standards

Who you are

Strong experience with React, Next.js, Tailwind, and TypeScript in production environments

Exceptional CSS skills with a proven ability to build pixel-perfect, resilient user interfaces

Strong eye for design and interaction with taste you can both defend and implement

Comfortable owning work end to end from early exploration through shipped code

Experience working closely with designers and engineers in fast-moving product teams

Portfolio that demonstrates high-craft frontend or design engineering work

Thrive in a startup environment that values speed, iteration, and quality

Enjoy experimenting and working on side projects to stay current with leading edge technologies

Strong product thinking and builder mindset, comfortable working across design, product, and engineering to ship work

Can just do things

Note from our co-founder

In the evolving landscape of product development, exceptional design is not merely a nice-to-have, it is foundational. As software engineering becomes increasingly accessible, it is taste, creativity, and thoughtful execution that differentiate outstanding products from the rest.

I believe deeply that design sits at the core of our success. At Profound, my goal is to build a design team renowned for setting a new standard of excellence, crafting experiences so compelling they become benchmarks in our industry.

If you are someone who believes in the transformative power of great design and wants to create work that genuinely shapes the future, join us. Let’s redefine what’s possible together.

Dylan Babbs, Co-founder & CTO

Location

This is an on-site role based in our NYC or Buenos Aires office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and meaningful impact.

For this role, the expected base salary range is $120,000 to $250,000 (NYC). Comp may vary by location. Profound’s total compensation package is designed to be competitive and includes base salary, equity, and a full range of benefits and perks. Final compensation will depend on factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location, and will be determined during the interview process. Our recruiting team will share more details about the full compensation package and benefits as you move through hiring.

Note: All official communication from Profound will come from a @tryprofound.com email address. If you're contacted by anyone using a different domain, please disregard and report it as spam.