Design Engineer

Visa Hunt; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental & vision

401(k) matching

Flexible time off

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Wispr is seeking a product designer to craft voice-first interfaces across desktop and mobile. You will collaborate with product engineers, designers, and founders to shape how Flow feels and works, not just how it looks.

You will define interaction patterns, prototype new paradigms, and help the company ship consistent UI/UX at scale. Candidates should love understanding users and obsessing over tiny details.

Qualifications

• Design across voice-first interfaces for multiple devices.
• Collaborate with product, engineers, and founders to shape Flow.
• Define interaction patterns and contribute to system design.
• Prototype new paradigms to improve user experience at scale.
• Interact with users to inform design decisions and iterate.

Responsibilities

• Design interfaces for voice-first interactions across devices.
• Have a key voice in the direction of the product roadmap.
• Build new interactions paradigms on top of frontier models for next-gen HCI.
• Build systems to enable the whole company to ship better UI/UX.
• Talk to customers, observe them, and obsessively improve the product.

Skills

Voice UI

UI/UX design

Interaction design

Prototyping

User research

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design

Tools

Figma

Storybook

React

SCSS

Job description

About Wispr

We're building the first voice interface a billion people use every day.

Our first product, Flow, lets you talk instead of type anywhere on your computer or phone, and turns messy speech into polished text that is ready to send. It's scaled from $2M $50M in ARR in under 12 months with millions of users and thousands of enterprise customers. How we think

The team is still small enough that every person shapes what gets built.

About the Role

Design is not what it looks like. Design is how it works.

Wispr Flow is one of the most loved products out there — not just among Silicon Valley techies, but among the average person. And since we're a layer on top of every app, we have a major responsibility to make it feel delightful and never break their flow. Pun intended.

That constraint forced us to invent new interaction paradigms: the floating Flow Bar on desktop, the Flow Bubble on Android, the voice keyboard on iOS. Without design engineers as influential voices in the company, none of this would be possible.

And we have a number of challenges ahead of us: interaction patterns for our upcoming products across devices, AI-first design systems that keep velocity up as we lean into agentic coding, and the foundations of how the next generation of software looks and feels.

You'd work closely with product engineers, designers, and our founders, Tanay and Sahaj. A big reason Flow feels the way it does is that they care about getting the smallest details perfect.

What you'll do?

• Design interfaces for voice-first interactions across devices.

• Have a key voice in the direction of the product roadmap.

• Build new interactions paradigms on top of the frontier models we're building for next-gen HCI.

• Build systems to enable the whole company to ship better UI/UX.

• Talk to customers, observe them, and then obsessively make the product better for them.

This role is perfect for you if:

• You have strong opinions about what makes an interface feel right, and the ability to defend them.

• You notice if a single pixel is off on the screen.

• You would be embarrassed to ship a non-seamless UI.

• You look at existing user interfaces and think: "Ahh, I wish I could just make this better".

• You aim to deeply understand the users, their emotions, and love to craft the journey to take them on.

Tech Stack: React, TypeScript, SCSS modules, Storybook, Motion, Lottie, Lucide, Figma

Logistics

Location. About 60% of the team is in San Francisco and the rest are remote, mostly US-based.

• If you're in SF: you'll be in the office most days. We think the best work happens in person. Most of the team is here five days a week, and a few do three or four days depending on family or long commutes.

• If you're remote: we're open to remote for some roles. We fly remote teammates to SF for three to four days a month.

Visa sponsorship. We sponsor visas: H1B, O1, EB1, L1, STEM + OPT, and more. We can't successfully sponsor for every role and every candidate, but if we make you an offer we'll make every reasonable effort, and we retain an immigration law firm to help.

What we offer

We're a small, focused team that cares deeply about the quality of our work and the people we do it with. Here's what you can expect:

• Equity on employee-friendly terms, including extended exercise windows and a combination of ISOs and RSUs. Ask us for more details!

• Health, dental and vision. We cover 100% of the premium on the Anthem Blue Cross Gold PPO, and 75% of premiums for dependents. (US only)

• 401(k) with up to a 4% match. (US only)

• Flexible time off and company holidays.

• All meals in the office, plus commuter benefits and relocation reimbursement if you're moving to San Francisco.

• A high-spec laptop, monitor, and a whisper-friendly microphone.

• Regular team events and off-sites.

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave (12 weeks for non-birthing parent). The early days with a new baby matter more than anything we're doing here, and we want you to be present for them.

We are committed to ensuring a fair and accessible interview process. If you need any accommodations or adjustments, please let us know.