Design Engineer

Vercel; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading web development company is seeking a Senior or Staff Design Engineer. The role involves shaping Vercel.com and various marketing surfaces while collaborating cross-functionally. Candidates should have strong programming skills, familiarity with Next.js, and experience in SaaS. A competitive compensation package is offered, including equity and benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Qualifications

• At least 5+ years of development experience.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in SaaS companies.

Responsibilities

• Drive design leadership and engineering excellence on multiple platforms.
• Shape modular systems for repeatable marketing use cases.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure project success.

Skills

Strong programming skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Experience with application development

Familiarity with growth experimentation

Understanding of graphic design

Tools

Next.js

Figma

CMS platforms like Payload

Analytics platforms like Amplitude or Heap

Job description

Vercel gives developers the tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. As the team behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, Vercel helps customers like Ramp, Supreme, PayPal, and Under Armour build for the AI-native web.

Our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products. That starts with creating a place where everyone can do their best work. Whether you're building on our platform, supporting our customers, or shaping our story: You can just ship things.

About the role:

The design team at Vercel is comprised of capable and considerate humans working to solve challenges that are unique, complex, and nuanced—just like the web. Vercel is looking for an experienced individual to join the Design Engineering team at Senior or Staff level. The Design Engineering team is responsible for the highest level of polish, creativity and interaction on Vercel.

You will work across the logged out experience of Vercel, shaping the future of Vercel.com, events, and marketing surfaces that introduce the world to Vercel. You'll work on design initiatives and create thoughtful, innovative, systems-based solutions for top-of-funnel experiences, working closely with design, marketing, sales, GTM, Analytics, product design, and engineering.

Designers at Vercel have broad creative license, and the freedom to create and lead new, design-driven projects. If you are someone who gets excited about the possibility of creative development, uncovering insights to drive conversion, improving user experience, experimenting, and personalizing, then this might be the right role for you.

What you will do:

• Report to our Director of Design Engineering and help Vercel strengthen its acquisition surfaces by driving design leadership and engineering excellence on vercel.com, events, and related experiences.
• Contribute to the design process by gathering requirements, planning and ideating from the start of a project, and shaping modular systems for repeatable marketing and growth use cases.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the development workflow, CMS and analytics integrations (Payload, Rudderstack, Clearbit, Sequel.io, etc.), and how to streamline processes with cross-functional partners.
• Work with designers, marketers, and engineers to collaborate on ideation and ensure high-quality, performant implementations across campaigns and pages.
• Provide design systems feedback and iteration to help empower the entire company with a first-class, consistent web experience.
• Advocate for and mentor other design engineers, sharing best practices in frontend craft, animation, experimentation, and performance.
• Help grow the team and elevate design and engineering within the company.

About you:

• Depth and quality of your experience is more important than years. That said, successful candidates typically have at least 5+ years of development experience.
• Strong programming skills, experience with application development, and excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a keen eye for detail
• Excellent understanding of Next.js and Vercel, CMS platforms like Payload (or Contentful), analytics platforms like Amplitude or Heap, and design tools like Figma.
• Familiarity with growth experimentation, SEO principles, and marketing/brand campaigns.
• Skills and understanding on graphic design (layout, typography, color, illustration).
• Perfectionism with the experience (polish, readability, accessibility, performance).
• Experience working in or with Software as a Service (SaaS) companies.
• You have closely collaborated with folks from marketing and design in previous roles.

Vercel offers a competitive compensation package, including equity, and benefits. The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $200,000.00 - $240,000.00. Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.