Design System Architect — Frontend & AI UI

WRITER; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Parental leave

Fertility and family planning support

Galleri cancer screening

FSA options

HSA with company contribution

Work‑life stipends

Team off‑sites

Stock options and 401k

Job summary

WRITER, a leader in enterprise AI, seeks a Design Engineer to own the Writer Design System and drive end-to-end UI surfaces with TS/React. You will collaborate with design, PM, and engineering to shape the product's look and behavior, ensuring accessibility and consistency across features.

Hybrid role based in WRITER hubs; compensation ranges with experience. Join a team delivering AI-powered work experiences at scale.

Qualifications

• 4–8+ years building production frontends with TypeScript and React.
• Fluency in Figma at expert level — auto-layout, variants, variables, and code connect.
• Experience driving adoption of a design system or shared platform across an engineering org.
• Experience with AI product surfaces — tool-call UIs, streaming responses, agent state.

Responsibilities

• Own the Writer Design System (WDS) as your primary domain — agentify and maintain it, ensuring it's optimized for both humans and AI agents building with it
• Design and build production-quality UI components and features, owning surfaces from sketch to ship
• Ship design-led work that wouldn't survive an engineering backlog — polish passes, micro-interactions, and brand moments that make the product feel alive
• Architect new primitives and extend the system's core components, shaping its technical direction while keeping documentation, examples, and libraries in sync across Figma, .md skills, and Storybook
• Uphold the bar for front-end craft across accessibility, motion feel, consistency, and quality, ensuring accessibility is baked into every design system component
• Help shape the design-to-code workflow, researching the latest tools and practices to unlock org‑wide productivity and democratize workflows across the EPD organization
• Partner with designers, PMs, and engineering leads to measure WDS adoption, close gaps, and make sure shipped features meet design system standards

Skills

TypeScript

React

System ownership

Animation principles

Figma expert

Framer Motion

GSAP

Lottie

Tools

Figma

Framer Motion

GSAP

Lottie

Job description

WRITER, a leader in enterprise AI, seeks a Design Engineer to own the Writer Design System and drive end-to-end UI surfaces with TS/React. You will collaborate with design, PM, and engineering to shape the product's look and behavior, ensuring accessibility and consistency across features.

Hybrid role based in WRITER hubs; compensation ranges with experience. Join a team delivering AI-powered work experiences at scale.