Lead Design Engineer, AI Tools & UI Systems

Yahoo Holdings Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401k

Backup childcare

Education stipends

Job summary

Yahoo Holdings Inc. is seeking an experienced engineer-designer to build the tool’s core interactions and visual language. You will craft selection systems, direct manipulation, panel layouts, keyboard navigation, and AI generation states with React and TypeScript, collaborating with product teams daily.

You bring a strong visual eye for typography, layout, motion, and interaction per from craft. A portfolio of live, interactive web apps demonstrates your ability to ship polished UI at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience shipping interactive tools.
• Strong hands-on experience building interactive UI components with React and TypeScript.
• Solid command of typography, layout, color, spacing and visual hierarchy.
• Deep understanding of motion, micro-interactions and visual feedback.
• Experience moving from problem framing to exploration, prototype and polished UI.
• Experience contributing to design systems and building coherent interfaces.
• Portfolio showcasing live interactive web applications or design tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the tool's core interactions, including selection systems and UI states.
• Shape visual language: layout, typography, motion, and component states.
• Own interactive and motion authoring within the platform.
• Ship production-quality code using React and TypeScript with CI workflows.
• Collaborate with product teams to turn user feedback into shipped features.
• Raise quality across engineering with reviews, prototypes, and UI standards.
• Bridge design and engineering, surfacing problems and proposing solutions.

Skills

React

TypeScript

UI development

Motion design

Design systems

Portfolio

Job description

Yahoo Holdings Inc. is seeking an experienced engineer-designer to build the tool’s core interactions and visual language. You will craft selection systems, direct manipulation, panel layouts, keyboard navigation, and AI generation states with React and TypeScript, collaborating with product teams daily.

You bring a strong visual eye for typography, layout, motion, and interaction per from craft. A portfolio of live, interactive web apps demonstrates your ability to ship polished UI at scale.