Staff Design Engineer — Lead Core ERP UX & Systems

campfire; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium health coverage

Dental care

Dependent coverage

Job summary

Campfire is seeking a Staff Design Engineer to shape the core ERP experience. This senior IC will own high-impact, cross-cutting design problems, set direction, and partner with engineering and product leadership to ship work that changes how finance teams operate.

You will mentor designers, strengthen the design system, and collaborate with finance customers to ground decisions in real workflows. This role is in-office in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Own end-to-end design for complex, ambiguous problem spaces across product areas.
• Partnership with product and engineering leads to shape roadmaps and strategy.
• Design for dense, data-heavy workflows (tables, ledgers, reconciliation, reporting).
• Strengthen and evolve Campfire's design system and interaction patterns.
• Mentor other designers and raise the craft bar across the team.
• Talk directly to customers—finance and accounting teams—to ground decisions.
• Drive design reviews and help the team make faster, better-informed decisions.
• 8+ years of product design experience with ownership of high-impact areas.
• Experience in fintech/ERP or similar is a strong plus.
• Able to prototype with HTML/CSS and some JavaScript.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design for complex, ambiguous problems across product areas.
• Partner with product and engineering to shape roadmap and strategy.
• Design for dense, data-heavy workflows and ensure clarity and speed.
• Evolve the design system and interaction patterns for coherence as the product grows.
• Mentor designers and raise the craft across the team.
• Engage with customers to ground design decisions in real workflows.
• Lead design reviews to enable faster, better-informed decisions.

Skills

End-to-end design

Systems thinking

Data-dense workflows

Portfolio range

Communication skills

Ambiguity handling

Startup experience

Prototype coding (HTML/CSS/JS)

Tools

HTML/CSS

JavaScript

Job description

Campfire is seeking a Staff Design Engineer to shape the core ERP experience. This senior IC will own high-impact, cross-cutting design problems, set direction, and partner with engineering and product leadership to ship work that changes how finance teams operate.

You will mentor designers, strengthen the design system, and collaborate with finance customers to ground decisions in real workflows. This role is in-office in San Francisco.