Staff Product Design Engineer Mountain View, CA (HQ), San Francisco CA

Tapestry; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 215,000 - 277,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Generous PTO and flexible hybrid work

401(k) with employer contribution

Alphabet-backed environment

Job summary

Tapestry, a Google-affiliated team building AI-powered grid solutions, seeks a product design engineer to craft enterprise-grade experiences for the energy industry. You’ll work with product, software, research, and ML experts to push the field forward.

Lead design end-to-end—from strategy through execution—include rapid React prototyping, strong interaction design, and contribution to a scalable production design system.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience with shipped products and demonstrated impact at scale.
• Strong execution across interaction and visual design with attention to detail.
• Experience leading complex product areas and influencing direction across teams.
• Experience in both enterprise and startup environments, moving quickly.
• Experience contributing to production code and partnering with engineers.
• Experience building, maintaining, and evolving a production design system.
• Comfort with technical abstraction and systems thinking.

Responsibilities

• Set design direction for complex product areas, turning user and business needs into simple solutions for AI-driven products.
• Lead end-to-end design from strategy through execution with high quality interactions and visuals.
• Prototype directly in React to validate ideas and accelerate design-to-production.
• Partner with product, engineering, and domain experts to shape direction and alignment.
• Champion user-centered design practices across teams to raise design quality.
• Build and evolve our production design system with scalable components and patterns.

Skills

Product design

Enterprise UX

System thinking

Production code

Design system

Tools

React

Job description

About Tapestry

Tapestry is a group within Google working to build the AI-powered electric grid. We are tackling one of the world’s most important infrastructure challenges: helping the energy system become more visible, understandable, reliable, affordable, abundant, and clean.

Originally born at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, Tapestry brings together experts in energy, AI, software engineering, and products to build tools that help the electricity ecosystem plan smarter, move faster, and operate more efficiently.

This is a global effort. Tapestry supports partners across the U.S., U.K., Chile, New Zealand, Australia, and Brazil as they work toward a cleaner, more resilient energy future.

Joining Tapestry means doing high-impact work with a multidisciplinary team tackling a problem that matters at global scale. Learn more about our team and our mission here .

About the role:

As a product design engineer, you will work closely with a talented cross-functional team to design and build an exciting suite of innovative products that push the boundaries of user experience for the energy industry. You will collaborate with product, software engineers, research, industry and ML experts to help define the future for intuitive, enterprise-grade, and state-of-the-art AI toolings that empower stakeholders and radically transform the energy space.

How you will make 10X Impact

• Set design direction for complex, ambiguous product areas, turning user and business needs into simple, innovative solutions for AI-driven products..
• Lead end-to-end design from strategy through execution, with a high bar for interaction design, visual craft, and shipped quality.
• Prototype directly in React to explore ideas, validate interactions, and accelerate the path from design to production.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and domain experts to shape product direction, challenge assumptions, and drive cross-functional alignment.
• Champion user-centered design practices and raise the quality of design across teams.
• Build and evolve our production design system, creating scalable components and patterns that improve quality and accelerate development.

What you should have…

• 8+ years of product design experience with a strong portfolio of shipped products and demonstrated impact at scale.
• Strong design execution across interaction and visual design, with exceptional attention to detail and craft.
• Experience leading complex, ambiguous product areas and influencing direction across functions and teams.
• Experience across both enterprise and startup environments, combining systems thinking with the ability to move quickly.
• Experience contributing to production code and partnering closely with engineers through implementation.
• Experience building, maintaining, and evolving a production design system.
• Comfort with technical abstraction, systems thinking, and complex conceptual models.

It’d be great if you also had one or more of these:

• Experience designing simulation, modeling, or developer tools for expert or highly technical users.
• Experience with data-intensive, geospatial, or visualization products.
• Experience designing AI-powered products or features, beyond just chat interfaces.

Tapestry Values

• Take charge: We take initiative and own outcomes that move the mission forward.
• Transform with purpose: We build solutions that solve real problems and create meaningful impact.
• Be a Tapestry, not a thread: We collaborate across diverse skills and perspectives to achieve more than we can individually.
• Always fine-tune: We stay curious, seek feedback, and refine our understanding as we learn.
• Stay grounded: We listen openly, value different perspectives, and stay focused on what matters most.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous PTO and flexible hybrid work model
• 401(k) with employer contribution
• The ability to work on important real-world problems within an Alphabet-backed environment

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $215,000 - $277,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

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