Staff Product Design Engineer, Tapestry

X Development, LLC; 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, based in Mountain View, CA, is seeking a product design engineer to craft intuitive, enterprise-grade AI tooling for the energy sector. You will collaborate with product, software, research, and domain experts to define the future of user experience.

Lead design from strategy to production, prototype in React, and help evolve a scalable design system while championing user-centered practices and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience with a strong portfolio of shipped products.
• Strong execution across interaction and visual design with exceptional craft.
• Experience leading complex, ambiguous product areas and cross-functional alignment.

Responsibilities

• Set design direction for AI-driven product areas.
• Lead end-to-end design from strategy through execution.
• Prototype directly in React to validate interactions and speed deployment.
• Partner with product, engineering, and domain experts to shape direction.
• Champion user-centered design practices across teams.
• Build and evolve production design system for scalable components.

Skills

Product design leadership

Interaction design

Visual design

Production code collaboration

Design system

React prototyping

Systems thinking

Tools

Figma

React

Design system tooling

Job description

User Experience & Design Mountain View, CA (HQ), San Francisco CA

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:

A culture that supports growth, ownership, and meaningful impact, along with…

• 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.

An Equal Opportunity Workplace

At X, we don't just accept difference - we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

This position is located in Mountain View, CA.