Web Designer

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-office SF (Caltrain access)

Job summary

Factory is seeking a hands-on Web Designer to own the website from concept to production, shaping its visual language, layouts, and interactive experiences. You’ll implement motion, transitions, and product demos that illustrate autonomous software engineering ideas.

Collaborating with Design, Marketing, and Engineering, you’ll ship frequent updates, optimize for speed and accessibility, and ensure the site resonates across devices and browsers.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building production websites with a live portfolio.
• Strong typography, layout, composition, and interaction design, delivering a distinct identity.
• Proficiency in Figma; work between design, prototyping, and code.
• Strong HTML, CSS, JavaScript with React/Next.js experience.
• Experience implementing web animation with good timing and easing.
• Understanding of responsive design, accessibility, and web performance.
• Ability to take open-ended briefs to implementation with quick updates.
• Experience using AI tools to prototype and build, with refinement skills.

Responsibilities

• Own Factory's website end to end: concept, design, prototyping, frontend development, testing, launch, and ongoing iteration.
• Design and build product pages, campaign landing pages, launch experiences, and other site additions.
• Create and implement motion, animation, and interactions including page transitions and interactive demos.
• Evolve the site's visual language and reusable components for rapid page shipping.
• Partner with Marketing and Product to translate technical capabilities into clear stories.
• Ship frequent content updates and design improvements with care for existing site.
• Ensure experiences are responsive, accessible, and fast across sizes and browsers.
• Leverage analytics and user feedback to improve navigation, engagement, and conversion.

Skills

Typography

Layout

Interaction design

Figma

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

React/Next.js

Web animation

Accessibility

Responsive design

AI prototyping

Motion tools

Tools

GSAP

Motion

Rive

Job description

About the Role

Factory is looking for a web designer who loves to build. You'll own the design and development of Factory's website, from the first concept to production code and the updates that follow. That includes its visual direction, page layouts, interactions, motion, and animation. You'll shape how people first encounter Factory and help them understand what autonomous software engineering makes possible.

This is a hands-on role for someone who cares how a website feels in the browser. The rhythm of a page. The timing of a transition. An interactive demo that makes a complex idea click. You'll have room to explore those details and the responsibility to ship them.

Working closely with Design, Marketing, and Engineering, you'll keep the site moving as quickly as the product, with frequent launches, experiments, and improvements.

What you will do and achieve

• Own Factory's website end to end: concept, design, prototyping, frontend development, testing, launch, and ongoing iteration.

• Design and build product pages, campaign landing pages, launch experiences, and other additions to the site.

• Create and implement motion, animation, and interactions, including page transitions, scroll-driven storytelling, hover states, and interactive product demonstrations.

• Evolve the site's visual language and reusable components so new pages ship quickly without losing their character or craft.

• Partner with Marketing and Product to turn technical capabilities into clear stories that people can explore and understand.

• Ship frequent content updates and design improvements. Take care of the existing site with the same attention you bring to a new launch.

• Make every experience responsive, accessible, and fast. Own the details across screen sizes and browsers, including reduced-motion behavior.

• Use analytics, user feedback, and experimentation to improve navigation, engagement, and conversion.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building production websites, with a portfolio of live work that demonstrates strong visual craft and hands‑on implementation.

• Excellent typography, layout, composition, and interaction design skills. You can give a site a distinct identity and carry it through to the smallest details.

• Proficiency in Figma and a comfortable workflow between design, prototyping, and code.

• Strong HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills, with experience shipping in a modern frontend framework such as React or Next.js.

• Experience implementing web animation and motion. You have a feel for timing and easing, and know when restraint makes an experience better.

• An understanding of responsive design, accessibility, browser behavior, and web performance.

• The ability to take an open-ended brief, propose a direction, and carry it through implementation. You're comfortable balancing ambitious work with quick, frequent updates.

• Experience using AI tools to prototype and build, with the judgment to review and refine what they produce.

• Bonus: experience with creative coding, WebGL, 3D, or animation tools such as GSAP, Motion, or Rive.

• Please include links to websites you've shipped and a short note on what you personally designed and built. We'd love to see motion and interaction work in the browser.

This is an in-office position (5 days/week) in San Francisco (walking distance to Caltrain)