Founding Design Engineer

All open roles Engineering Founding Design Engineer San Francisco Full-time On-site About The Role Design engineer who owns the full visual and interactive experience of Jinba's platform. You'll build our design system from the ground up, create motion that makes complex workflows feel intuitive, and ship production code alongside the engineering team. This is a founding design role for someone who wants to shape how enterprise users interact with AI-native software. Responsibilities Design and build Jinba's design system: components, tokens, patterns, and documentationOwn UI/UX for core product surfaces, from concept through implementationCreate motion design that guides users through workflow creation and executionWrite clean, maintainable frontend code (we use shadcn/ui and modern React patterns)Collaborate directly with engineering to ship features, not just hand off specsEstablish design processes and standards as the first dedicated design hire Requirements Design Skills Strong product design sense with portfolio showing end-to-end ownershipExperience building or significantly contributing to a design systemMotion design ability: you understand timing, easing, and how animation communicates state Technical Ability Proficient in React/TypeScript; you ship your own designsFamiliar with component libraries like shadcn/ui, Radix, or similarUnderstanding of design tokens, CSS architecture, and scalable frontend patterns Product Context Experience with developer tools, no-code platforms, or workflow/automation productsComfort designing complex interfaces: canvas editors, drag-and-drop builders, multi-step flowsAbility to simplify dense functionality without dumbing it down Strong Signals Design engineer or founding designer roles at early-stage startupsExperience at companies like Figma, Linear, Notion, Retool, Vercel, or similar dev/productivity toolsBuilt a design system from scratch at a growing companyBackground combining design and engineering Mindset Generalist: you'd rather own the whole surface than perfect one component foreverOpinionated but collaborative: you have strong taste and can articulate whyEarly-stage ready: you're excited by ambiguity and building foundations others will use About Jinba We help large enterprises build automated workflows using plain English. Unlike traditional no-code tools that bolt a chat agent onto their interface, Jinba is built as a native vibe coding platform from the ground up. YC W26. International team across SF and Tokyo. Growing fast with major enterprise contracts. Location San Francisco Team Engineering Employment Full-time Work style On-site Compensation $140K – $250K, Offers Equity Apply You are applying for Founding Design Engineer Website Full name * Email * Resume / CV * PDF, DOC or DOCX, up to 10 MB LinkedIn Portfolio or GitHub Anything you'd like us to know By submitting, you agree to our Privacy Policy. We use what you send to consider your application. Something went wrong. Please try again in a moment. Application received Thanks for applying. We read every application and will be in touch by email.