Senior Product Design Engineer

About the role

Virtuous is on a mission to inspire global generosity by helping nonprofits build better relationships with their donors. We offer a modern software platform that provides mid-sized charities with elegant tools for fundraising, marketing, volunteerism, and online giving. Our talented team is driven to disrupt the status quo in the nonprofit sector. We are hungry, humble, and committed to delivering best-in-class software solutions, customer success interactions, and sales experiences to the world’s leading nonprofits. We also recognize the importance of giving back and making a difference in the communities where we live and work. That's why we practice radical generosity by volunteering at nonprofits or going the extra mile for our team and the customers we serve. We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We believe that life is too short not to love what you do.

Responsibilities

• Own the design system end-to-end: tokens, primitives, components, patterns, and documentation, in code and not just in Figma.
• Decide how a team ships a pattern the system doesn't have yet without fragmenting everything, and how that pattern gets promoted into the core once it proves out.
• Treat engineers as your users. The system wins when building on it is faster than building around it, so you instrument coverage, watch for drift, and drive system adoption.
• Build production interface work on the surfaces you cover every week.
• Make the system the thing that keeps generated interfaces on brand. When an engineer or an agent builds a screen, the system should make the right thing the easy thing.
• Build accessibility into the system so what we ship is also accessible.
• Work with product designers to turn validated patterns into system defaults, and close the gap between what was designed and what actually shipped.
• Influence the numbers that prove the system works: component coverage across surfaces, adoption, efficiency, and throughput.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building production interfaces in a modern frontend stack, with real ownership of what shipped.
• Direct experience owning a design system used by multiple teams across multiple products, in production. Not a just a component library or a Figma file.
• A real point of view on distribution and consumption: published package, registry, source distribution, or something else. You have lived with the tradeoffs and you can defend a recommendation, including how engineers and agents each consume it.
• Genuine design sensibility. You don’t have to be a designer, but you can tell good from not good enough, and you can hold the line on it.
• Strong engineering fundamentals: Vue, React, component architecture, CSS at scale, performance, and testing.
• Hands on with AI tooling as part of your build workflow, including prototyping.
• Accessibility fluency, and the instinct to solve it structurally rather than case by case.
• Comfort working with designers as partners, and the credibility to push back.
• Excellent written communication. Your documentation is part of the product.

Skills

• AI forward operator.
• Systems thinker with a product mindset.
• Influence over authority.
• Pragmatic about process.
• Taste and rigor together.
• Human centered.

Benefits

• Market competitive pay leveraging Carta data.
• Employee recognition through Bonusly (birthdays, anniversaries, achievements, etc.).
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching- 50% match up to 6% of compensation after 90 days.
• Supportive time off including paid volunteer days and company holidays.
• Employer-contributed healthcare benefits, encompassing medical, dental, and vision coverage, with plans available for dependents and choices for Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).
• 12 weeks primary parent leave, 4 weeks secondary parent leave - full pay (adoption as well).

Pay

• Market competitive pay leveraging Carta data.

Schedule

• Full-time.