Staff Design Engineer

About the role

At Mixpanel, we believe design excellence is a competitive moat. In a world where AI makes it easier than ever to ship, we believe the quality of the experience — how it feels, how it builds trust, how it handles complexity with grace — that separates good products from great ones.

What you'll do

• Build the infrastructure for an AI-native design practice

• Translate Mixpanel's design standards, principles, and taste into systems that live in the code. Build a token system, component library, documentation, and guidelines that AI agents, AI coding tools, and AI prototyping workflows can reliably build on. Evolve our design system to be foundational infrastructure for AI-assisted workflows.

• Shape how Mixpanel looks and behaves in an AI-native world

• Sit within the product design team and collaborate on reimagining Mixpanel for a world where interfaces are conversational, agentic, and adaptive. You have the rare combination of deep design sensibility and production engineering skills, and you’ll use both to help bring our AI product vision to life with craft and coherence that generic AI outputs can't match.

• Own the bridge between design and code

• Build systems that connect design to code and keep the two in sync. Define what "shippable" looks like as AI writes more of the code. Work directly in the codebase. Ship PRs that improve the product.

• Set and model the craft bar

• Establish what great looks like — not through documentation alone, but through the quality of what you ship. Enable designers to work more code-adjacent and engineers to build with better components. Stay ahead of how AI is changing EPD workflows and bring that change into the org responsibly.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in modern front-end frameworks: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Next.js

• Experience with design systems. Ideally you've built or overhauled one at scale

• Strong design sensibility: you care about craft, consistency, interaction quality, and taste

• Fluency in AI-assisted workflows: canvas-to-code, code-to-canvas, AI prototyping tools, MCP integrations, and what's emerging in this space

• Experience working with tools like Figma, Storybook, VSCode, Chromatic, and GitHub

• A track record of working across design and engineering: you've done both, and you know how to collaborate across both

• Comfortable operating with high autonomy: you set direction, influence standards, and manage complex projects without a lot of hand-holding

• 8+ years in design engineering, UX engineering, design technology, or a related hybrid role

Bonus points

• Experience designing or building data visualizations

• Background in brand and/or product design

• Experience with accessibility: WCAG 2.2, ARIA patterns, semantic HTML, APCA, accessible data viz

• Experience working in a product analytics or developer-focused product environment

Compensation

The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level. In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. You can view our benefits offerings here.

Mixpanel Compensation Range: $236,000 - $300,000 USD

Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care

• Mental Wellness Benefit

• Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays

• Enhanced Parental Leave

• Volunteer Time Off

• Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break

Culture Values

• Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.

• Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes.

• One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.

• Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.

• Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star.

• Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible.

Why choose Mixpanel?

We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.

Application

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