Job Description
Glean is looking for an experienced Design Engineer on our design systems team to work across design and engineering teams to help define the future of work. Youโll work across Figma and React to maintain our design system and our frontend component library, and enable others to contribute high-quality components to our design system as well.
As a Design Engineer, youโll be joining an experienced, tight-knit, and collaborative group of folks who love combining research, data, intuition, and best practices into a user-centered design process. Youโll have an outsized impact on the product, used across hundreds of companies across many different industries, and an incredible opportunity to shape the system of intelligence for every company in the world.
What you will do and achieve
- Design and maintain the components, documentation, and usage guidelines for Gleanโs design system and component library in Figma and Storybook
- Collaborate with product designers and software engineers to develop the building blocks needed to create high-quality, accessible user experiences
- Evolve our design system and establish best practices as a means to scale and uplevel the quality, consistency, and craft of our product
- Drive cross-functional team enablement initiatives that champion accessibility and high-quality Storybook components
- Prototype small interactions and ideas on certain projects as needs arise
Who you are
- 5+ years experience working on design systems as a design technologist, UI engineer, or design systems product designer
- Ability to design polished pixel-perfect UI components in Figma, implement the same in code, and create thorough documentation.
- Expertise in React, Figma, Storybook, CSS, HTML, Javascript, Typescript, and WCAG compliance
- Strong systems thinking skills to create scalable and reusable design solutions across the whole Glean ecosystem
- Strong written, verbal, and storytelling skills to educate others about the design system, demonstrate its value, and train designers and developers to use it effectively.
- The ability to break down problems, work within constraints, make quick decisions based on sound rationale and feedback, and iterate rapidly.
- Experience collaborating with different disciplines and incorporating feedback into your work.
- Thrive in ambiguity and can independently prioritize work based on user needs and business goals, and take responsibility to drive product ideas forward
- Ability to think systematically about problems given tradeoffs and constraints, and go deep on details through continual rapid iteration.
- A learning and growth mindset with an ability to self-start on problems, a willingness to own problems, and a desire to make things better.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Medical, Vision and Dental coverage
- Flexible work environment and time-off policy
- 401k
- Company events
- A home office improvement stipend when you first join
- Annual education stipend
- Wellness stipend
- Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily
For California based applicants:
The standard base salary range for this position is $162,000 - $250,000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.
We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.
