Design Technologist

Shared Context Lab

$90K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong product taste and aptitude for prototyping.
  • Ability to produce pixel-perfect designs while also shipping concepts to production.
  • An acute focus on interaction, user experience, and design detail.
  • Excellent communication skills for seamless collaboration between design and engineering teams.
  • Curious mindset with a focus on personal growth and openness to new ideas.
  • Experience building projects in a startup environment or independently.

Responsibilities

  • Transform rough concepts into functional prototypes and demos.
  • Investigate and validate new interaction designs with code.
  • Collaborate directly with founders to influence product development through hands-on making.
  • Ensure quality and swift execution by connecting design and engineering efforts.
  • Develop reusable design patterns and establish cohesive design systems.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work closely with founders in an innovative environment.
  • Collaborative culture that values creativity and experimentation.
  • Focus on human-centered design and raising the craft in UX.
  • Chance to shape product direction from the ground up.
Full Job Description
Design Technologist

We're looking for a Design Technologist to join us on this creative and industry-defining journey. You'll work directly with the founders to shape product direction through making, prototyping, and shipping.

You'd be a great fit if you are a hybrid designer-builder with strong product instinct, sharp taste, and a bias toward action. You're someone who can turn rough notions into fast, testable prototypes, build polished demos, and use code to explore new interactions and experiences. You should be excited by ambiguity and know how to learn quickly by making.

We care deeply about design, UX, and human-centered thinking. We're looking for someone who does too, and who wants to help raise the bar on craft, interaction, and feel.

What you'll do
  • Turn rough ideas into prototypes, demos, and lightweight product experiences
  • Explore and test new interactions through design and code
  • Work with the founders to shape product direction through making, not just specs
  • Bridge design and engineering so ideas are carried through with quality and speed
  • Create reusable patterns and cohesive design direction and systems

What we're looking for
  • Strong product taste and prototyping ability
  • Comfortable shipping concepts straight to production and also able to create pixel perfect designs
  • Keen and unrelenting eye for interaction, detail, and user experience
  • Clear communicator who can work fluidly across design and engineering
  • Curious, growth-oriented, and have strong opinions held loosely
  • Ideally, you've built things before, at a startup, on your own, or both

If you want to help shape a product from the beginning and use design and code to turn ideas into momentum, we'd love to hear from you.

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