Design Technologist

Shared Context Lab

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

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in a design or hybrid role
  • Strong ability in prototyping and product design
  • Excellent communication skills for cross-disciplinary collaboration
  • Detail-oriented focus on user experience and interaction design
  • Experience with shipping product concepts directly to production
  • Familiarity with working in startup environments or personal projects

Responsibilities

  • Transform initial concepts into rapid prototypes and functional demos
  • Experiment with and evaluate new interactions using design and code
  • Collaborate closely with founders to influence product direction through hands-on making
  • Connect design with engineering to ensure rapid and high-quality execution
  • Develop reusable design patterns and maintain a cohesive design system

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work closely with founding team
  • Hands-on involvement in product development from the ground up
  • Focus on creativity and innovation in a flexible environment
  • Encouragement of both personal growth and skill development
  • Chance to shape the design direction and experience of products
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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