4 days ago
Chicago, IL, USA +4 moreMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$129k - $234k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own, maintain, and optimize the Writer Design System for human developers and AI coding agents.
- Design and build production-quality UI components and features from concept through launch.
- Deliver polished design-led work, including micro-interactions, animation, and brand moments.
- Architect new primitives and extend core components while keeping Figma, Markdown skills, and Storybook documentation and examples synchronized.
- Ensure accessibility, motion quality, consistency, and frontend craft across design-system components.
- Research and improve design-to-code tools and workflows across the EPD organization.
- Partner with designers, product managers, and engineering leads to measure adoption, close gaps, and enforce design-system standards.
Requirements
- 4–8+ years of experience building production frontends with TypeScript and React.
- Experience owning a system, platform, or product surface end to end.
- Strong understanding of animation principles including easing, choreography, anticipation, follow-through, interruptibility, and perceived performance.
- Expert-level Figma proficiency, including auto-layout, variants, variables, and Code Connect.
- Proficiency with Framer Motion, GSAP, and Lottie for web-based animation.
- A portfolio, side projects, GitHub work, or production work demonstrating systems-level design engineering and frontend craft.
- Experience driving adoption of a design system or shared platform across an engineering organization.
- Experience with AI product surfaces such as tool-call UIs, streaming responses, agent state, and dynamic UI rendering.
- Commitment to WRITER’s values of Connect, Challenge, and Own.
Benefits
- Generous paid time off and company holidays.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
- Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave for all parents.
- Fertility and family planning support.
- Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri.
- Flexible spending and dependent care FSA options.
- Health savings account with company contribution for eligible plans.
- Annual wellness and learning and development stipends.
- Company-wide and team off-sites.
- Company stock options and 401(k).
- Hybrid work based out of hubs in San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, New York City, Seattle, or London.
- US full-time employee benefits apply; the role is open to hiring at multiple levels.
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About WRITER
WRITER builds an enterprise generative AI platform for creating, deploying, and supervising AI agents grounded in company data and powered by proprietary LLMs. It sells subscriptions and services to large organizations, with customers such as Accenture, Marriott, Uber, Mars, and Vanguard. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company raised a Series C in 2024.