11 hours ago
London, United KingdomMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Own, maintain, and improve the Writer Design System for both human developers and AI coding agents.
- Design and build production-quality UI components and features from concept through delivery.
- Deliver design-led polish, micro-interactions, animation, and brand moments across product surfaces.
- Architect new design-system primitives and keep Figma, documentation, examples, and Storybook libraries aligned.
- 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 uphold 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 skills, including auto-layout, variants, variables, and Code Connect.
- Proficiency with Framer Motion, GSAP, and Lottie for web-based animation.
- Portfolio, side projects, GitHub, or production work demonstrating systems-level design-engineering work.
- Experience driving adoption of a design system or shared platform across an engineering organization.
- Experience with AI product surfaces including tool-call UIs, streaming responses, agent state, and dynamic UI rendering.
- Ability to navigate ambiguous cross-functional problems and demonstrate alignment with WRITER’s Connect, Challenge, and Own values.
Benefits
- Hybrid work from WRITER hubs in San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, New York City, Seattle, or London.
- Generous paid time off and company holidays.
- Comprehensive medical and dental insurance for UK full-time employees.
- Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave for all parents.
- Fertility and family-planning support.
- Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri.
- Competitive pension scheme with company contribution.
- Wellness and learning-and-development stipends.
- Company-wide and team off-sites.
- Company stock options.
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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.