5 days ago
London, United KingdomMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain the Writer Design System for both human developers and AI coding agents.
- Design and build production-quality UI components and product features from sketch through shipment.
- Deliver design-led polish, micro-interactions, animation, and brand moments across the product.
- Architect design-system primitives and keep Figma, Markdown skills, Storybook, documentation, examples, and libraries synchronized.
- Set standards for accessibility, motion, consistency, and frontend craft.
- Research and improve design-to-code workflows and productivity across the EPD organization.
- Partner with designers, product managers, and engineering leads to measure adoption, close gaps, and ensure product work meets design-system standards.
Requirements
- 4–8+ years 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 animation.
- A portfolio, side projects, GitHub profile, 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.
- Ability to navigate ambiguous cross-team problems and exercise sound judgment about when to involve others.
- Commitment to WRITER’s Connect, Challenge, and Own values.
Benefits
- Hybrid work based out of the San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, New York City, Seattle, or London hubs.
- Generous paid time off and company holidays.
- Comprehensive medical and dental insurance for UK full-time employees.
- Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for all parents.
- Fertility and family planning support.
- Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri.
- Competitive pension scheme with company contribution.
- Annual 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.