Founding Design Engineer
mid$180K – $220K
via Ashby
About this role
ABOUT THE ROLE
This is a founding-level frontend role at a seed-stage B2B SaaS startup building an AI-native pricing intelligence platform. You'll own the entire frontend design system — tokens, component library, and interface patterns — ensuring everything shipped, whether by humans or AI coding agents, feels like one cohesive product. As the sole bar-raiser for frontend UX, your work directly shapes how enterprise customers experience pricing strategy and deal intelligence.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Define and maintain the design token system, shadcn/ui-based component library, and Tailwind conventions across the full product suite.
- Enforce consistent frontend patterns using React Query, React Hook Form, and Zod so that agent-generated PRs land coherently by default.…
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