Design Engineer

Job description

# **About the Role** As a Senior Design Engineer at Ravenna, you will work at the intersection of interaction design, systems thinking, and front-end engineering. You will move between designing flows, prototyping with real data, implementing components, and improving internal tools, tokens, and documentation. Your work will shape how users experience AI-powered internal support. You will be a design partner, a systems thinker, a high-impact engineer, and a steady advocate for product quality. We value principled UX, strong AI capabilities, and simplicity. If that resonates, you will be at home here. # **What You’ll Do** ### **Design and Build Better User Experiences** - Lead the creation and evolution of Ravenna’s cross-platform design system across design tools and front-end code - Design and prototype product flows that simplify complex tasks and make AI automation intuitive - Build polished, accessible, responsive UI with strong interaction and motion ### **Shape the Design System and Front-End Architecture** - Maintain reusable components, design tokens, and documentation for fast, consistent shipping - Partner with engineers to define clean, predictable component APIs that scale ### **Create and Validate Product Ideas** - Use Figma, browser prototypes, and AI tools to explore ideas and test assumptions - Turn early concepts into structured flows, prototypes, and production-ready interfaces ### **Collaborate Across the Company** - Work with product, AI, and engineering teams to clarify problems and unify experiences - Provide design critique, technical feedback, and mentorship - Contribute to long-term product vision and UX strategy ### **Raise the Quality Bar** - Champion accessibility, usability, and clarity - Identify and fix UX issues without waiting for permission - Build tools and workflows that shorten the path from idea to shipped product ## **What You Bring** - 5+ years in product design, UI engineering, or design engineering - Strong fluency with Figma and modern UX/UI principles - Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system - Strong visual design and a sharp eye for layout and motion - Appreciation for documentation, critique, and collaboration - Clear communication and cross-functional partnership High ownership, curiosity, and a desire to move quickly without losing quality # Benefits ### Competitive Salary - We believe great people should be compensated well. While we are an early stage company, we offer competitive salaries and aim to pay top of market for exceptional talent. - We are building an ambitious company and know that attracting great people requires strong compensation. ### Meaningful Equity - We hire people who want to help build Ravenna from the ground up. Equity ensures that when the company succeeds, the people who helped build it share in that success. - Early team members have the opportunity to make a real impact on both the product and the future of the company. ### Choose Your Setup - Great work requires great tools. At Ravenna you can choose the hardware and setup that helps you do your best work. - Most of the team uses high performance Mac laptops, but you have the flexibility to select the tools and environment that fit your workflow. ### Flexible Time Off - Doing great work requires time to recharge. We offer flexible paid time off so you can take the time you need to rest and stay at your best. - We trust our team to manage their time responsibly while delivering meaningful results.