Requirements
- End-to-end product delivery as a builder. You have owned a product surface end to end — making product decisions, designing the experience, and personally writing front-end code deployed to production users.
- Production front-end engineering. Proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and React (or an equivalent framework), strong CSS, and the ability to move fluently between design files and application code.
- Design discipline. Demonstrated competence in information architecture, interaction design, and accessibility (WCAG), with the judgment to evaluate experience quality, not only functional completeness.
- Direction of AI coding agents. Practical experience using coding agents on production work, including a working understanding of their failure modes and the controls required to use them as leverage without compromising quality or review.
- A track record of defining how teams work. You have established a process, pattern, or standard that other practitioners adopted.
- High autonomy under ambiguity. You produce structure and direction where none is provided.
Nice to Have
- High-assurance or regulated delivery experience. Shipping within FedRAMP, FedRAMP High, defense, financial services, healthcare, or another NIST 800-53 / SOC 2 / HIPAA-bound environment, treating those constraints as design inputs.
- Public-sector or govtech product experience, including an understanding of constituent- and caseworker-facing use cases.
- Design-systems ownership. Experience building or maintaining a component library used across multiple teams.
- Experience operating within an eval-driven or test-first engineering culture at a leading software organization.
What Your Impact Will Look Like
- Own the product outcome of the team end to end — from problem definition through accepted, in-production software. You hold the roadmap commitment and the quality bar.
- Direct the agent array across three execution modes — Interactive (real-time pairing with an agent), Supervised (agents propose changes; you review and gate each pull request), and Fully Autonomous (agents execute a scoped workstream end to end; you review the output). You determine the appropriate mode for each workstream based on risk and measured agent reliability.
- Implement production front-end code from the same repository as the engineering team, under engineering review. You deliver the user experience directly rather than specifying it for others to build.
- Apply product and design rigor at every stage — discovery, user research, information architecture, interaction design, and prioritization — and ensure that increased build velocity does not compromise upstream rigor.
- Author the prompts, evaluation criteria, and acceptance criteria that convert product intent into work an agent can execute and a verifier can validate.
- Enforce the human review gate and accessibility standards in partnership with the lead engineer, ensuring no agent-generated code reaches production without senior human review and that WCAG conformance and compliance requirements are designed in from the outset.
- Set and maintain the team’s delivery cadence and contribute improvements to the shared operating model that other delivery teams adopt.
OWNERSHIP FROM DAY ONE
- Product outcome and roadmap commitment for one delivery team
- Deliberate use of the three execution modes per workstream
- Direct authorship of the team’s production front-end code
- Acceptance criteria and evaluation suites for all team deliverables
SCOPE YOU WILL GROW INTO
- Refinement of the cross-team product-and-design operating model
- Higher autonomy ratios supported by measured agent reliability
- A design system and component library that agents build against by default
- Mentorship of additional product-and-design engineering leads as the model scales
You Will Love This Job If You Have
- Required End-to-end product delivery as a builder. You have owned a product surface end to end — making product decisions, designing the experience, and personally writing front-end code deployed to production users.
- Production front-end engineering. Proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and React (or an equivalent framework), strong CSS, and the ability to move fluently between design files and application code.
- Design discipline. Demonstrated competence in information architecture, interaction design, and accessibility (WCAG), with the judgment to evaluate experience quality, not only functional completeness.
- Direction of AI coding agents. Practical experience using coding agents on production work, including a working understanding of their failure modes and the controls required to use them as leverage without compromising quality or review.
- A track record of defining how teams work. You have established a process, pattern, or standard that other practitioners adopted.
- High autonomy under ambiguity. You produce structure and direction where none is provided.
Preferred
- High-assurance or regulated delivery experience. Shipping within FedRAMP, FedRAMP High, defense, financial services, healthcare, or another NIST 800-53 / SOC 2 / HIPAA-bound environment, treating those constraints as design inputs.
- Public-sector or govtech product experience, including an understanding of constituent- and caseworker-facing use cases.
- Design-systems ownership. Experience building or maintaining a component library used across multiple teams.
- Experience operating within an eval-driven or test-first engineering culture at a leading software organization.
Indicators of a strong fit
- You are effective owning quality for software an agent implemented, and you treat that accountability as central to the role.
- You can both define the product and implement its interface, and you prefer to do both rather than specialize in one.
- You hold product positions firmly and revise them quickly in response to evidence.
- You regard regulatory constraints as design parameters to engineer within, not obstacles to delivery.
- You want to shape the operating model rather than inherit a fixed process.
