Responsibilities
- Design and build Jinba's design system: components, tokens, patterns, and documentation
- Own UI/UX for core product surfaces, from concept through implementation
- Create motion design that guides users through workflow creation and execution
- Write clean, maintainable frontend code (we use shadcn/ui and modern React patterns)
- Collaborate directly with engineering to ship features, not just hand off specs
- Establish design processes and standards as the first dedicated design hire
Requirements
- Strong product design sense with portfolio showing end-to-end ownership
- Experience building or significantly contributing to a design system
- Motion design ability: you understand timing, easing, and how animation communicates state
- Proficient in React/TypeScript; you ship your own designs
- Familiar with component libraries like shadcn/ui, Radix, or similar
- Understanding of design tokens, CSS architecture, and scalable frontend patterns
- Experience with developer tools, no-code platforms, or workflow/automation products
- Comfort designing complex interfaces: canvas editors, drag-and-drop builders, multi-step flows
- Ability to simplify dense functionality without dumbing it down
Nice to Have
- Design engineer or founding designer roles at early-stage startups
- Experience at companies like Figma, Linear, Notion, Retool, Vercel, or similar dev/productivity tools
- Built a design system from scratch at a growing company
- Background combining design and engineering
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide) — San Francisco, Tokyo
