Design Engineer
Profound is the marketing platform for the AI era. As people increasingly turn to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini to decide what to buy, we give brands the intelligence to see how AI represents them and the Agents to act on it. Today, ~13% of the Fortune 500, plus companies like Ramp, Figma, Chime, Calendly, and DocuSign, use Profound to turn AI Search from a black box into a measurable growth channel.
Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and Khosla Ventures at a $1B valuation, we're a lean, fast-moving team across NYC, SF, Buenos Aires, and London, shipping at a relentless pace and defining a new category at the biggest shift in marketing in 25 years. If you want to do the best work of your career at the frontier of AI, come build it with us.
Design engineering is core to how we build at Profound. Our founder, Dylan Babbs, started his career as a design engineer, and we hold a high bar for craft, taste, and execution. As a Design Engineer, you will work between design and engineering by shipping high-quality, highly polished experiences across our product and, at times, our marketing surfaces.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Build and ship polished, production-quality UI across our core product or marketing site
- Partner with product designers, product managers, and engineers to translate intent into precise, high-fidelity implementations
- Craft UI details including layouts, typography, responsiveness, motion, and micro-interactions using Tailwind CSS
- Contribute occasionally to the marketing site and logged-out experiences while maintaining the same bar for quality and performance
- Contribute to shared UI foundations including components, patterns, and design tokens
- Work across the stack using React, Next.js, and TypeScript to deliver fast, reliable interfaces
- Optimize for performance, accessibility, and maintainability without compromising on design
- Raise the bar for frontend craft through code reviews, critiques, and shared standar...