Design Engineer at Vercel

This is an elite role for a hybrid creative-developer who lives at the intersection of high-end frontend engineering and visual design. While listed as mid-leve

Work type: remote

Location: Remote - United States

Salary: $196,000 – $294,000/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

This is an elite role for a hybrid creative-developer who lives at the intersection of high-end frontend engineering and visual design. While listed as mid-level, the expectations lean toward "Senior" or "Staff," requiring at least 5 years of experience. You should be a master of the Vercel ecosystem, capable of building high-performance, polished marketing surfaces and "logged-out" web experiences that serve as the company's front door. The compensation is top-tier (up to $294k base in high-cost areas) and includes equity in a high-growth industry leader. You will have immense creative license to lead design-driven projects, with the flexibility of a remote-first culture (unless you live near an office hub). It’s a chance to set the standard for the "AI-native web" using the very tools the company builds. **You might be a good fit if you:** * Can bridge the gap between Figma designs and production-ready Next.js code with "pixel-perfect" precision. * Have a portfolio that demonstrates a sophisticated eye for typography, layout, and smooth motion/interactions. * Are comfortable working with CMS platforms (like Payload) and leveraging data to drive SEO and conversion experiments. * Obsess over Core Web Vitals, accessibility, and browser performance.

Job Description

## About Vercel:

Vercel gives developers the tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. As the team behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, Vercel helps customers like Ramp, Supreme, PayPal, and Under Armour build for the AI-native web.

Our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products. That starts with creating a place where everyone can do their best work. Whether you're building on our platform, supporting our customers, or shaping our story: You can just ship things.

## About the Role:

The design team at Vercel is comprised of capable and considerate humans working to solve challenges that are unique, complex, and nuanced—just like the web. Vercel is looking for an experienced individual to join the Design Engineering team at Senior or Staff level. The Design Engineering team is responsible for the highest level of polish, creativity and interaction on Vercel.

You will work across the logged out experience of Vercel,shaping the future of [Vercel.com](http://Vercel.com), events, and marketing surfaces that introduce the world to Vercel. You'll work on design initiatives and create thoughtful, innovative, systems-based solutions for top-of-funnel experiences, working closely with design, marketing, sales, GTM, Analytics, product design, and engineering.

Designers at Vercel have broad creative license, and the freedom to create and lead new, design-driven projects. If you are someone who gets excited about the possibility of creative development, uncovering insights to drive conversion, improving user experience, experimenting, and personalizing, then this might be the right role for you.

If you’re based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (SF, NY, London, or Berlin), the role includes in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. If you're located beyond that distance, the role is fully remote. For location-specific details, please connect with our recruiting team.

## What You Will Do:

Report to our Director of Design Engineering and help Vercel strengthen its acquisition surfaces by driving design leadership and engineering excellence on [vercel.com](http://vercel.com), events, and related experiences.

Contribute to the design process by gathering requirements, planning and ideating from the start of a project, and shaping modular systems for repeatable marketing and growth use cases.

Demonstrate an understanding of the development workflow, CMS and analytics integrations (Payload, Rudderstack, Clearbit, [Sequel.io](http://Sequel.io), etc.), and how to streamline processes with cross-functional partners.

Work with designers, marketers, and engineers to collaborate on ideation and ensure high-quality, performant implementations across campaigns and pages.

Help lead the technical roadmap for acquisition surfaces, championing iterative improvements to browser performance, accessibility, Core Web Vitals, and SEO.

Provide design systems feedback and iteration to help empower the entire company with a first-class, consistent web experience.

Advocate for and mentor other design engineers, sharing best practices in frontend craft, animation, experimentation, and performance.

Help grow the team and elevate design and engineering within the company.

## About You:

Depth and quality of your experience is more important than years. That said, successful candidates typically have at least 5+ years of development experience.

Strong programming skills, experience with application development, and excellent troubleshooting skills.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a keen eye for detail.

Excellent understanding of Next.js and Vercel, CMS platforms like Payload (or Contentful), analytics platforms like Amplitude or Heap, and design tools like Figma.

Familiarity with growth experimentation, SEO principles, and marketing/brand campaigns.

Skills and understanding on graphic design (layout, typography, color, illustration).

Perfectionism with the experience (polish, readability, accessibility, performance).

Experience working in or with Software as a Service (SaaS) companies.

You have closely collaborated with folks from marketing and design in previous roles.

## Benefits:

Competitive compensation package, including equity.

Inclusive Healthcare Package.

Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.

Flexible Time Off.

We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $196,000-$294,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.

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