About the role

Staff Design Engineer defining the design system strategy and AI integrations at Juniper Square. Collaborating across Design, Engineering, and Product to enhance usability and efficiency.

Responsibilities

Own the design system strategy and roadmap: define what the system needs to become, set priorities, establish governance, and build the contribution model that makes it sustainable as the team and product grow.
Define the AI enablement strategy for design-to-engineering: determine how AI tools are integrated into the workflow from prototype to production, and build the systems that make the whole team faster and higher-quality.
Set the technical direction for UI quality across the product: define what good looks like, establish the standards and processes that maintain it, and make the case for that standard across design and engineering leadership.
Identify systemic quality gaps: look across the product surface and name the patterns no one else is naming, then build the plan to address them.
Build the infrastructure that lets designers ship in code: not by doing it yourself, but by creating the workflows, tooling, and templates that make it a sustainable part of the design team's practice.
Partner with Design and Engineering leadership to shape the long-term direction of how the two functions collaborate, where the boundaries are, and how they evolve.

10+ years of experience working across design and front-end engineering, with a portfolio that demonstrates both craft and leadership impact.
Proven experience building and scaling design systems: owning the roadmap, governance, and adoption strategy across a product organization, not just contributing components.
A strong, defensible point of view on what makes a great design system, backed by experience driving adoption across a product organization: not just building it, but getting designers and engineers to actually use it.
Deep front-end engineering skills (TypeScript, React, CSS) alongside genuine design taste. Comfortable reading and writing production code, but leading through judgment rather than throughput.
Experience defining technical strategy for design tooling, developer experience, or design-to-engineering workflows.
Experience thinking through how AI tools change team-level design and engineering workflows, and building systems or processes around that.
Strong communication and influence skills: can align design leadership, engineering leadership, and product around a shared technical direction without formal authority.
Fluency with AI-powered coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, v0.dev, or equivalent) as part of your core workflow.