Staff Designer building prototypes and front-end experiences for Thunderbird’s open-source Thunderbolt AI client. Shaping trustworthy, accessible, enterprise-ready workflows and reusable interaction patterns.
Responsibilities
Build functional prototypes and product experiments directly in the Thunderbolt codebase.
Translate ambiguous product ideas, user workflows, partner feedback, and enterprise needs into clear, usable product experiences.
Define interaction patterns for AI-powered chat, search, research, workflow automation, knowledge retrieval, and enterprise administration.
Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping and implementation while maintaining quality, usability, security, accessibility, and maintainability.
Partner with product, design, engineering, enterprise-facing teams, contractors, and external contributors to explore, validate, and refine product direction.
Contribute production-quality front-end code where appropriate.
Determine whether prototypes should be discarded, refined, generalized, or productionized.
Improve usability, accessibility, consistency, and polish of the Thunderbolt user experience.
Develop reusable components, interface patterns, or design-system elements.
Bring a user-centered perspective to technical and product discussions involving AI behavior, trust, transparency, permissions, or workflow clarity.
Design for enterprise needs including data sensitivity, user control, administrative visibility, auditability, and security expectations.
Help Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client for organizations, move from early workflows into clear, trustworthy, enterprise-ready product experiences.
Requirements
10+ years of relevant experience in design engineering, front-end engineering, UX engineering, product design with strong technical implementation experience, or a closely related role, with demonstrated leadership and impact beyond individual deliverables.
Strong front-end engineering skills, including experience with modern JavaScript or TypeScript, component-based frameworks, and building prototypes or production features directly in an application codebase.
Strong product and interaction design judgment, including usability, accessibility, information architecture, workflow design, and product polish.
Experience designing, prototyping, or building AI-enabled product experiences, such as chat, search, research tools, agents, automation, knowledge interfaces, or workflow tools where user trust, context, output quality, and human oversight are central to the experience.
Experience translating ambiguous product concepts into usable workflows, prototypes, and shipped product experiences, with the judgment to balance speed, quality, maintainability, learning, and product risk.
Experience providing technical or product leadership through mentoring, cross-functional coordination, reusable patterns, project ownership, or influence beyond individual deliverables.
Practical awareness of AI, privacy, security, and regulatory considerations, including transparency, user control, permissions, data handling, and trust; familiarity with frameworks such as the EU AI Act, Cyber Resilience Act, HIPAA, or comparable requirements.
Strong communication and collaboration skills with product managers, designers, engineers, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
Portfolio, case studies, shipped work, or examples demonstrating design-to-code execution, interactive prototypes, or product experience improvements.
Applicants must reside in Canada and have permanent work authorization; visa sponsorship is not provided.
Benefits
Fully remote work & schedule flexibility
Company-provided laptop
Annual bonus program
Monthly remote work stipend
Annual professional development stipend
Access to Coursera learning platform
Industry conferences
Company all-hands and team gatherings
24 days PTO per year (prorated)
Your birthday
Year-end company shutdown
9 wellbeing days
Public holidays
Other paid leave
Quarterly wellbeing stipend for personal / family activities
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