Design Engineer

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 Vercelshaping the future of 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.

• Report to our Director of Design Engineering and help Vercel strengthen its acquisition surfaces by driving design leadership and engineering excellence on 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 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.

• 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.

• 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 $196000-$294000. 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. 

Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color gender expression or identity sexual orientation national origin citizenship age marital status veteran status disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

What We Do

From solo developers building their first app to large enterprise teams if it needs to be fast reliable and beautifully built it runs on Vercel. Our platform powers millions of deployments a day. We started with a simple belief: the web should be fast for everyone everywhere. That belief became Next.js. Then a platform. Then the infrastructure layer for the AI-native web.We are backed by the amazing team at Accel and CRV and we're headquartered in San Francisco.