• 6-ish years of product design experience, ideally with time spent at early-stage or fast-moving startups.
• A considered portfolio with zoomed-in detail and zoomed-out strategy.
• Craft obsession: Strong command of design foundations like typography, space, color theory, as well as UX clarity, and micro-interaction care.
• Comfort prototyping with code. You're not afraid to open a terminal, work next to engineers, or use AI tooling like Claude Code to ship real components
• A bias toward building. You don't think the design is done when the Figma is
• Strong inclination toward collaboration, comfort operating independently and remotely
• The ability to tell stories, and push past the obvious
• Experience designing for technical audiences a plus (developers, security engineers, DevOps)
• Figma mastery — it's our tool of choice, but increasingly not the only one
• Speak the web — read HTML and CSS without flinching. Inspect and edit a page comfortably. If you can write some, even better. If you've shipped real code, better still.
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