Director of Design Engineering

Role Overview

• Own the AI-first user experience for intelligence workflows
• Design and implement workflows where AI meaningfully reduces cognitive load (e.g., investigation setup, triage, summarization, entity linking, report generation, alert review).
• Build “AI-in-the-flow” patterns: inline suggestions, copilots, agent task panels, explainable recommendations, smart defaults, and guided wizards—without turning the product into a chat box.
• Define interaction patterns for agentic experiences (tasking, progress, tool calls, approvals, undo/redo, auditability, and fail-safe fallbacks).
• Conduct lightweight user research (interviews, usability tests, workflow observation) and translate insights into journey maps, task flows, wireframes, prototypes, and shipped UI.
• Partner with Product to clarify user problems, success criteria, and tradeoffs—then execute quickly and iteratively.
• Ensure the UX supports novice-to-expert progression (discoverability for new users, speed and power features for experts).
• Implement designs in a modern front-end stack (typically React + TypeScript), delivering clean, testable, accessible, performant UI.
• Build reusable components and patterns; contribute to (or lead) a design system using tools like Figma + Storybook.
• Instrument experiences with analytics/telemetry to measure adoption, workflow success, and time-to-insight improvements.
• Design for “evidence-first” outputs: citations, sources, confidence indicators, what-changed diffs, and clear user controls.
• Implement guardrails in the UI: policy-aware interactions, redaction/PII-aware patterns (where applicable), and safe failure modes.
• Close the loop with feedback: capture user ratings, corrections, and outcomes to improve models and workflows over time.
• Work daily with Product, AI/ML, and Backend teams to define API contracts, data needs, latency targets, and UX acceptance criteria.
• Raise the bar on craft: advocate for coherent UX, consistent patterns, and high-quality delivery—while keeping momentum and pragmatism.
• Mentor others informally through design critiques, code reviews, and clear communication.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience delivering UX/UI design + front-end engineering for modern web applications (or equivalent depth).
• Strong portfolio demonstrating shipped product work (not just concepts)—including complex workflows and/or data-rich applications.
• Proficiency building production UIs with React and TypeScript (or comparable modern framework experience).
• Fluency in HCD methods: user interviews, task analysis, prototyping, usability testing, and iterative delivery.
• Strong product instincts: can translate ambiguity into clear workflows, make smart tradeoffs, and ship in increments.
• Experience integrating with APIs and data services; comfort collaborating on interface contracts and edge cases.
• Working knowledge of accessibility (WCAG fundamentals), performance basics, and secure UI patterns (auth, RBAC-aware UX).

Tech Stack

• React
• TypeScript