Senior Product Design Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants anywhere in the world.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of core product surfaces from start to finish, encompassing booking flows, scheduling features, and both team and enterprise interfaces.

• Develop and experiment with functional prototypes using coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and v0.

• Deliver production-ready components that product engineers can utilize directly across Cal.com's product interfaces.

• Design, create, and manage custom components.

• Enhance the user interface by reviewing existing components, addressing gaps, refining primitives, and introducing new components.

• Ensure consistency in the design system across tokens, spacing, states, dark mode, and motion.

• Implement motion thoughtfully and with moderation.

• Oversee outcomes from hypothesis formulation and success definition through to implementation and analysis of results.

• Guarantee accessibility by managing keyboard navigation, focus, semantics, contrast, and motion preferences.

• Improve empty states, error messages, loading behaviors, and motion details.

• Collaborate transparently with the Head of Product and Design Engineer, sharing preliminary work and integrating feedback.

• Document your thought process through written materials, Looms, and prototypes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Product designer with considerable progression into design engineering.

• Proven experience managing complex and ambiguous product areas from problem identification to launch and iteration.

• Proficient in HTML, CSS, TypeScript, and React.

• Capability to create and manage custom design-engineered components independently of third-party libraries.

• Extensive knowledge of headless primitive composition, such as Base UI, Radix, or comparable frameworks.

• Strong understanding of UI motion design principles, including easing, timing, and choreography.

• Regular use of AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and v0.

• Deep familiarity with web standards and browser platform primitives.

• Experience in developing and maintaining design systems.

• Knowledge of WCAG, ARIA, assistive technologies, and accessibility assessments.

• Understanding of APIs, data models, states, and architectural limitations.

• Excellent written communication skills.

• Collaborative, self-sufficient, and asynchronous working style.

• Contributions to open-source projects and publicly accessible side projects are advantageous.

• Familiarity with Cal.com, scheduling, calendaring, time zones, and recurrence rules is a plus.

• Basic knowledge of locale- and time-aware APIs such as Intl.DateTimeFormat is a bonus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity participation.

• Fully remote and asynchronous work from any location at any time.

• Consistent salary regardless of your place of residence.

• No daily standups, micromanagement, or unnecessary meetings.

• Flexible schedule with no need for approval for personal matters.

• 30 paid out-of-office days per year.

• Annual team retreats in stunning locations.

• A people-first, stable, family-friendly, and kind culture.