Staff Designer, Rapid Prototyping

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop functional prototypes and product experiments directly within the Thunderbolt codebase.

• Convert vague product ideas, user workflows, partner feedback, and enterprise requirements into clear and usable product experiences.

• Establish interaction patterns for AI-driven chat, search, research, workflow automation, knowledge retrieval, and enterprise administration.

• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to expedite prototyping and implementation while ensuring quality, usability, security, accessibility, and maintainability.

• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, and enterprise-facing teams to explore, validate, and enhance product direction.

• Contribute production-quality front-end code when necessary.

• Assess when prototypes should be discarded, refined, generalized, or transitioned to production.

• Enhance usability, accessibility, consistency, and overall polish of the Thunderbolt user experience.

• Create reusable components, interface patterns, or elements for the design system.

• Provide a user-centered perspective in technical and product discussions surrounding AI behavior, user trust, transparency, permissions, and workflow clarity.

• Take into account enterprise needs, including data sensitivity, user control, administrative visibility, auditability, and security expectations.

• Assist Thunderbolt in evolving from initial workflows to clear, usable, high-quality, enterprise-ready product experiences.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of relevant experience in design engineering, front-end engineering, UX engineering, product design with strong technical implementation expertise, or a closely related role, demonstrating leadership and impact beyond individual contributions.

• Proficient in front-end engineering, including modern JavaScript or TypeScript, component-based frameworks, and developing prototypes or production features directly in an application codebase.

• Strong judgment in product and interaction design, covering usability, accessibility, information architecture, workflow design, and product polish.

• Experience in designing, prototyping, or developing AI-enabled product experiences such as chat, search, research tools, agents, automation, knowledge interfaces, or workflow tools.

• Proven ability to translate ambiguous product concepts into usable workflows, prototypes, and released product experiences.

• Experience in providing technical or product leadership through mentoring, cross-functional coordination, reusable patterns, project ownership, or influence beyond individual deliverables.

• Practical understanding 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 similar requirements.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with product managers, designers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders.

• A portfolio, case studies, shipped work, or examples showcasing design-to-code execution, interactive prototypes, or product experience enhancements.

• Applicants must reside in and possess permanent work authorization for the specified country location(s) in the posting.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work and schedule flexibility.

• Company-provided laptop.

• Annual bonus program.

• Monthly remote work stipend.

• Annual professional development stipend.

• Access to the Coursera learning platform.

• Opportunities to attend industry conferences.

• Participation in company all-hands and team gatherings.

• 24 days of PTO per year (prorated).

• Paid day off for your birthday.

• Year-end company shutdown.

• 9 wellbeing days.

• Public holidays.

• Other paid leave options.

• Quarterly wellbeing stipend for personal or family activities.

• 401(k) contributions.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Disability insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Employee assistance program.

• Paid parental leave.

• Paid sick days.