Mixpanel
Staff Design Engineer
San Francisco, US (Remote) · Staff+
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About the role
- This isn't a maintenance or systems stewardship role.
- You'll be the designer who ships production code.
- The engineer who holds an uncompromising craft bar.
Responsibilities
- Build the infrastructure for an AI-native design practice
- Translate Mixpanel's design standards, principles, and taste into systems that live in the code.
- Build a token system, component library, documentation, and guidelines that AI agents, AI coding tools, and AI prototyping workflows can reliably build on.
- Evolve our design system to be foundational infrastructure for AI-assisted workflows.
- Own the bridge between design and code
- Build systems that connect design to code and keep the two in sync.
- Make design a force multiplier for engineering, not a bottleneck.
- Build the workflows, tools, and infrastructure that let designers and PMs prototype at high fidelity, with working code, real components, and interactive states, without waiting on engineering.
- Identify the places where design and engineering lose time, intent, or quality in the handoff, and build AI-powered workflows that close those gaps.
- Enable designers to work more code-adjacent and engineers to build with better components.
Requirements
- Proficiency in modern front-end frameworks: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Next.js
- Experience with design systems.
- Experience working with tools like Figma, Storybook, VSCode, Chromatic, and GitHub
- Experience with accessibility: WCAG 2.2, ARIA patterns, semantic HTML, APCA, accessible data viz
- Experience working in a product analytics or developer-focused product environment
- If you have questions about the specific range, your recruiter can share this information.
- Experience with design systems. Ideally you've built or overhauled one at scale
- 8+ years in design engineering, UX engineering, design technology, or a related hybrid role
- Experience designing or building data visualizations
- Background in brand and/or product design
Compensation
- The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions.
- Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level.
- In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database.
- To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future.
- Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
- Mental Wellness Benefit
- Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Volunteer Time Off
- Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break
- please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*
Company info
- We're a leader in analytics with over 29,000 customers and $277M invested from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital.
This listing is sourced directly from Mixpanel's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.