Airtable

Airtable

Design Technologist

San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$224k-$317kDetected 14 days ago
LLMsFigmaDesign SystemsAccessibilityCommunication

About the role

  • More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.
  • This is a high-autonomy IC role with broad cross-functional reach.
  • You produce work you're proud of and can articulate why it's good.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate on the existing system. Assess its state, establish direction with other contributors, and close the gap between design specs and implementation.
  • Build and ship components and tokens yourself, while evolving contribution standards with the broader community of designers and engineers who maintain the system alongside you.
  • Develop and evangelize a point of view on AI-assisted UI development. Experiment with tooling, workflows, and system structures that make AI a reliable collaborator for anyone writing UI code: engineers, designers, and PMs.
  • Build and maintain the AI tooling layer for UI: Claude skills, Cursor rules, LLM-consumable documentation, or whatever meaningfully improves the quality and velocity of coding UI.
  • Partner with designers, engineers, and accessibility to Improve the quality of user experience created by everyone working with the system-through advocacy, better documentation, clearer patterns, and tooling that makes the right thing the easy thing.
  • Your design craft is strong. You produce work you're proud of and can articulate why it's good. You hold design systems to a high bar, both in their visual expression and their technical implementation.
  • You raise the bar around you. The best version of this role doesn't just improve the system-it improves how everyone at Airtable builds UI. You're motivated by that multiplier effect.
  • 8+ years at the intersection of design and engineering, with experience inheriting and evolving systems.
  • Deep fluency in design tokens, component architecture, theming, and accessibility standards (WCAG).
  • Collaborate on the existing system.

Requirements

  • Ability to influence through craft, clarity, and relationships.
  • You are actively curious about AI-assisted development.
  • You've already experimented with LLM-driven tooling, Claude skills, codegen, or similar workflows, and you have opinions about where it's heading.
  • You are able to prioritize a path forward.

Compensation

  • Our total compensation package also includes the opportunity to receive benefits, restricted stock units, and may include incentive compensation.
  • $224,000 - $317,200 USD

Benefits

  • To learn more about our comprehensive benefit offerings, please check out Life at Airtable.

Company info

  • What we're looking for
  • Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes.
  • Airtable has a design system with real foundations and a community of designers and engineers who contribute to it.
  • We're looking for someone who can be dedicated to building out and evolving this system, as well as bring a sharp point of view on how AI changes the way UI gets built.
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