Design Engineer

Profound is on a mission to help companies understand and control their AI presence. As AI-generated experiences increasingly shape how brands are discovered, trusted, and chosen, the quality of those experiences matters more than ever.

Design engineering is core to how we build at Profound. Our founder, Dylan Babbs, started his career as a design engineer, and we hold a high bar for craft, taste, and execution. As a Design Engineer, you will work between design and engineering by shipping high-quality, highly polished experiences across our product and, at times, our marketing surfaces.

What you’ll do

• Build and ship polished, production-quality UI across our core product

• Partner with product designers, product managers, and engineers to translate intent into precise, high-fidelity implementations

• Craft UI details including layouts, typography, responsiveness, motion, and micro-interactions using Tailwind CSS

• Contribute occasionally to the marketing site and logged-out experiences while maintaining the same bar for quality and performance

• Contribute to shared UI foundations including components, patterns, and design tokens

• Work across the stack using React, Next.js, and TypeScript to deliver fast, reliable interfaces

• Optimize for performance, accessibility, and maintainability without compromising on design

• Raise the bar for frontend craft through code reviews, critiques, and shared standards

Who you are

• Strong experience with React, Next.js, Tailwind, and TypeScript in production environments

• Exceptional CSS skills with a proven ability to build pixel-perfect, resilient user interfaces

• Strong eye for design and interaction with taste you can both defend and implement

• Comfortable owning work end to end from early exploration through shipped code

• Experience working closely with designers and engineers in fast-moving product teams

• Portfolio that demonstrates high-craft frontend or design engineering work

• Thrive in a startup environment that values speed, iteration, and quality

• Enjoy experimenting and working on side projects to stay current with leading edge technologies

• Strong product thinking and builder mindset, comfortable working across design, product, and engineering to ship work

• Can just do things

A note from our founder

In the evolving landscape of product development, exceptional design is not merely a nice-to-have, it is foundational. As software engineering becomes increasingly accessible, it is taste, creativity, and thoughtful execution that differentiate outstanding products from the rest.

I believe deeply that design sits at the core of our success. At Profound, my goal is to build a design team renowned for setting a new standard of excellence, crafting experiences so compelling they become benchmarks in our industry.

If you are someone who believes in the transformative power of great design and wants to create work that genuinely shapes the future, join us. Let’s redefine what’s possible together.

Dylan Babbs, Co-founder & CTO

Location

This is an on-site role based in our Union Square, NYC office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and meaningful impact.

For this role, the expected base salary range is $120,000 to $250,000. Profound’s total compensation package is designed to be competitive and includes base salary, equity, and a full range of benefits and perks. Final compensation will depend on factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location, and will be determined during the interview process. Our recruiting team will share more details about the full compensation package and benefits as you move through hiring.