About Vercel:

Vercel gives developers the tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. As the team behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, Vercel helps customers like Ramp, Supreme, PayPal, and Under Armour build for the AI-native web. Our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products. That starts with creating a place where everyone can do their best work. Whether you're building on our platform, supporting our customers, or shaping our story: You can just ship things.

About the Role:

The design team at Vercel is comprised of capable and considerate humans working to solve challenges that are unique, complex, and nuanced—just like the web. Vercel is looking for an experienced individual to join the Design Engineering team at Senior or Staff level. The Design Engineering team is responsible for the highest level of polish, creativity and interaction on Vercel. You will work across the logged out experience of Vercel, shaping the future of [Vercel.com](https://vercel.com), events, and marketing surfaces that introduce the world to Vercel. You'll work on design initiatives and create thoughtful, innovative, systems-based solutions for top-of-funnel experiences, working closely with design, marketing, sales, GTM, Analytics, product design, and engineering. Designers at Vercel have broad creative license, and the freedom to create and lead new, design-driven projects. If you are someone who gets excited about the possibility of creative development, uncovering insights to drive conversion, improving user experience, experimenting, and personalizing, then this might be the right role for you. If you’re based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (SF, NY, London, or Berlin), the role includes in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. If you're located beyond that distance, the role is fully remote. For location-specific details, please connect with our recruiting team.

What You Will Do:

Report to our Director of Design Engineering and help Vercel strengthen its acquisition surfaces by driving design leadership and engineering excellence on [vercel.com](https://vercel.com), events,* and related experiences.
Contribute to the design process by gathering requirements, planning and ideating from the start of a project, and shaping modular systems for repeatable marketing and growth use cases.
Demonstrate an understanding of the development workflow, CMS and analytics integrations (Payload, Rudderstack, Clearbit,

Sequel.io, etc.),* and how to streamline processes with cross-functional partners.

Work with designers, marketers, and engineers to collaborate on ideation and ensure high-quality, performant implementations across campaigns* and pages.
Help lead the technical roadmap for acquisition surfaces, championing iterative improvements to browser performance, accessibility, Core Web Vitals, and SEO.
Provide design systems feedbackand iteration to help empower the entire company with a first-class, consistent web experience.
Advocate forand mentor other design engineers, sharing best practices in frontend craft, animation, experimentation,*and performance.
Help grow the teamand elevate designand engineering within the company.

About You:

Depthand quality of your experience is more important than years. That said, successful candidates typically have at least 5+ years of development experience preferred.

Benefits:

Competitive salary ($196k-$294k SF base), equity package, doctor's visits covered by insurance, four weeks paid time off, and flexible time off policy.

Location:

Remote US or offices in San Francisco (SF), New York (NY), London (UK), Berlin (Germany) with in-office anchor days if local.

Employment Type:

Full Time

Experience Level:

Senior / Staff level

Skills:

Next.js, payload CMS, analytics tools such as Amplitude/Heap, design tools like Figma, SEO knowledge, design engineering, development workflow understanding, animation techniques, analytics integrations (Rudderstack/Clearbit/Sequel.io), cross-functional collaboration, browser performance optimization, accessibility standards, Core Web Vitals optimization, design systems feedback & iteration, technical roadmap leadership, and mentoring skills.

Application URL:

https://vercel.com/careers/design-engineer-us-5709080004