Member of Design Staff

The role

You will own visual craft and product design at Highlight. You will turn interaction ideas and wireframes into high-fidelity interfaces and prototypes for AI-native software.

What you will do

• Own visual and interaction quality across Highlight's product
• Regularly talk to users and incorporate solutions into designs
• Partner with the Head of Design to translate concepts into high-fidelity UI
• Collaborate daily with engineers to bring interfaces and motion into production
• Rapidly prototype AI-native interaction models
• Design and refine micro-interactions, animations, transitions, and layout systems
• Define new patterns for how users interact with AI systems
• Set and uphold a high bar for visual craft, consistency, and accessibility

Required qualifications

• Technical skills
• Must be based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco or NYC
• Extreme ownership, accountability, and proactiveness
• Experience designing desktop interfaces
• Proven track record of shipping outstanding UI at scale
• Ability to prototype advanced interactions quickly
• Experience with designing AI-native interaction patterns
• Excellent communication skills
• Collaborative mindset
• Hustle and grit

Nice to have

• World-class at visual and interaction design
• Technical or fluent with tools like Cursor or Claude Code
• Ownership mentality
• Type-A tendencies

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous equity package
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• Parental leave
• Paid team lunches during the week
• Relocation package

About the company

Highlight is building a shared intelligence layer for the modern workforce. It unifies context across people and tools to route knowledge and automate workflows.