Design Engineer

The role

You will own the design of products and features across tldraw's suite including tldraw.com, tldraw offline, and the SDK. You will work with engineers to prototype ideas and develop interaction models for production.

What you will do

• Own the design of products and features across tldraw.com, tldraw offline, our SDK and new product bets
• Take ambiguous product ideas from rough concepts through prototypes and polished experiences
• Build high-fidelity prototypes in code
• Work directly with engineers to turn designs into production experiences
• Sweat the details across interaction, motion, typography, layout, responsiveness and overall product feel
• Contribute to the evolution and consistency of the design language
• Explore unconventional interfaces and interaction patterns
• Make experimental things like demos, prototypes, side projects and ideas

Required qualifications

• Strong track record in product, interaction or digital design
• Strong portfolio showing exceptional product craft and substantial personal contribution to shipped products
• Experience working on sophisticated interactive software
• Excellent visual, interaction and product design judgement
• Experience prototyping ideas and iterating rapidly
• Frontend development experience to work directly in modern web technologies
• Familiarity with React, TypeScript, HTML and CSS, or the ability to become productive with them quickly
• Experience collaborating closely with engineers
• High agency and comfort working on loosely defined problems
• Clear communication skills
• Based in or willing to relocate to London and able to work regularly from our office

Nice to have

• Experience designing for canvas, spatial, multiplayer or agent interactions
• Strong motion, animation or prototyping skills
• Experience building side projects, tools or products of your own
• Contributions to open-source projects or communities
• Experience working across both consumer-facing products and tools for professional or developer audiences

Benefits

• Competitive salary + equity options
• Hybrid working from our London office
• 25 paid days holiday + UK public holidays
• Private health insurance
• Pension contribution
• Income replacement & employee assistance programmes
• Equipment allowance + great tech stack

About the company

tldraw is a London-based Series A startup building tools for infinite canvas and creative collaboration. Their open-source canvas SDK powers products built by developers around the world.