About Typeface
We help the world’s biggest brands move from brief to fully personalized campaigns — in days, not months.
Founded by Abhay Parasnis and backed by Microsoft, GV, Salesforce, Lightspeed, Madrona and Menlo, we’re building category-defining technology at the intersection of creativity and AI with real impact. Join us to help shape the future of enterprise marketing.
What You'll Do
We are currently seeking a Design Engineer to join the Design team at Typeface! You’ll drive end-to-end experiences that help enterprise marketers easily turn ideas into fully personalized campaigns — fast, intuitive, and on-brand. This is your chance to shape how marketers work alongside AI — not just through interfaces, but through systems that multiply creativity and impact.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Work in between the design team and the front-end team to craft new high-quality user experiences. You’ll help bridge some of the gaps between what the design team envisions and what gets shipped into our product with a strong focused on the details to make our user experience A+ and delight our customers.
- Help validate or discard hypotheses by testing new designs and concepts with high-fidelity prototypes
- Help set up and maintain our design system working with our design and front-end team.
- Present work to peers, product teams and executive leadership/stakeholder
- Conceive, prototype, and iterate on new high-quality user experiences.
- Quickly bring new ideas to life through functional UI’s and prototypes.
- Help drive the design process with engineering teams to ship these new products to users.
What You Bring
- You’re passionate about your craft and sweat the details until what you ship is A+, delighting our customers
- You’re self-reliant and can independently drive a project working closely with your XFN partners
- You’re adaptable and able to comfortably context-switch between multiple projects
- Solid understanding and knowledge of some design principles and on how to build experiences that span mobile and desktop browsers and native platforms
- BS/BA in a technical field such as CS or equivalent years of experience
- 3+ years of software engineering experience (HTML/CSS, Javascript and all the recent technologies) shipping software products
- 3+ years of experience shipping software products
- Experience in developing and designing high-quality user experiences for responsive web products
- Experience in full lifecycle of design and development
- Experience with front-end technologies and prototyping tools, including Figma, PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, React Native, NodeJS)
- A solid portfolio of things you’ve designed and/or built across a range of platforms, including native and web-based applications
- Bonus: Prior experience working in a start-up environment
- Bonus: Prior experience working in the Gen AI space
Location
This is a hybrid role based in our Palo Alto HQ. We collaborate in-office 3 days a week.
Base Salary
The salary range for this role is $125,000-$180,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation — including salary, equity, and 401(k)
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
- HSA and FSA options to support your financial wellness
- Flexible time off — including parental leave
- Well-being programs — resources to support your mental and physical health
- Daily lunch & snacks
- Mentorship & impact — work closely with top AI leaders on products that ship
Equality Opportunity Statement
We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, medical condition, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We comply with applicable laws in every jurisdiction where we operate.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Build something big — Be part of a fast-growing startup defining a new category: marketing orchestration powered by Agentic AI.
- Your work will matter — Trusted by Fortune 100 companies, our platform delivers 10x content velocity and 90% faster campaigns.
- A+ team — Collaborate with veterans from Adobe, Microsoft, Google, and top AI companies.
- Backed by the best — GV, Salesforce Ventures, Microsoft, Lightspeed, Madrona and Menlo ($165M raised).
- Recognized for innovation — TIME Best Inventions, Fast Company Next Big Thing in Tech, Gartner Cool Vendor, Adweek AI Company of the Year, LinkedIn Top Startup, Webby Award (AI Work & Productivity).
Top Skills
Typeface San Francisco, California, USA Office
San Francisco, CA, United States
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