[Remote] Design Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Harmony is reimagining access to essential services, beginning with affordable housing and expanding toward other public benefits. The Design Engineer will own the product’s design system and user experience while independently prototyping and shipping frontend changes, collaborating closely with product and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own Harmony's design system: visual language, components, tokens, patterns, and documentation
• Build the skills, agents, and processes that make design a fast part of how we ship
• Work directly with product and engineering to research, design, and ship what's next
• Notice what's wrong in the product, then design and ship the fix
• Prototype quickly, test your assumptions with real users, and iterate on what you learn
• Turn complicated, high-stakes processes into experiences that feel simple and calm
• Make the whole team better at product thinking: join the research, weigh in on strategy, and run design reviews
• Pick up whatever else the team needs. We're at a stage where everyone is close to every part of the work

Skills

• Harmony. New York City, or remote within the US with strong overlap on Eastern hours and occasional travel to New York
• You'll need to be self-sufficient prototyping and able to make frontend changes to production yourself
• Strong UX judgment. Flows, information architecture, and the unhappy paths. You design for people under real constraints
• Opinionated but collaborative. You have strong taste, you can say why, and you change your mind when the evidence says to
• You collaborate well. You're a good partner to product, engineering, and everyone else on a small team: you work through constraints together, and people like building with you
• AI-native. Coding agents are part of how you design and build every day
• You ship. You're comfortable writing and releasing frontend code to build and maintain the design system, prototype your own ideas, and land product improvements without waiting on an engineer. Backend isn't part of the job (unless you want it to be); we have a team for that
• You communicate well. In writing and in person, with product, engineers, customers, and founders alike. On a small, distributed team, effective communication is vital
• You must be authorized to work in the US; we're not able to sponsor visas at this time
• You've authored a design system before, not just maintained someone else's decisions
• Experience designing for people in stressful or high-stakes situations: healthcare, benefits, finance, government
• Experience in a regulated or compliance-adjacent environment (fintech, healthtech, govtech); our product handles sensitive personal data and the right person isn't cavalier about it
• Brand, marketing site, or deck work; none of it is required here, but interest or past experience is a plus
• You've worked at an early-stage startup before

Benefits

• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Unlimited PTO
• A flexible remote-working policy

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