Please note: This role is in-office in San Francisco at our headquarters working with the entire company five days per week. We are not open to remote candidates.
Campfire builds modern ERP software for finance teams — bringing accounting, close, and reporting workflows into one fast, intuitive system. We're a small, senior team obsessed with craft, speed, and making complex financial software feel simple to use.
About the Role🌟We're looking for a Staff Design Engineer to help shape the core experience of Campfire's ERP platform. You'll take on our thorniest, highest-leverage design problems — the ones that touch multiple teams, span complex workflows, and require deep systems thinking. This is a senior individual-contributor role: you'll set design direction, raise the bar for craft across the team, and partner directly with engineering and product leadership to ship work that materially changes how finance teams operate.
You'll have significant ownership over ambiguous, cross-cutting problems (think: reimagining the general ledger experience, or designing a coherent system for how data flows between modules) rather than a single feature area.
💼 We Need Someone WhoOwn end-to-end design for complex, ambiguous problem spaces spanning multiple product areas — from framing the problem to shipping and iterating post-launch
Partner with product and engineering leads as a peer, shaping roadmap and strategy, not just executing against a spec
Design for dense, data-heavy workflows (tables, ledgers, reconciliation, reporting) in a way that stays clear and fast to use
Strengthen and evolve Campfire's design system and interaction patterns so the product feels coherent as it grows
Mentor other designers, give sharp critique, and raise the craft bar across the team
Talk directly to customers — finance and accounting teams — to ground design decisions in how they actually work
Drive design reviews and help the team make faster, better-informed decisions
8+ years of product design experience, with a track record of owning complex, high-impact product areas end to end
Experience designing for data-dense, workflow-heavy software (fintech, ERP, dev tools, B2B SaaS, or similar) is a strong plus
Strong systems thinking — you can zoom out to see how a feature fits the broader product, and zoom in on pixel-level details
A portfolio that shows range: 0-to-1 work, and rigorous iteration on existing systems
Excellent communication skills; you can build alignment with engineers, PMs, and executives, and explain design rationale clearly
Comfort working in ambiguity, with incomplete requirements, and evolving your own scope
Prior experience at an early- or growth-stage startup, with a bias toward shipping over perfecting in isolation
Able to code your own prototypes (HTML/CSS and enough JavaScript to build interactive, functional mockups)
📢 Let's Connect
Think you're the perfect fit? We're excited to meet you! Reach out, share your story, and let's explore how you can ignite change at Campfire.
❤️🩹 Benefits
We provide top decile benefits including 100% premium coverage for employees and 80% coverage for dependents with comprehensive healthcare and dental care options.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of product design experience
- Track record of owning complex, high-impact product areas end to end
- Experience designing for data-dense, workflow-heavy software
- Strong systems thinking and ability to work from broad product architecture to pixel-level details
- Portfolio demonstrating 0-to-1 work and rigorous iteration on existing systems
- Excellent communication skills with engineers, product managers, and executives
- Comfort working with ambiguity, incomplete requirements, and evolving scope
- Prior experience at an early- or growth-stage startup
- Ability to code interactive, functional prototypes using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Ability to work in-office in San Francisco five days per week
What We Do
Campfire is the AI-native ERP for mid-size and enterprise companies to close fast and scale faster. Features include a powerful general ledger, invoicing, billing, revenue accounting and reporting, financial statements, AI-powered conversational reporting, and automated accounting workflows such as bank reconciliation. The product is natively integrated with industry leading solutions such as Ramp, Rippling, Salesforce, and has over 100+ API endpoints to build custom integrations and workflows. Campfire's customers range from 50 to 5,000 employees with a variety of business models including SaaS, usage, consulting and transactions including customers such as Replit and Advisor360. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Accel, Foundation Capital, Y Combinator and Capital49 (Airwallex).
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