Staff Design Engineer

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San Francisco, CA
In-Office
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Software
The Role
The Staff Design Engineer will design analytics interfaces, enhance UX/UI for multi-channel communication, develop reusable component patterns, and collaborate with technical teams. Responsibilities include advocating for users, documenting design practices, and participating in team rituals.
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Staff Design Engineer

Clerk Chat | Full-time

About Clerk Chat

Clerk Chat is a conversational AI platform that handles customer communications across SMS, voice, and email channels. Recently Series A funded, we're scaling our engineering team with strategic focus on AI Voice and RCS initiatives.

What You'll Do
  • Design and evolve analytics and monitoring interfaces for AI agent performance tracking, execution monitoring, and real-time alerting systems and conversational interface.
  • Create intuitive conversational experiences that integrate analytics visualizations, inspired by modern chat interfaces like Perplexity
  • Work directly with the CTO and engineering team to develop UI/UX for complex multi-channel communication management (SMS, voice, email)
  • Champion user experience and accessibility across our platform, maintaining a high quality bar for both technical and non-technical users
  • Contribute to the design and development of reusable component patterns for agent configuration, dashboard visualization, and real-time data displays
  • Collaborate with engineers on elegant and consistent component APIs using TypeScript/React, with focus on developer experience
  • Advocate for users by identifying areas of improvement in our analytics interfaces, agent monitoring dashboards, and communication workflows
  • Participate in day-to-day team rituals like design crit, story creation, weekly stand-ups, and sprint planning
  • Help us hire more amazing people to grow the team and bring diverse perspectives to our design process
  • Document design patterns, guidelines, and best practices for our growing product surface area
What You Need
  • Minimum 5 years of tech/startup or digital product agency experience, or equivalent
  • Strong proficiency in Figma and modern design tools
  • Extraordinary visual design skills with strong understanding of UX/UI principles, particularly for data-heavy interfaces and analytics platforms
  • Front-end development skills in semantic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (React preferred) - ability to collaborate closely with engineers and understand implementation constraints
  • Experience designing complex dashboards, monitoring tools, or analytics interfaces
  • Strong organizational skills and love for documentation
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, bridging the gap between design and engineering
  • Comfort working in a technical environment with APIs, webhooks, and developer-focused products
Nice to Have
  • Experience with conversational UI/chat interface design
  • Understanding of AI/ML products and their unique UX challenges
  • Background in real-time data visualization and monitoring systems
  • Experience maintaining design systems or reusable component libraries
  • Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or API-driven architectures
  • Experience at growth-stage startups (Series A/B)

Top Skills

CSS
Figma
HTML
JavaScript
React
Typescript
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
0 Employees
Year Founded: 2022

What We Do

If you're looking to elevate your customer service with AI driven personalized care, you've come to the right place. 🤝

Clerk Chat is a conversational messaging platform that amplifies human agents with AI agents. We bring the magic of concierge-level service to any organization so you can capitalize on every conversation. ✨

Empower your team across Microsoft Teams, Zoom & Webex to instantly send and receive SMS, WhatsApp and RCS. Bring real-time, multiplayer communication to your customer base with instant messaging capabilities. 🚀

Curious to learn more? Visit https://clerk.chat to schedule a demo.

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