Design Technologist
Apply on AirtableAirtable is hiring a Design Technologist in San Francisco, CA or New York, NY to help build and evolve its design system. The role sits in Design and involves work in both Figma and production code, with broad cross-functional collaboration. The position includes developing a point of view on AI-assisted UI development and building tooling that improves UI quality and velocity.
AI skillsThis role asks for AI & agentic skills, exactly what we teach at Into Design SystemsWhat you'll do
- Collaborate on the existing design system and assess its current state
- Establish direction with other contributors and reduce gaps between design specs and implementation
- Build and ship components and design tokens
- Evolve contribution standards with designers and engineers maintaining the system
- Develop and advocate a point of view on AI-assisted UI development
- Experiment with tooling, workflows, and system structures for AI-assisted UI coding
- Build and maintain AI tooling for UI, such as Claude skills, Cursor rules, and LLM-consumable documentation
- Partner with designers, engineers, and accessibility to improve user experience quality through advocacy, documentation, patterns, and tooling
What they're looking for
- Strong design craft and ability to explain design quality
- High standards for design systems in visual expression and technical implementation
- Ability to work across design and code
- Portfolio showing polished application design work and production-quality libraries
- Active curiosity about AI-assisted development
- Experience experimenting with LLM-driven tooling, Claude skills, codegen, or similar workflows
- Ability to prioritize sequencing and decide what to fix, document, defer, or let go
- Motivation to improve how Airtable builds UI
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