Primary Skills:React (advanced), TypeScript (advanced), Figma (intermediate), Accessibility (advanced), LLM APIs (intermediate)
Contract Type: W2
Duration: 6 months (Possible Extension)
Location: San Diego, CA / San Francisco, CA ()
Pay Rate: $120 - $130 per hour on W2 Basis
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Job Summary: This role bridges the gap between design and engineering, leading technical strategy for design systems and AI-powered experiences. You will develop innovative prototypes and establish best practices to ensure high-quality, rapid delivery across platforms. The position requires driving new initiatives and influencing teams with a clear vision for design and technology integration.
Key Responsibilities:
What You Will Build:
Design system foundations and accessible, tested components that design and engineering teams can adopt with confidence across platforms Conversational and agentic AI experiences that are trustworthy and handle failures well, plus the patterns and guardrails other teams reuse Prototypes with realistic mock data that break from traditional patterns and test new ideas with users Processes for integrating GenAI throughout the design cycle, from early exploration to production Tools and frameworks that help designers and engineers deliver faster and with greater precisionHow You Will Work:
- Partner with Product Designers, engineers, PMs, and data science leads to solve complex use cases as they arise
- Own ambiguous, cross-team problems from definition through delivery with little oversight
- Keep design and code in sync across platforms, and close the gaps in process, tooling, data, and team structure that cause them to drift
- Decide when to move fast and when to build for production, and help others make the same call
- Lead large, cross-team initiatives and set design technology strategy for the domain
- Explain that strategy clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, and influence partners and leaders through prototypes and storytelling
- Mentor designers and engineers on using data, analytics, research, and technology to improve design outcomes
- Assess tools and frameworks and drive their adoption across teams
- Track advances in LLMs, code, content organization, and conversation design, and recommend GenAI solutions that fit team requirements and the design vision
Must-Have Skills:- React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA)
- Testing, Git, and code review
- LLM APIs, NLU, AI coding tools, and personalized AI experiences
- Figma and motion tools
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