Design Engineer at Runway

About the role

We are looking for a passionate Designer Engineer to join a highly creative team and help us design and build the tools of the future. This candidate should be a motivated self-starter with experience working closely with engineering teams to ship products.

This role requires a blend of design skills and technical expertise, along with a genuine passion for both. As part of a team, you'll collaborate with product designers, researchers, and engineers. Your tasks will include developing initial concept prototypes, designing high-value interactive features, and producing detailed, data-intensive designs and user interfaces.

What you’ll do

• Implement and prototype captivating user experiences with cutting-edge front-end technology.
• Stretch the limits of engineering to broaden design possibilities.
• Create tools and frameworks for widespread use within the larger design and engineering teams.
• Work with product designers, engineers, and product managers to enhance the current user experience.

What you’ll need 💻

• Experience designing flows, prototypes and high-fidelity UI's for web products and strong visual design skills
• Professional experience using React.js and Typescript.
• Proficient in Git and package managers like NPM.
• Strong understanding of visual and interaction design, as well as usability testing.

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $175,000-220,000