Product Design Engineer

About the company Our client is a fast-growing technology company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the user experience of a software product from early research through production release, blending design judgment with hands-on prototyping and some frontend coding. Partner with users and cross-functional colleagues to shape clear, dependable interfaces for complex workflows. What you'll do - Speak regularly with users, watch how they work and turn patterns into clear product direction. - Frame ambiguous problems, form a point of view and decide what to build and what to cut. - Design interactions for handing tasks to an automated assistant, including checking its progress and sources, approving key actions and fixing errors. - Sketch ideas in design tools or code, create working prototypes and commit code to the production frontend. - Stay involved after handoff through testing, release and later refinements. - Demonstrate the product to users, gather lessons from early pilots and live usage, and keep go-to-market, support, operations and engineering aligned on a single product narrative. - Raise the standard of interaction and visual design across the product and keep the design system consistent in both design tools and code. - Use current AI-assisted design and coding tools day to day while applying your own judgment to architecture, accessibility and quality. **Requirements** What we're looking for - A body of work showing refined, minimalist and individual taste in flows, writing and small details. - A track record of releasing real product interfaces rather than only branding or promotional material, for example in B2B software, marketplaces, workflow tools, AI or consumer apps. - Full ownership of features from user research through release and subsequent improvement. - Comfort using AI coding assistants to take your own designs closer to production. - Comfort working directly with users in a customer-facing capacity. - Ability to be in the office in New York 2 to 3 days per week. Bonus points - Background in legal technology or AI training data and evaluation. - Familiarity with frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript. - Formal design education. **Benefits** Compensation and benefits - Base salary: USD 180,000 to 230,000 per year - Equity Location and work model - New York, NY, United States - Hybrid, 2-3 days per week in office - Full-time