Position Summary:
We’re hiring our first ever Design technologist & Prototyper at Slack to work across design and engineering teams to create user experience prototypes, tooling to enable designers productivity and accessible, scalable interfaces through design systems and component libraries to ultimately build out a prototyping platform that allows designers to experiment with and publish workflows in local web or mobile environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Evangelizing the role of a design technologist across the design, product, and engineering teams
- Working directly with product designers early in product exploration initiatives to rapidly build and iterate on new product experiences
- Working with the User Research team to better understand what gaps exist in internal process, knowledge, or tooling across our design team
- Building tools that make prototyping within the Design organization easier and more tightly integrated with Slacks engineering architecture and APIs
- Making designers lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive by building custom tooling and apps, integrating with our established design systems architectures, and identifying opportunities for innovation and efficiency improvements
- Coaching other designers on front-end engineering and prototyping
- Contributing and helping shape our design system including: components, patterns, composition, and scalability
Required Education & Experience:
- Mastery of web development fundamentals
- GitHub, CodePen, or other links showcasing your skills, or a UI/UX portfolio is required
- Fluency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Experience working and collaborating with diverse teams in a dynamic, rapid-growth environment
- Track record of building and working with responsive, dynamic web pages
- Experience with Bootstrap is a plus
- 4+ years of engineering or development skills, OR significant industry experience uniquely qualifying you for this role
- Comfort with Python-based and React-based web frameworks
- Strong proficiency with version control systems, including Git
- Familiarity with modern technologies including Flexbox and CSS animations
- Deep understanding of how to create usable, accessible, and modular designs that can scale to millions of users
- An eye for and a passion for crafting pixel-perfect web experiences