engineering
Posted Dec 9, 2025Design Engineer
at Vercel
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- The design team at Vercel is comprised of capable and considerate humans working to solve challenges that are unique, complex, and nuanced—just like the web.
- Advocate for and mentor other design engineers, sharing best practices in frontend craft, animation, experimentation, and performance.
Requirements
- As the team behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, Vercel helps customers like Ramp, Supreme, PayPal, and Under Armour build for the AI-native web.
- experience of Vercel,shaping the future of Vercel.com , events, and marketing surfaces that introduce the world to Vercel.
- You'll work on design initiatives and create thoughtful, innovative, systems-based solutions for top-of-funnel experiences, working closely with design, marketing, sales, GTM, Analytics, product design, and engineering.
- Designers at Vercel have broad creative license, and the freedom to create and lead new, design-driven projects.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the development workflow, CMS and analytics integrations (Payload, Rudderstack, Clearbit, Sequel.io , etc.), and how to streamline processes with cross-functional partners.
- Help lead the technical roadmap for acquisition surfaces, championing iterative improvements to browser performance, accessibility, Core Web Vitals, and SEO.
- experience with application development, and excellent troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent understanding of Next.js and Vercel, CMS platforms like Payload (or Contentful), analytics platforms like Amplitude or Heap, and design tools like Figma.
- Familiarity with growth experimentation, SEO principles, and marketing/brand campaigns.
- Skills and understanding on graphic design (layout, typography, color, illustration).
- Experience working in or with Software as a Service (SaaS) companies.
Experience
- experience is more important than years. That said, successful candidates typically have at least 5+ years of development experience.