Design Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering

GrowthX AI

7h•Remote

About The Position

AI is reshaping go-to-market. Not just content creation. The entire surface area: product experiences, developer tools, documentation, integrations, research systems. GrowthX runs a high-end AI product studio for this shift. We build AI agents, custom products, and advanced automations for B2B companies on top of Output.ai, our open-source AI workflow framework. Think Palantir's forward-deployed model, but for GTM. Recent examples: For Lovable: An AI agent that creates templates for their product For Airbyte: An agent that integrates with new connectors and creates docs pages by sending pull requests For Augment: An entire research site for discovering and cataloging MCPs Every one of these shipped with a real interface. The agent is only as good as the experience around it. We need someone who can design and build that experience — not hand off a Figma file and wait.

Requirements

Designer who codes. You think in components, not just pixels. You're comfortable in React, TypeScript, and Tailwind. You can take a rough idea and have a working prototype in the browser before most designers have finished their first Figma frame.
Taste over process. You have strong opinions about design and you notice when something is off. You care about the craft — but you express that through speed, not preciousness. You'd rather start from an existing design system like Shadcn and bend it to your needs than roll your own from scratch. The goal is great work fast, not original work slow.
Progress over perfection. Growth is about getting things live, reading the signals, and iterating on what works. You prototype fast, ship fast, and refine based on real traffic — not assumptions. You'd rather have something live and learning than something perfect and unseen. The worst outcome isn't a rough first version. It's spending weeks crafting something that never gets traffic.
Product-minded. You don't just make things pretty. You think about what the user is trying to do, where they'll get stuck, and what the simplest path to the outcome is. You push back on features that don't make sense, even if the client asked for them.
Comfortable with ambiguity. Client projects start messy. You can take a vague brief — "we need a dashboard for this agent" — and turn it into something clear and opinionated without needing everything spelled out.
AI-native. You live in Claude Code. You use AI to move faster — generating components, iterating on layouts, exploring ideas. But you also stay on top of how AI is changing design itself: new interaction patterns, generative UI, what's becoming possible that wasn't six months ago. This space moves fast and you're paying attention.

Nice To Haves

A portfolio of shipped products, not just mockups
Experience designing developer tools, data products, or B2B SaaS
Strong motion design sense — you know when and how animation improves comprehension
Contributions to open-source design systems or component libraries
Agency or studio background where you shipped across multiple domains quickly
Experience with data visualization or complex information design

Responsibilities

Design and build products that help companies grow. A research hub for one client, a micro app for another, a full marketing site for the next. Our AI agents generate the content and data — you design and build the experiences people actually use. You own it from concept to production code. You design in the browser, not just in Figma. You write real React and TypeScript that ships to real users.
Work directly with clients. You'll sit in kickoffs, understand the product and the audience, and propose how it should look and feel. You're not waiting for a spec. You're helping write it.
Set the visual bar for client work. Every product we ship represents GrowthX. You'll establish patterns, component libraries, and design standards that make our work consistently excellent across engagements.
Know what's possible with Output.ai. Output can power almost anything — a changelog generator, a lead enrichment pipeline, a contract analyzer, a research paper summarizer. The range of what our agents can produce is wide. You need to understand those capabilities so you can propose the right product experience for each one. When a client asks "what could we build?", you should have ideas — not just about how it looks, but about what it could be.