Design Technologist

## Responsibilities - Collaborate on the existing system. Assess its state, establish direction with other contributors, and close the gap between design specs and implementation. - Build and ship components and tokens yourself, while evolving contribution standards with the broader community of designers and engineers who maintain the system alongside you. - Develop and evangelize a point of view on AI-assisted UI development. Experiment with tooling, workflows, and system structures that make AI a reliable collaborator for anyone writing UI code: engineers, designers, and PMs. - Build and maintain the AI tooling layer for UI: Claude skills, Cursor rules, LLM-consumable documentation, or whatever meaningfully improves the quality and velocity of coding UI. - Partner with designers, engineers, and accessibility to improve the quality of user experience created by everyone working with the system—through advocacy, better documentation, clearer patterns, and tooling that makes the right thing the easy thing. ## Requirements - 8+ years at the intersection of design and engineering, with experience inheriting and evolving systems. - Deep fluency in design tokens, component architecture, theming, and accessibility standards (WCAG). - Ability to influence through craft, clarity, and relationships. ## Nice to Have - Strong design craft with a portfolio that shows both polished design work in application and production-quality libraries. - Active curiosity about AI-assisted development. Experimented with LLM-driven tooling, Claude skills, codegen, or similar workflows, and have opinions about where it’s heading. - Ability to prioritize a path forward. Strong instincts on sequencing and know what to fix now, what to document and defer, and what to let go. - Raise the bar around you. Motivated by the multiplier effect of improving how everyone at Airtable builds UI. ## Benefits Airtable is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any characteristic protected by applicable federal and state laws, regulations and ordinances. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant. VEVRAA-Federal Contractor. If you have a medical condition, disability, or religious belief/practice which inhibits your ability to participate in any part of the application or interview process, please complete our Accommodations Request Form and let us know how we may assist you. Airtable is committed to participating in the interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants. Compensation awarded to successful candidates will vary based on their work location, relevant skills, and experience. Our total compensation package also includes the opportunity to receive benefits, restricted stock units, and may include incentive compensation.