Design Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering

At GrowthX, we’re building the modern growth engine for marketing teams. Since launching in 2024, we've grown from concept to eight-figure annual revenue. To date, we've raised a $12M Series A led by Madrona Venture Group and we partner with 60+ companies ranging from high-growth startups to industry leaders like Lovable, Webflow, Ramp, Superhuman, Strapi, Abnormal Security, and Augment Code.

We’ve built something different: an operating system that unifies powerful AI workflows with forward-deployed experts to transform content into compounding organic growth. We’re building the growth infrastructure marketing teams wish they’d always had — the system that reliably turns context into strategy, strategy into execution, and execution into measurable growth.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

Think First, Build Second. AI made building fast and cheap. Writing code is no longer the bottleneck — thinking is. Before you build anything, invest real time understanding the problem. Study the context. Research what great looks like. Work backwards from the business reason into a detailed plan. The planning can still be fast, but it can't be skipped. Speed without direction is just drift.

Own the Outcome. Freedom and responsibility go together. We own our work, chase down answers, and take initiative. Don't wait for direction. Don't treat your scope as someone else's problem once it leaves your hands. Every one of us shapes the outcome.

Work in the Open. We're a remote company. Nobody can see you work. Share the plan before you execute. Share progress while you execute. A rough plan shared early beats a polished plan shared after the work is done wrong. If leadership has to chase you down to find out what happened, the process already failed.

Chase the Context. Read the docs. Understand the product, the space, the business, the customer. Nobody is going to sit you down and explain everything. The context is there — go get it. We're too small for anyone to just write code without understanding the business.

Move Fast, Stay Steady. Know when to sprint and when to pump the brakes. Don't over-engineer low-stakes tasks. Don't under-think critical ones. That judgment is what makes senior people here genuinely senior, regardless of title.

Process for Context, Not Control. We believe good process exists to share context, not enforce control. It should make smart people faster — not make average teams adequate. If you need Scrum, OKRs, and sprint cycles to keep a team productive, we're probably not the right fit — and that's okay.

Small team. High autonomy. No layers. You'll work directly with founders, engineers, and delivery leads.

We're not looking for a resume and a cover letter. We're looking for how you think and what you've made.

1. Include a link to your portfolio. We want to see shipped work — real products, not just mockups. If you don't have a portfolio site, a curated collection of screenshots and links works fine. Show us what you've built and how you think about design decisions.

2. Write a short article (1,000–2,000 words) covering two things:

   A. Your story. What you've built, how you think about design engineering, and why this role fits where you're headed.

   B. A product you'd build with Output.ai. Explore Output.ai, learn the framework, and propose a product you'd build on top of it. What's the idea, who's it for, and how would you design the experience? Bonus points if you prototype it — but a well-thought-out writeup is just as valuable.

Writing is how we work. We're a remote, async team where the quality of your written thinking determines the quality of what gets built. AI made everyone faster at writing code — that makes clear thinking, strong writing, and taste for great design the real differentiators.

Your article is your first impression. Make it count.

Perks:

🌍 Fully Remote Work

• Work from anywhere—your productivity, your space!

• We help set up your work environment to enable your best work.

• Minimal meetings and async communication for deep focus

🏖 Ample Time Off

• Enablement for you to recognize your countries holidays

• We encourage you to take the time you need to recharge!

📚 Professional Growth

• We’re an AI forward culture and work environment - Learn all things AI!

• Access to training, workshops & mentorship programs

• Support for external conferences & industry events

🤝 Collaborative Culture

• Open communication & feedback-driven environment.

• Clear, concise communication is key to our success.

Work Visa: Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the country of residence. We are not able to provide employment visa sponsorship at this time.

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