Design Engineer

• 🌍 Location: We are full-remote and globally distributed! Our current team is distributed between GMT-5 and GMT+2, so we currently only hire in these timezones.

• 🎤 Interview process: 1) Call with one of our Talent Partners, 2) 60min technical interview, and 3) 15min call with an exec, 4) PostHog SuperDay (paid day of work). Read more about our interview process.

• 🖥️ Team: PostHog AI

• 💰 Compensation: Please check our compensation calculator.

• 🦔 Read more about how we hire and how we think about diversity & inclusion.

We're shipping every product that companies need to run their business from their first day, to the day they IPO, and beyond. The operating system for folks who build software.

We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort. We've since shipped more than a dozen products, including:

• A built-in data warehouse, so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.

• A customer data platform, so they can send their data wherever they need with ease.

• PostHog AI, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.

Next on the roadmap are CRM, messaging, revenue analytics, and support products. When we say every product that companies need to run their business, we really mean it!

We are:

1. Product-led. More than 100,000 companies have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.

2. Default alive. Revenue is growing 10% MoM on average, and we're very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on.

3. Well-funded. We've raised more than $100m from some of the world's top investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey.

We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible.

• Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook. Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions.

• Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. Engineers lead product teams and make product decisions. Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed.

• Shipping fast: Why not now? We want to build a lot of products; we can't do that shipping at a normal pace. We've built the company around small teams – autonomous, highly-efficient groups of cracked engineers who can outship much larger companies because they own their products end-to-end.

• Time for building: Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. We're a natively remote company. We default to async communication – PRs > Issues > Slack. Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days, and we prioritize heads down building time over perfect coordination. This will be the most productive job you've ever had.

• Ambition: We want to solve big problems. We strongly believe that aiming for the best possible upside, and sometimes missing, is better than never trying. We're optimistic about what's possible and our ability to get there.

• Being weird: Weird means redesigning an already world-class website for the 5th time. It means shipping literally every product that relates to customer data. It means building an objectively unnecessary developer toy with dubious shareholder value. Doing weird stuff is a competitive advantage. And it's fun.

The PostHog AI team leads the way in rethinking how PostHog should work in an AI-native world: Conversational, proactive, and capable of generating UI on the fly. This is not an "add an AI button to an existing interface" role. You will help invent entirely new interaction patterns for data-heavy workflows, from rich-text-and-chart notebooks to chat-driven analytics experiences, and explore early ideas such as adaptive UIs generated by LLMs in real time.

Example projects:

• Designing and implementing version 2 of the PostHog AI chat interface (full-screen layout, embedded widgets, multi-modal input)

• Creating a notebook-style interface that combines AI-generated charts, SQL, and natural language

• Building a component library optimized for rendering PostHog artifacts inside a chat-based interface

• Exceptional UI and UX design skills, demonstrated through shipped product work in complex or data-heavy interfaces such as analytics tools, dashboards, editors, or IDE-like surfaces

• Strong experience designing and implementing React and TypeScript frontends, including reusable component libraries or design systems

• Evidence of owning end-to-end product experiences, from concept through final implementation

• Strong product sense and a high bar for quality; we care deeply about taste, polish, and detail

• Ability to code at the level of a strong frontend engineer who can ship production-quality components independently

Nice to have's:

• Experience with chat-based products, conversational UX, or agent-driven interfaces

• Comfort working with LLMs, including prompt design, AI interaction patterns, or building AI-assisted interfaces

If you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you - we're happy to accommodate!

#LI-DNI