Tassel is a profitable and growing edtech company that powers graduation and student milestone experiences for hundreds of universities, including UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, USC, NYU, UPenn, Texas A&M, and Arizona State.
We are a 100% remote company and have been long before COVID. We value people who take ownership, move quickly, communicate clearly, and improve things without waiting to be asked.
Tassel is seeking a Senior Design Engineer who lives at the intersection of product design, user research, and code - someone who thinks like a designer but builds like an engineer.
You will be embedded directly within our frontend engineering team, owning the end-to-end user experience from research and user personas through interaction design, accessibility, production implementation, and iteration.
You will build production-quality interfaces while scaling the entire team’s ability to ship polished experiences faster. You will also own and expand the design system, component library, patterns, tools, and guardrails that allow engineers and product managers to build rapidly with AI without sacrificing usability, consistency, accessibility, or visual craft.
Key Responsibilities
- Own user research, interviews, usability testing, and user personas
- Translate user needs into clear product flows, prototypes, and production experiences
- Build production-quality UI components and interactions across desktop and mobile
- Own accessibility standards and ensure inclusive experiences across the product
- Embed within the frontend team and increase its design and development velocity
- Rapidly prototype new products, workflows, and interaction patterns
- Own the quality and consistency of UI implementation across the product
- Build and scale Tassel’s design system, component library, and frontend patterns
- Create tools and guardrails that help engineers and PMs build polished interfaces with AI
- Identify and improve confusing or inconsistent experiences without waiting to be asked
- Explore conversational, agentic, voice, and UI-less product experiences
- Partner with Product and Engineering from discovery through production
You Might Be a Fit If
- You are equally comfortable interviewing users, working in Figma, and writing frontend code
- You have strong frontend skills with React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
- You have strong product design, interaction design, visual design, and HCI fundamentals
- You have experience conducting user research and turning insights into product decisions
- You understand accessibility standards and know how to apply them in design and code
- You have shipped polished products and know what it takes to get from 90% to 100%
- You can prototype ideas in hours, not days
- You think in systems and build reusable, maintainable components
- You independently notice problems, improve them, and push fixes into production
- You actively use AI coding agents and emerging development tools