[Hiring] Staff Design Engineer @Mixpanel

Role Description

At Mixpanel, we believe design excellence is a competitive moat. In a world where AI makes it easier than ever to ship, we believe the quality of the experience — how it feels, how it builds trust, how it handles complexity with grace — that separates good products from great ones.

As a Staff Design Engineer at Mixpanel, you'll sit within the design organization and lead the transformation of our design system from a component library into something far more important: the infrastructure that powers how we design, build, and ship in an AI-native world.

You'll encode our craft, standards, and vision directly into the systems, tools, and workflows that every designer, engineer, and AI agent in our org builds on. This isn't a maintenance or systems stewardship role. It's a transformative one.

You'll work at the frontier of what design and engineering collaboration looks like when AI writes most of the code, agents prototype from intent, and the design system is less a library and more a living foundation for everything we ship.

You'll be the designer who ships production code. The engineer who holds an uncompromising craft bar. The person who sees the future of how Mixpanel will look and behave in an AI-native world, and builds the infrastructure to make it real.

What you'll do

• Build the infrastructure for an AI-native design practice
• Translate Mixpanel's design standards, principles, and taste into systems that live in the code.
• Build a token system, component library, documentation, and guidelines that AI agents, AI coding tools, and AI prototyping workflows can reliably build on.
• Evolve our design system to be foundational infrastructure for AI-assisted workflows.
• Shape how Mixpanel looks and behaves in an AI-native world
• Collaborate on reimagining Mixpanel for a world where interfaces are conversational, agentic, and adaptive.
• Use both deep design sensibility and production engineering skills to help bring our AI product vision to life.
• Own the bridge between design and code
• Build systems that connect design to code and keep the two in sync.
• Define what "shippable" looks like as AI writes more of the code.
• Work directly in the codebase and ship PRs that improve the product.
• Make design a force multiplier for engineering, not a bottleneck.
• Stand up prototyping and AI tooling infrastructure
• Build workflows, tools, and infrastructure that let designers and PMs prototype at high fidelity.
• Identify places where design and engineering lose time, intent, or quality in the handoff.
• Build AI-powered workflows that close those gaps.
• Set and model the craft bar
• Establish what great looks like through the quality of what you ship.
• Enable designers to work more code-adjacent and engineers to build with better components.
• Stay ahead of how AI is changing EPD workflows and bring that change into the org responsibly.

What success looks like

• The design system is a reliable foundation that AI tools and agents build on.
• Design and code are in sync; the gap between what's designed and what ships is closed.
• Designers can prototype at high fidelity without waiting on engineering.
• Engineers spend less time on UI polish and rework, more time on features.
• The Mixpanel product feels unmistakably itself — cohesive, expressive, and craft-forward.
• The org is enabled on the latest AI-assisted design and development workflows.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in modern front-end frameworks: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Next.js
• Experience with design systems; ideally you've built or overhauled one at scale
• Strong design sensibility: you care about craft, consistency, interaction quality, and taste
• Fluency in AI-assisted workflows: canvas-to-code, code-to-canvas, AI prototyping tools, MCP integrations
• Experience working with tools like Figma, Storybook, VSCode, Chromatic, and GitHub
• A track record of working across design and engineering
• Comfortable operating with high autonomy
• 8+ years in design engineering, UX engineering, design technology, or a related hybrid role

Bonus points

• Experience designing or building data visualizations
• Background in brand and/or product design
• Experience with accessibility: WCAG 2.2, ARIA patterns, semantic HTML, APCA, accessible data viz
• Experience working in a product analytics or developer-focused product environment

Compensation

The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level. In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage.

Mixpanel Compensation Range: $236,000 — $300,000 USD

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
• Mental Wellness Benefit
• Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Volunteer Time Off
• Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break

Culture Values

• Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
• Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment.
• One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact.
• Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback.
• Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs.
• Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems.

Why choose Mixpanel?

We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics.

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply.