Other Member of Design Staff
- Location
- New York, NY (Hybrid)
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Department
- Design
- Compensation
- $355K – $545K, Offers equity
Benefits. A competitive package designed around the needs of every single employee. Coverage is total.
Compensation is set at the top 1% of the market for the role and location. Final offer amounts are determined by a single factor.
About the role
Califa is hiring an Other Member of Design Staff to work alongside the Member of Design Staff. The two roles share a title, a hiring bar, a compensation band, and a set of responsibilities, and are distinguished by the word “Other”.
The Other Member of Design Staff takes on the problems the Member of Design Staff is not working on, and reviews the ones they are. The role carries the same scope and the same authority. It is not a junior position, a backup, or a second choice, and the posting has been reviewed to make sure it does not read like one.
The right candidate is a Member of Design Staff in every respect, and is comfortable being the other one.
What you’ll do
- Lead the projects the Member of Design Staff is not leading, end to end.
- Review the Member of Design Staff’s work, and have yours reviewed in return.
- Produce production-ready designs, specs, and prototypes.
- Pair with engineers through implementation and sign off on every screen before release.
- Own the design system’s components, tokens, and documentation, in Figma and in code.
- Cover the full design function when the Member of Design Staff is out of office.
- Present work to the executive team and to customers.
What we’re looking for
- 10+ years of product design experience, matching the Member of Design Staff year for year.
- A portfolio of at least 30 shipped features, none of which overlap with the Member of Design Staff’s.
- Expert in Figma, including variables, modes, and plugin development, and expert in React, TypeScript, and CSS.
- Has been the second designer at three companies and the first designer at none.
- Deep knowledge of accessibility standards, with every product you have shipped audited at WCAG 2.2 AAA.
- Able to disagree with the Member of Design Staff in review, and to be right.
- No interest in the title Member of Design Staff, now or in the future.
- Available for the weekly crit in person, which has two attendees.
Nice to have
- Type design or iconography experience.
- Experience with native platforms (SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose) in addition to web.
- Has spoken or written publicly about design systems.
- A referral from the Member of Design Staff.