Product Design Engineer

Role Summary

Bring vision to life

As the title implies, product design engineers (PDEs) play a role in product, design, and engineering at HASH. They set the creative direction of the product, and bring experiences into being that directly solve user needs.

The role ensures a tight loop, with designers having the engineering agency to advance their own vision of how features should look, and work, with the ability to get feedback directly from users without intermediary product managers. This lets us iterate for more rounds: both more quickly, and over a longer period of time where required, without the normal exhaustion common in such efforts.

Responsibilities

The look, feel and UX of HASH

PDEs are responsible for the look, feel, and user experience of the HASH product. They report directly to our CEO, and are expected to have their own strong creative vision.

A deep understanding of HASH, its users and competitors is critical. The role of a PDE includes certain tasks traditionally assigned to "product managers" at larger-sized tech companies, and in addition to gathering requirements, ideating solutions, sketching out UX in Figma, and designing product UI, PDEs own the actual end-to-end delivery of solutions to user problems. PDEs work with an engineering manager to get these solutions built.

Requirements

Ability to design and code

PDEs rely on their expert-level proficiency in the tools they use every day: including Figma, TypeScript, and React. Experience working with browser-based animation and visualization libraries (including Three.js) and building performant, data-intensive applications (e.g. using WebGL and HTML <canvas>) will also prove useful. Working knowledge of 3D modeling tools suchs as Spline may be helpful, if only for tweaking AI-generated assets.

Deep industry knowledge, and awareness of other potential solutions within our problem-space, are critical to being an effective product design engineering. An intuitive sense of good UX, as well as experience with formal models and frameworks, are required.

What You’ll Achieve

Building HASH

You'll work directly with the firm's creative and product leads, and will have responsibility for the look, feel and user experience of the parts of HASH you work on.
You won't be siloed in any one area, but will work on multiple features and design challenges every month.
You'll design solutions to user problems, and bring them into life, owning their end-to-end delivery from discovery to announcement, collaborating with technical engineers.
You'll grow our extensive internal design system and Storybook library.

Our mission

Overcome bounded rationality

Learn more about our mission →

Our culture

Intense by design

We're focused on building something big, in the service of something important (our mission). To that end, we're unapologetically excited. Actions speak louder than words, and we measure performance by output. You can work from wherever, but we know that teams are more productive together, in-person. We prioritze speed, and measure product delivery timelines in hours and days, not months and years. We value high-energy, high-expectations people who do what they say and say what they mean.

Our benefits

Life at HASH is good

We provide leading equity-weighted total comp, and depending on your location also offer:

Employee pension and employer contributions
Gym membership/workout class passes
Cycle-to-work scheme
Tax-advantaged options (e.g. EMI in the UK)
Fully-funded HSA & comprehensive health insurance

Interested?

Let us know you exist

We don’t accept applications to specific roles at HASH, but you can tell us about yourself to make sure you’re on our radar, and share why you're interested in our work.