Staff Design Engineer

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29000 companies including Workday Pinterest LG and Rakuten Viber Mixpanels AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption improve retention and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics session replay experimentation feature flags and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit to learn more.

About the role

At Mixpanel we believe design excellence is a competitive 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 youll 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. Youll 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 isnt a maintenance or systems stewardship role. Its a transformative one. Youll 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.

Youll 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 youll do

Build the infrastructure for an AI-native design practice

Translate Mixpanels 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

Sit within the product design team and collaborate on reimagining Mixpanel for a world where interfaces are conversational agentic and adaptive. You have the rare combination of deep design sensibility and production engineering skills and youll use both to help bring our AI product vision to life with craft and coherence that generic AI outputs cant match.

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. Ship PRs that improve the product. Make design a force multiplier for engineering not a bottleneck.

Stand up prototyping and AI tooling infrastructure

Build the workflows tools and infrastructure that let designers and PMs prototype at high fidelity with working code real components and interactive states without waiting on engineering. Identify the places where design and engineering lose time intent or quality in the handoff and build AI-powered workflows that close those gaps.

Set and model the craft bar

Establish what great looks like not through documentation alone but 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 not an obstacle they work around
• Design and code are in sync; the gap between whats 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 as it evolves into an AI-native experience
• 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
• Experience with design systems. Ideally youve 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 and whats emerging in this space
• Experience working with tools like Figma Storybook VSCode Chromatic and GitHub
• A track record of working across design and engineering: youve done both and you know how to collaborate across both
• Comfortable operating with high autonomy: you set direction influence standards and manage complex projects without a lot of hand-holding
• 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

Benefits and Perks

• 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

*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*

Culture Values

• Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
• Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data experience and collective wisdom to drivepowerful outcomes.
• One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
• Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
• Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers needs ensuring their success is our north star.
• Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems making sophisticated things accessible.

Why choose Mixpanel

Were a leader in analytics with over 9000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz Sequoia YC and most recently Bain Capital. Mixpanels 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. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling reliability design and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means youll be helping the worlds most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel we are focused on things that really matterour people our customers our partnersout of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women people with disabilities veterans underrepresented minorities and LGBTQ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Weve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.