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Staff Design Technologist
Location
United States
Posted
130 days ago
Salary
$140K - $205K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Design Technologist
Kong Inc.
• Lead AI-enabled design workflows • Build and maintain our AI prototyping starter kits, repos, and conventions • Write internal scripts, tools, and workflows that accelerate how the Product Design team works • Experiment with MCP Apps (ext-apps) and emerging agent UI patterns — helping establish how Kong designs for AI-native and agent-driven experiences • Stay close to what's emerging in AI tooling and enable the team on the latest best practices • Build trusted, ongoing relationships with frontend engineers • Help reduce drift between design and implementation systems, in service of both teams • Collaborate with your design systems colleagues, designers, and engineers to identify or revamp reusable patterns • Audit and identify opportunities to reduce one-off patterns and improve cross-product cohesion • Contribute to documentation, usage guidance, and governance — and enable the team effectively on changes • Help establish a high standard for visual quality, interaction design, and usability across technical product experiences • Bring strong judgment around when to follow conventions versus when to push forward • Partner with designers to improve consistency, polish, and accessibility
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Design Engineering, Product Design, Design Systems, or similar hybrid roles — rooted in design
- Strong product and visual design instincts, especially for technical or developer-focused products
- Technical fluency with modern frontend systems — enough to collaborate deeply with engineers, contribute meaningfully to shared systems, and build internal tooling
- Hands-on experience with AI tooling, prototyping workflows, or building design-adjacent scripts and automations
- Familiarity with Figma ↔ code workflows — CodeConnect, design tokens, component APIs, Storybook, or similar
- Experience working closely with both designers and frontend engineers as a collaborative partner
- Genuine excitement about where AI is taking product development — and the initiative to help your team get there
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to build trust across disciplines
- Strong systems thinking and ability to balance short-term pragmatism with long-term scalability
Benefits
- health insurance
- 401(k) plan
- short and long term disability benefits
- basic life and AD&D insurance
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