Design Engineer (Contract)

About us:

We're on a mission to make it possible for every person, team, and company to be able to tailor their software to solve any problem and take on any challenge. Computers may be our most powerful tools, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use on them every day. At Notion, we want to change this with focus, design, and craft.

We've been working on this together since 2016, and have customers like OpenAI, Toyota, Figma, Ramp, and thousands more on this journey with us. Today, we're growing fast and excited for new teammates to join us who are the best at what they do. We're passionate about building a company as diverse and creative as the millions of people Notion reaches worldwide.

Notion is an in person company, and currently requires its employees to come to the office for two Anchor Days (Mondays & Thursdays) and requests that employees spend the majority of their week in the office (including a third day).

About the role:

This role sits on the web presence team, part of the Creative Team at Notion. Web presence is responsible for our marketing website, Notion.com. We exist to create a high quality baseline for Notion’s reputation in the world and to our users. We aspire to make the site a dream to make, edit and visit. Our team is a small group of designers and engineers serving creative needs across the company and pushing forward our unique and beloved brand. From design systems in Figma to design-centered production code and bespoke tooling, you’ll ship meaningful work as you bridge a code-friendly design team with a design-friendly engineering team. This is a great opportunity to help shape the team’s culture and have a major impact on the craft of our work.

What you'll achieve

• Join a growing team of designers and engineers and help to shape our website

• Bridge a code-friendly design team and a design-friendly engineering team

• Create beautiful front-end experiences, and custom tools that enable said experiences to scale. (Our stack: headless CMS, NextJS, Style Dictionary, design tokens, and some custom tools we’ve made)

• Create design systems, prototypes and whatever else is needed to bring great ideas to life on Notion.com

• Collaborate with teams across the company to bring initiatives and new products to market using novel design and storytelling solutions

Skills you’ll need to bring

• Exceptional front-end development skills, especially with CSS - you know how to build fast, beautiful, and accessible experiences using modern techniques.

  • Motion/animation experience is a plus.

  • Experience working within large, multi-lingual websites is a plus.

• Refined taste in design and a thorough understanding of web typography.

• 4–8 years of design engineering experience on in-house teams, and an outstanding portfolio of high-craft work.

• Comfort with ambiguity and early-stage ideas; an ability to turn nebulous prompts into actionable outcomes.

• A passion for toolmaking and expanding access to technology.

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in New York, the estimated base salary range for this role is $80 - 110 per hour.

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