Design Technologist

Airtable is a no-code app platform that empowers organizations to transform their business processes. They are seeking a Design Technologist to build and evolve their design system, collaborating with designers and engineers while integrating AI into UI development.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate on the existing system. Assess its state, establish direction with other contributors, and close the gap between design specs and implementation
• Build and ship components and tokens yourself, while evolving contribution standards with the broader community of designers and engineers who maintain the system alongside you
• Develop and evangelize a point of view on AI-assisted UI development. Experiment with tooling, workflows, and system structures that make AI a reliable collaborator for anyone writing UI code: engineers, designers, and PMs
• Build and maintain the AI tooling layer for UI: Claude skills, Cursor rules, LLM-consumable documentation, or whatever meaningfully improves the quality and velocity of coding UI
• Partner with designers, engineers, and accessibility to Improve the quality of user experience created by everyone working with the system—through advocacy, better documentation, clearer patterns, and tooling that makes the right thing the easy thing