Product Designer - NY

Scope Labs is seeking a Product Designer to shape end-to-end product experiences, moving between Figma and front-end code to prototype and ship polished, accessible interfaces. The role also contributes to reusable design systems and brand, marketing, and client-facing creative work.

Responsibilities:

• Own Features from Ambiguity to Execution: Take functional requirements, business goals, and user needs and determine how they should come together as a clear, intuitive end-to-end experience. Define the interaction model, interface, states, and design foundation before partnering with engineers to bring the feature into production
• Design in Figma and Code: Move fluidly between design tools and the browser. Create polished interfaces, working prototypes, and production-ready front-end code using React, TypeScript, and modern CSS frameworks
• Shape the User Experience: Make thoughtful decisions about information architecture, workflows, responsive behavior, edge cases, empty states, and feedback patterns. Turn complex functionality into experiences that feel simple and intentional
• Craft Delightful Experiences: Focus on the details that make products feel effortless: motion, responsiveness, and tactile feedback - always balancing implementation cost with user impact
• Build Reusable Systems: Create and maintain reusable components, UI primitives, patterns, and design-system foundations that improve consistency and accelerate delivery across projects
• Establish Best Practices: Advocate for high-quality front-end architecture, accessibility standards, and thoughtful animation. Help evolve our internal design systems and libraries
• Prototype Fearlessly: Explore, experiment, and test. Sometimes, the fastest path to clarity is to build it — in React, Claude Code, Figma, etc
• Contribute Beyond Product Design: Help shape brand identities, landing pages, marketing websites, launch campaigns, pitch decks, sales materials, visual systems, and other creative work for Scope and our clients
• Improve How We Work: Help establish design-engineering standards, improve internal workflows, evolve shared libraries, and identify new tools or processes that raise the quality and speed of delivery
• Communicate with Clients: Present work clearly, explain design and technical decisions, gather feedback, and help clients move from unclear requirements toward confident product decisions
• Operate with Ownership: Manage your work independently, surface risks early, and take responsibility for ensuring the projects you support meet Scope’s standards for craft, usability, and execution

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in product design, front-end development, or a hybrid role such as design engineer, creative developer, UI engineer, or product designer with strong coding ability
• A strong portfolio demonstrating polished digital products, thoughtful interaction design, and high-quality front-end implementation
• Strong product judgment and the ability to make confident decisions around hierarchy, usability, information architecture, and interaction patterns
• Experience building with React or React frameworks like Next.js
• Strong command of responsive design, cross-browser behavior, and modern layout systems
• Proficiency in Figma, including components, variants, auto layout, prototyping, and design-system workflows
• Understanding of motion design principles; ability to express them with libraries like Framer Motion, React Spring, or GSAP
• Familiarity with performance optimization, page speed, rendering behavior, and front-end best practices
• Comfort working across the full feature lifecycle, from early exploration and prototyping through engineering collaboration, QA, and launch
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain design decisions to designers, engineers, product leaders, and clients
• Self-starter with high ownership, strong attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-moving environment
• Experience designing brand identities, landing pages
• Experience designing and implementing motion, transitions, and micro-interactions using tools such as Framer Motion, React Spring, or GSAP
• Curiosity about emerging design and development tools, including AI-assisted design, prototyping, and front-end workflows
• Experience with animation tools or creative coding (Framer, Three.js, Rive, Lottie)
• Experience with mobile frameworks (React Native, Expo) and cross-platform interaction design