Design Engineer

Role Summary

Confido is the AI infrastructure powering modern CPG — the platform that 200+ brands like OLIPOP, Simple Mills, Dr. Squatch, and Tropicana use to run everything from deductions to production planning. Finance, accounting, sales, and operations, unified in one system for the first time.

We're growing 5x year over year with a small team in New York City; the people who join now will shape the product, the culture, and the company itself.

If you want your work on shelves everywhere — and outsized ownership while you build — we'd love to meet you.

We're building the operating system for CPG brands, covering demand planning, finance, accounting, and sales in one platform. Design here means owning real surface area across a complex, interconnected product, not shipping buttons in isolation.

We're a small team that moves fast, communicates directly, and sweats the details. You'll work closely with product and engineering to define not just what things look like, but how the whole experience fits together.

Responsibilities

• Shape the strategic direction of product and feature roadmaps, not just execute them
• Build working prototypes early, put them in front of real customers, and use what you learn to reshape the feature before it's fully built outearly, put them in front of real customers, and use what you learn to reshape the feature before it's fully built out
• Partner tightly with engineering and product to define, prototype, and ship—often all in the same week
• Sweat the details, the hundreds of small decisions that make a complex operator tool feel effortless instead of overwhelming
• Take validated patterns and refine them directly in code, contributing back into the design system
• Find ways to ship great work under real constraints. Scrappily, not sloppily

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience across both design and front-end engineering, ideally in B2B SaaS, enterprise tools, or complex workflow products
• A portfolio that demonstrates strong product thinking, polished craft, and the ability to make hard problems feel simple
• Track record of seeing large, ambiguous projects through from zero to shipped
• Active use of tools like Cursor and Claude Code, with clear opinions on how to get high-quality output from them
• A strong eye for design, with deep care for layout, motion, affordances, and visual polish
• Direct communication style; you influence through the quality of your thinking, not org chart position

You'll stand out if you

• Ship opinionated work and defend it with taste and data
• Active, non-gimmicky use of AI tools in your day-to-day workflow
• Interest in defining interaction patterns for how people work alongside AI agents
• Treat ambiguity as an invitation, not a blocker
• Stay current on AI research and tools, shown in your design process
• Designed for financial, enterprise, or other domains that require complex systems thinking previously
• Have experience in high-growth startups

Learn more about Design at Confido here https://wooded-maxilla-fc0.notion.site/Design-at-Confido-357061e1396480c585d8fd795b43d186

Benefits

🌴 PERKS + BENEFITS

• Equity — own a meaningful piece of the company you’re helping build
• Fully paid health coverage through Aetna — we cover 100% of employee premiums
• Top-tier dental and vision coverage through Guardian
• Carrot Fertility Pro — comprehensive fertility and family-forming support
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Unlimited PTO — plus regular 4-day holiday weekends we actually take
• 401(k) through Vestwell
• Paid relocation support — we’ll help you make the move to NYC
• Fully equipped workspace from day one — laptop, monitor, keyboard, and a $200 stipend to personalize your setup
• Team perks — catered Friday lunches, team dinners, and unlimited coffee + snacks featuring products from the brands we work with

Confido provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.