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title: 'Design engineer (UK) at WRITER'
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# Design engineer (UK) at WRITER

- **Company:** WRITER
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-11-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/writer/00f6bb59-1f15-4429-906d-809ad100c0f5

## Job description

🚀 About WRITER WRITER is the AI platform built for the world’s most ambitious marketing and revenue teams, bringing the frontier of AI to the people who drive enterprise growth. With WRITER, autonomous agents work across the buyer journey, continuously executing on market signals and enterprise intelligence to grow revenue faster. Every agent action and asset is grounded in trust, built on an Enterprise Brain that unites brand, product, and company knowledge with fiduciary-grade governance and compliance.

Fortune 500 companies are transforming how they go to market with WRITER, including 3 of the top 5 US banks, 2 of the 5 largest global CPG conglomerates, and 4 of the top 5 US healthcare insurers. Founded in 2020, WRITER is backed by investors including Insight Partners, ICONIQ, Radical Ventures, Premji Invest, Balderton, B Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, Accenture, Citi Ventures, IBM Ventures, WndrCo, and others. Learn more at [WRITER.com](http://WRITER.com).

📐 About the role Design engineers sit at the intersection of design and engineering. As a design engineer at WRITER, you'll own the Writer Design System (WDS) — how it's built, how it's maintained, and how both humans and AI agents use it to ship product. This role matters more now than ever. AI coding agents write more of our production code, and they ship whatever they find. A design system that's incomplete or inconsistent doesn't just slow designers down; it gets compounded at scale by every agent that builds against it. You'll make sure WRITER's core UI library is complete and trustworthy enough to build on, working closely with the designers, PMs, and engineers who rely on it every day. You'll help shape the surfaces that define how our product feels to use, and help set the standard and process for how the EPD org ships product. This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, New York City, Seattle, or London hubs. This role will be reporting to the Director of product design. We are open to hiring for this role at multiple levels, with compensation ranges scaled to match your experience, expertise, and the scope of the role.

🦸🏻‍♀️ What you'll do

- Own the Writer Design System (WDS) as your primary domain — agentify and maintain it, ensuring it's optimized for both humans and AI agents building with it
- Design and build production-quality UI components and features, owning surfaces from sketch to ship
- Ship design-led work that wouldn't survive an engineering backlog — polish passes, micro-interactions, and brand moments that make the product feel alive
- Architect new primitives and extend the system's core components, shaping its technical direction while keeping documentation, examples, and libraries in sync across Figma, .md skills, and Storybook
- Uphold the bar for front-end craft across accessibility, motion feel, consistency, and quality, ensuring accessibility is baked into every design system component
- Help shape the design-to-code workflow, researching the latest tools and practices to unlock org-wide productivity and democratize workflows across the EPD organization
- Partner with designers, PMs, and engineering leads to measure WDS adoption, close gaps, and make sure shipped features meet design system standards

⭐️ What you need

- 4–8+ years building production frontends with TypeScript and React, with a track record of owning a system, platform, or surface end-to-end rather than individual features
- Solid instincts for animation principles including easing curves, choreography, anticipation, follow-through, interruptibility, and perceived performance
- Fluency in Figma at expert level — auto-layout, variants, variables, and code connect — and proficiency with design engineering technologies like framer-motion, gsap, and lottie for web-based animation
- A demonstrable obsession with craft, backed by a portfolio, side projects, GitHub, or production work that includes systems-level work and not just feature work
- Experience driving adoption of a design system or shared platform across an engineering org, with a track record of influencing technical or design direction beyond your immediate team
- Experience with AI product surfaces — tool-call UIs, streaming responses, agent state, and dynamic UI rendering — and comfort navigating ambiguous, cross-team problems with good judgment about when to loop others in
- A genuine commitment to WRITER's values of Connect, Challenge, and Own

🍩 Benefits & perks (UK full-time employees):

- Generous PTO, plus company holidays
- Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
- Paid parental leave for all parents (16 weeks)
- Fertility and family planning support
- Early-detection cancer testing [through Galleri](https://www.galleri.com/partner/writer)
- Competitive pension scheme and company contribution
- Annual work-life stipends for:
- Wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc.
- Learning and development stipend
- Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites
- Competitive compensation and company stock options

## About WRITER

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: WRITER provides an enterprise AI platform that enables organizations to build, activate, and supervise AI agents grounded in company data and powered by its own family of large language models (LLMs).
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C; $326M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: May Habib (CEO) & Waseem AlShikh (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Enterprise AI / Generative AI Software Development
- **Target Customers**: B2B; Large enterprises in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare, professional services). Named customers include Accenture, Mars, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard.
- **Mission Statement**: To expand human capacity through superintelligence by building trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams for enterprise-wide transformation.

## Products & Services
- **WRITER Platform**: An end-to-end platform for building, deploying, and monitoring AI agents that are grounded in enterprise data and governed by IT controls. Includes an "AI Studio" for custom agent creation.
- **WRITER Agent**: A delegation-based agent that executes complex, multi-step workflows from natural language instructions (e.g., drafting reports, conducting research, generating compliant content).
- **Palmyra Family of LLMs**: WRITER’s own suite of purpose-built LLMs, designed for transparency, reliability, and control in regulated environments.
- **Security & Compliance Integrations**: Pre-built integrations with enterprise security, identity, and observability stacks (e.g., SSO, audit logs, role-based access controls) to meet compliance standards.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (total funding of $326M).
- **Key Metric**: Annual recurring revenue (ARR) estimated at $26M (source: LinkedIn company profile).
- **Notable Investors**: Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, Insight Partners, Balderton Capital, B Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, Citi Ventures, IBM Ventures.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of ~727 employees (+33.1% YoY); operates in 42 countries; LinkedIn followers grew +35.7% YoY to ~88k; expanding office footprint with hubs in San Francisco, New York, London, Chicago, and Austin.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Five-year track record of in-house LLM R&D**: Co-founders have been building AI for enterprise since 2013 (first company focused on machine translation). WRITER controls its own model stack, not just a wrapper on third-party APIs.
- **Enterprise-first DNA**: Platform is built from the ground up for governance, compliance, and IT integration — a key differentiator in regulated industries.
- **Purpose-built for agentic workflows**: Unlike generic chatbot platforms, WRITER focuses on autonomous, multi-step task execution with deep domain context.
- **Strong partner ecosystem**: Backed by a consortium of strategic investors including Salesforce, Adobe, Citi, and IBM, signaling deep enterprise channel potential.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agentic AI for the enterprise**: Moving beyond simple prompting to autonomous agents that can be delegated complex tasks.
- **Deepening IT and security integrations**: Making it easy for security and compliance teams to approve and deploy AI at scale.
- **Expanding AI research**: Continuing to invest in the Palmyra family of LLMs to maintain frontier capabilities.
- **Global expansion**: Growing presence across North America and Europe (offices in SF, NY, London, Chicago, Austin).

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid culture**: The company is built around a mix of in-office collaboration and remote work. Offices are in San Francisco, New York, and London (plus Chicago and Austin).
- **Ownership mindset**: All employees receive company stock options, plus a 401k plan with employer contributions.
- **Growth opportunities**: "Expect to quickly improve your skills and expand your responsibilities" — learning and development stipend and generous PTO are provided.
- **Cutting-edge technical challenges**: Teams build advanced AI technology from scratch, solving problems few other companies tackle.
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Employer-covered medical, dental, and vision plans; life insurance; FSA; competitive parental leave; family-friendly policies.
- **Strong values-driven culture**: Emphasizes active listening, high standards, long-term thinking, and diverse perspectives.
- **Active hiring**: Multiple open roles across engineering, product, sales, and customer success (see careers page).

## Sources
1. [writer.com/about](https://writer.com/company/about/)
2. [writer.com](https://writer.com/)
3. [writer.com/careers](https://writer.com/company/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getwriter)
5. [Ashby Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/writer)

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