About the role
We're looking for a design engineer who lives at the intersection of design and code. You'll work directly with the founding team to prototype, build, and polish the product experiences that make Watchdog feel fast, clear, and trustworthy.
Watchdog is building procurement intelligence: we help companies understand spend, spot opportunities, and make better purchasing decisions. That means data-dense surfaces, sharp information hierarchy, and a high bar for craft.
What you'll do
- Own and scale the user-facing experience of our product, turning powerful capabilities into intuitive, magical interfaces.
- Build production-quality UI components and interactions for dashboards, workflows, and data-heavy views
- Rapidly prototype new concepts to validate ideas with the team (and, when relevant, with customers) before full implementation
- Bridge design and engineering: translate intent into shipped UI, and push designs forward through technical innovation
- Own UI quality across the product: visual polish, motion, accessibility, performance, and consistency
- Collaborate closely with engineers to define constraints early and ship quickly without sacrificing craft
- Contribute to (and evolve) our component library and design system so we can ship faster as we grow
You might be a fit if
- You're equally comfortable in Figma and your code editor
- You have strong front-end engineering skills (TypeScript, React, modern CSS, motion/animation)
- You care about details and can explain why something feels “off” — and fix it
- You've shipped polished products and know what it takes to get from 90% to 100%
- You move fast: you can prototype in hours, then iterate into durable components
- You think in systems and build reusable UI that stays maintainable under real product pressure
- You're excited about using AI to improve workflows — especially where trust, clarity, and explainability matter
Nice to have
- Portfolio demonstrating sophisticated interactions and thoughtful user affordances
- Experience building B2B SaaS with complex workflows and data-heavy UIs (tables, filtering, drilldowns)
- Familiarity with procurement, finance, or enterprise software constraints
- Experience with design systems in production (tokens, component APIs, documentation)
- Comfort partnering directly with users/customer-facing teams to turn feedback into product improvements