Design Engineer, Growth & Marketing

About the role

Perplexity seeks a Design Engineer to transform perplexity.com into a powerful growth platform. You will collaborate with brand, marketing, and content teams to deliver product launch pages, campaign landing pages, and the essential components that enable rapid development without compromising quality. This is a hands-on position for someone with strong design sensibility, meticulous attention to detail, and the ability to quickly translate concepts into polished, production-ready web pages.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Develop and launch product pages for offerings like Comet, Computer, Deep Research, Search, and Hub, managing the process from design handoff to live deployment.
• Collaborate with brand designers to create engaging, interactive website experiences that enhance user interaction.
• Maintain and expand the brand design system and component library, ensuring consistency between design mockups and production code.
• Work with paid ads and growth teams to conduct A/B tests on landing pages, pop-ups, and upsell modules, then analyze results and refine designs.
• Migrate existing Framer content to Sanity, design user-friendly schemas for non-technical users, and help implement new content types such as changelogs, customer stories, and academy pages.
• Independently resolve design challenges and develop solutions when dedicated design resources are limited.
• Improve operational tools and workflows for CMS, internationalization, SEO, experimentation, and internal marketing self-service.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience as a front-end or design engineer, preferably within a marketing or growth team.
• A portfolio showcasing previous work on marketing websites and design projects.
• Proficient in React, CSS, and current web frameworks.
• Comprehensive understanding of responsive design and design-to-code processes, staying current with platform capabilities.
• Experience maintaining a reusable component library and ensuring precise design implementation in code.
• A keen eye for design quality, distinguishing between near-perfect and truly correct execution.
• Demonstrates exceptional attention to detail, noticing minor visual inconsistencies or typographical errors without prompting.
• Excellent communication skills and a history of successful collaboration in cross-functional teams, including the ability to justify decisions and explain technical trade-offs.
• Eagerness to thrive in a fast-paced environment, continuously learn, and refine your skills.

Nice to have

• Experience conducting A/B tests and interpreting experimental results in a growth context.
• Familiarity with SEO principles, structured data, and localization workflows.
• Experience with web animations (GSAP, Motion, Web Animations API), 3D libraries, or interactive storytelling.
• Experience using a headless CMS such as Sanity or Contentful.
• Experience building internal tools or AI-assisted workflows that improved marketing or design team efficiency.

Skills & tools

• React
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• Sanity
• Figma
• CSS

Practical notes

• This is a full-time position.