Is the Founding Design Engineer role remote?

No — this is an on-site role in Manhattan.

What's the salary range?

Probook lists $180,000–$230,000 for this role.

How much experience is required?

4–6 years of relevant experience for this Founding Design Engineer role.

Where is the role based?

Probook is hiring for this position in Manhattan.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Claude Code, Cursor, Figma, Frontend, UI/UX.

What seniority level is this role?

Probook targets mid-level candidates for this position.

Is this full-time or contract?

Full-time for this Founding Design Engineer role at Probook.

Founding Design Engineer at Probook

Joblaze summary

The Founding Design Engineer at Probook is responsible for shaping the user interface and experience across the company's web app, mobile platform, and Chrome extension, directly implementing frontend changes. This role requires a strong background in product design, particularly in B2B or operations-heavy environments, with a proven ability to merge code into production. Ideal candidates will have 4-6 years of experience, including time at startups, and a portfolio showcasing their work. Probook's early-stage environment offers a chance to establish design standards from the ground up.

Joblaze insights

Listed 2 days ago — first seen on Joblaze September 27, 2026. Last confirmed on Probook's careers page September 29, 2026.
This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Probook: Manhattan.
Salary band is in line with the typical range for Design roles (median ~$170,000).
Starts above 93% of 30 comparable mid design roles in United States that list Figma we track (median $143,000 across 22 companies).
Figma appears in 53.3% of 107 comparable mid design roles in United States; UI/UX appears in 1.9% of 107 comparable mid design roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Founding Design Engineer role remote?: No — this is an on-site role in Manhattan.
What's the salary range?: Probook lists $180,000–$230,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?: 4–6 years of relevant experience for this Founding Design Engineer role.
Where is the role based?: Probook is hiring for this position in Manhattan.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Claude Code, Cursor, Figma, Frontend, UI/UX.
What seniority level is this role?: Probook targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Founding Design Engineer role at Probook.

From the original posting

The role

You are our first designer. You own how Probook looks, feels, and works across the web app, mobile, and Chrome extension, and you ship the frontend yourself.

That second part is not a stretch goal. Most of what you design, you will build and merge. If your process ends at a Figma handoff, this is not the role.

The software this industry runs on looks like it was designed in 2008. For a lot of our operators, Probook is the best-designed product they use at work. You set that bar from here.

What you'll do

Own UI/UX quality across all three surfaces, end to end
Ship production frontend changes yourself — design through merge
Establish Probook's visual and interaction language from scratch
Sit in on customer calls, watch operators work, and turn what you see into things that ship
Partner with engineers from spec to ship, and with the founders on product direction
Use Claude Code, Cursor, and similar to go from problem to multiple working flows in a day

What we're looking for

Required:

4–6 years of product design experience, ideally 2+ years at startups
A track record of merging your own frontend code to production. We will ask for specifics and look at the work.
B2B or ops-heavy product background.
Strong portfolio of shipped product work
Turnaround in hours, not weeks, without dropping quality

What separates the top of the pool:

Taste you can't switch off - you see the typographic inconsistency and you fix it
You can explain why a decision is right, not just show the artifact
You explore the problem properly before converging, then converge fast
You pick the important flow over the interesting one without being told
You get dangerous on incomplete context quickly
You're getting better at this on your own time

Compensation

$180K–$230K base, meaningful early-stage equity
Medical, dental, vision
$500/month Ramp card, $25 nightly dinner credit
In-office five days a week in Manhattan

Standard company text repeated across Probook's postings is omitted here.

Founding Design Engineer

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