Lead Design Engineer

At Braze, we have found our people. We’re a genuinely approachable, exceptionally kind, and intensely passionate crew. We seek to ignite that passion by setting high standards, championing teamwork, and creating work-life harmony as we collectively navigate rapid growth on a global scale while striving for greater equity and opportunity – inside and outside our organization. To flourish here, you must be prepared to set a high bar for yourself and those around you. There is always a way to contribute: Acting with autonomy, having accountability and being open to new perspectives are essential to our continued success. Our deep curiosity to learn and our eagerness to share diverse passions with others gives us balance and injects a one-of-a-kind vibrancy into our culture. If you are driven to solve exhilarating challenges and have a bias toward action in the face of change, you will be empowered to make a real impact here, with a sharp and passionate team at your back. If Braze sounds like a place where you can thrive, we can’t wait to meet you. WHAT YOU'LL DO We're seeking a Lead Design Engineer to own and evolve Braze's design system and shared UX foundations. This is a senior individual contributor role operating at the intersection of design and code. In close partnership with Engineering, you'll shape the technical direction of our shared UI foundations, ensuring they're robust, scalable, accessible, and implementation-ready across product teams. You'll contribute hands-on while driving adoption, mentoring designers, and raising the bar for system-level design craft, accessibility, and implementation quality across the UX organization. You'll also help future-proof our design system by thinking about it not only as a resource for human collaborators, but as structured context for automated and AI-assisted workflows. This means designing its architecture, naming conventions, and documentation so that tooling, CLI interfaces, and AI agents can consume it reliably and without ambiguity. Responsibilities: Own the technical and design direction of Braze's design system in partnership with Engineering, keeping it coherent, scalable, and implementation-ready across product teams Define and uphold system-level design craft: evaluate, defend, and evolve what good looks like across interaction patterns, component behavior, and shared UX foundations Contribute hands-on to component architecture, interaction patterns, token architecture, and the design-to-code pipeline, including Figma variables and sync workflows Partner with frontend engineers on CSS architecture, semantic HTML, and WCAG compliance to raise the bar for accessibility and implementation quality across the organization Mentor designers in accessibility, responsive systems, and implementation-aware design thinking Build automation and tooling that improves system compliance, efficiency, and programmatic access, including architecture and documentation designed to be consumed by AI-assisted workflows Drive adoption across product teams through contribution models, governance workflows, and documentation, without relying on formal authority Reduce fragmentation, track system health and accessibility metrics, and own versioning and deprecation communication to consuming teams WHO YOU ARE 5+ years in design systems, design engineering, or highly technical product design within complex SaaS environments Proven track record building, scaling, or modernizing a design system in close partnership with Engineering Strong design craft judgment at the system level: you can define, evaluate, and defend what good looks like across interaction patterns, component behavior, and shared UX foundations Fluent in component architecture, semantic HTML, modern CSS, accessibility (WCAG), and scalable UI patterns Hands-on experience with Figma variables, design tokens (Tokens Studio, Style Dictionary, or equivalent), and token-to-code pipeline workflows Experience leadi ... (truncated, view full listing at source)