We're hiring a design engineer to own every pixel of Bond's product experience — from interaction design and motion to component architecture and performance. You'll be the person who makes Bond not just work, but feel magical. You'll work directly with the founders and own the entire frontend from day one.

Why Bond?

At Bond, we are building the world's first AI Chief of Staff. After speaking with over 2,000 executives, we identified a universal pain point: information fragmentation and overload. Even the best teams spend countless hours chasing updates, untangling loose threads, and sitting in status meetings, only to find the data they need is buried in a silo.

We're building a system that understands what's happening across a company and tells leaders what truly deserves their time. You don't just save a few hours. You change how companies operate. This is a new layer of infrastructure. Whoever solves this becomes the operating system for modern organizations. This is a generational engineering problem: massive data ingestion, state modeling, prioritization logic, real-time inference, and agentic action loops.

And nobody has cracked it.

Backed by Y Combinator, Fellows Fund, Goodwater Capital, and E14, we are building the intelligence layer that connects these dots automatically. We have raised our seed round and are now expanding our engineering team.

What You'll Do

Own the product surface end-to-end: Bond's frontend is a Next.js 15 app with React 19, Tailwind v4, Framer Motion, and a hand-built real-time layer. You won't just build components — you'll design them, animate them, and obsess over how they feel at every screen size. From the daily briefing executives open at 7am to the AI chat they use in a taxi, you own how Bond looks, moves, and responds.

Design and build the AI chat experience: BondBot is a conversational AI assistant that streams responses token-by-token, displays real-time tool activity as it searches across platforms, supports voice input with waveform visualization, and handles context attachments, shortcuts, and conversation history. This is a full chat product embedded inside the product — and you'll make it feel as polished as the best consumer messaging apps.

Craft a real-time interface that stays in sync: Bond runs on Server-Sent Events with optimistic updates and sync-on-focus — a hand-rolled reactive system that keeps todos, briefings, and updates alive across tabs and sessions. You'll own this layer: making new items animate in smoothly, handling edge cases gracefully, and ensuring the UI never lies about the state of the world.

Build interaction design that executives love: Our users are busy leaders. Every interaction needs to respect their time. You'll design and implement drag-and-drop todo triage (Eisenhower matrix, GTD quadrants), inline editing that doesn't shift layout, completion animations with particle effects and haptic-weight motion, and briefing views that make dense information scannable and beautiful.

Shape the design system: You'll evolve our component library (shadcn/ui + Radix primitives + custom components) into a cohesive design system. You'll define the motion language, the spacing rhythm, the color semantics, and the interaction patterns that make Bond feel like one product — not a collection of pages.

Push the boundaries of what a webapp can feel like: Voice recording with real-time waveform rendering. Streaming markdown with inline citations. Canvas-based visualizations. Spring-animated micro-interactions. You'll bring the craft and ambition of native app design to the browser — and know when to push the platform versus when to ship.

Our Stack

We trust you can pick up new tools quickly, but here is what we are building with today:

• Framework: Next.js 15, React 19, TypeScript 5.9

• Styling: Tailwind CSS v4, CSS custom properties, shadcn/ui (Radix)

• Animation: Framer Motion 12, Web Audio API, Canvas API

• State: Zustand 5, React Server Components, Server Actions

• Real-time: SSE, Vercel AI SDK (streaming), optimistic updates

• DX: Turborepo, PNPM, Drizzle ORM, auto-generated SDK

• Infra: Docker, AWS, GitHub Actions, Sentry, PostHog

Who You Are

3+ years of frontend engineering with a strong design sensibility, or a proven history of "high slope" engineering (you ship side projects that make people ask "who designed this?" and the answer is you).

Designer who codes, engineer who designs: You think in both Figma and code. You don't wait for mockups — you prototype in the browser, iterate on feel, and know that the spacing between a label and its input matters as much as the API that powers it. You have strong opinions about typography, color, and whitespace.

Motion and interaction craftsperson: You understand easing curves, spring physics, and why a 200ms fade feels different from a 200ms spring. You've built micro-interactions that make users smile — completion animations, skeleton states, gesture responses — and you know when animation serves the experience versus when it gets in the way.

React and Next.js expert: You are deeply fluent in the modern React ecosystem — Server Components, Server Actions, streaming, Suspense, concurrent features. You understand the performance implications of client vs. server boundaries and make deliberate choices about where state lives.

Real-time UI builder: You've built interfaces that update live — whether through SSE, WebSockets, or polling. You understand optimistic updates, conflict resolution, and the subtle art of making a UI feel instant without lying to the user.

Performance-obsessed: You care about Core Web Vitals, bundle size, and render performance. You've profiled React re-renders, split bundles strategically, and know the difference between "looks fast" and "is fast." You treat 60fps as a floor, not a ceiling.

Pragmatic & low ego: You step up in incidents to unblock teammates. You believe the best idea wins, not the loudest voice. You can ship a scrappy v1 on Monday and refine it into something beautiful by Friday.

Product mindset: You don't build UI — you build experiences. You think about the executive opening Bond at 7am on their phone, the manager triaging todos between meetings, the founder scanning updates before a board meeting. You design for the moment, not the wireframe.

Startup ready: You are autonomous, ownership-driven, and able to navigate ambiguity. You don't need a design system handed to you — you build one. You don't wait for specs — you ship, measure, and iterate.

Global communicator: You are proactive and reliable, capable of coordinating effectively between our Ghent and our San Francisco presence.

Driven: You are ready to make this your life's work.

If you're looking for work-life balance, predictable routines, or a well-defined roadmap… this isn't your place. If you want to build something that outlives you, welcome home :)

The Bond Offer

Ghent Roots, Silicon Valley Access: You will work out of the Wintercircus in the beautiful city center of Ghent. We regularly travel to San Francisco to work with our Co-Founder & CEO, investors, clients and partners. You are expected to join us. This is your ticket to the global tech ecosystem.

Competitive Pay: $100k – 140k / year. We aim to pay top-tier rates for the Belgian market.

Ownership: 0.5% – 1% Equity. You are a builder, and you should own what you build.