Staff Designer, Rapid Prototyping

Job description

Mozilla is hiring a Staff Designer for Rapid Prototyping on a remote Canada team. The role combines product design, UX engineering, front-end implementation, and rapid prototyping for privacy-respecting products and AI-enabled experiences. The designer will translate ambiguous concepts into usable workflows and prototypes, work directly in application code, contribute reusable interaction and component patterns, and collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, and other stakeholders. The posting emphasizes accessibility, information architecture, usability, product judgment, modern JavaScript or TypeScript, component-based frameworks, and experience with AI product interfaces. It also calls for senior-level technical and product leadership, strong communication, and examples of shipped or prototyped work. The position is explicitly full-time and remote in Canada. The day-to-day focus includes Canada : $155,000 - $175,000 CAD Fully remote work & schedule flexibility Monthly remote work stipend Annual professional development stipend These activities connect the role to the wider team’s delivery goals and require clear coordination with the relevant technical, product, operations, design, or creative partners identified in the posting. The source also highlights qualifications including 10+ years of relevant experience in design engineering, front-end engineering, UX engineering, product design with strong technical implementation experience, or Strong front-end engineering skills, including experience with modern JavaScript or TypeScript, component-based frameworks, and building prototypes or production features

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in design engineering, front-end engineering, UX engineering, product design with strong technical implementation experience, or a closely related role, with demonstrated leadership and impact beyond individual deliverables.
• Strong front-end engineering skills, including experience with modern JavaScript or TypeScript, component-based frameworks, and building prototypes or production features directly in an application codebase.
• Strong product and interaction design judgment, including usability, accessibility, information architecture, workflow design, and product polish.
• Experience designing, prototyping, or building AI-enabled product experiences, such as chat, search, research tools, agents, automation, knowledge interfaces, or workflow tools where user trust, context, output quality, and human oversight are central to the experience.
• Experience translating ambiguous product concepts into usable workflows, prototypes, and shipped product experiences, with the judgment to balance speed, quality, maintainability, learning, and product risk.
• Experience providing technical or product leadership through mentoring, cross-functional coordination, reusable patterns, project ownership, or influence beyond individual deliverables.
• Practical awareness of AI, privacy, security, and regulatory considerations that may affect product experience, including transparency, user control, permissions, data handling, and trust; familiarity with frameworks such as the EU AI Act, Cyber Resilience Act, HIPAA, or comparable responsible AI, privacy, and security requirements.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including experience working closely with product managers, designers, engineers, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Portfolio, case studies, shipped work, or examples demonstrating design-to-code execution, interactive prototypes, or product experience improvements.
• Experience with enterprise software, developer tools, productivity tools, collaboration tools, self-hosted software, or other technical user workflows.
• Experience contributing to design systems, component libraries, reusable front-end architecture, or shared product interaction patterns.
• Familiarity with user research, usability testing, product discovery, feature instrumentation, or rapid experimentation methods.