Engineer, Runway
Member of Design Staff
$190-235k
AI-powered creativity tools
Open for applications
AI-powered creativity tools
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$190-235k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To ensure that anyone anywhere can tell their stories.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for someone who loves the intersection of design and front-end development and is passionate about creating high-quality, user-centered products. If you’re ready to help shape the future of our creative workflows using AI, we’d love to hear from you!
- 3+ Years of Experience: Proven experience working with cross-functional teams in a highly collaborative and iterative development environment
- Strong React Expertise: Advanced knowledge of React.js, JavaScript/Typescript and CSS. Familiarity with state management systems like Redux is a plus
- UX & Design Mastery: A deep understanding of the UX design process and strategy. You have a keen eye for detail, a passion for crafting delightful user experiences, and experience working with tools like Figma for prototyping and design
- Creative & Analytical Thinker: You are a problem solver who considers the user’s perspective in every decision, crafting elegant solutions that enhance the user journey
- Hands-on Front End Developer: You thrive on implementing your own designs and confidently bring Figma mockups to life. You're passionate about micro-interactions, performance, and creating UIs that are both functional and captivating
- Collaboration & Communication: Strong communication skills and a passion for collaborating with diverse teams. You’re able to provide clear and constructive feedback in both code reviews and design critiques
- What we value
- Design & Development Enthusiasm: A passion for both the aesthetic and technical aspects of design, with a deep commitment to creating vibrant, top-notch user interfaces
- Curiosity & Adaptability: A naturally inquisitive nature and eagerness to learn, keeping pace with emerging front-end technologies and constantly seeking ways to enhance your skills and our product
- Self-Driven Problem Solver: Comfort in independent problem-solving and taking full ownership of solutions from conception to completion
What the job involves
- We are seeking a talented design-focused Frontend Engineer to help us craft exceptional user interfaces and push the boundaries of our AI-driven products
- You will play a critical role in designing and implementing user experiences that are both functional and visually stunning, working closely with cross-functional teams including designers, engineers, and product managers
- Design & Development Process: You will be involved in the design and development process throughout the product development lifecycle—from gathering requirements to ideating, designing, and implementing highly interactive and responsive UI components
- Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with designers and product managers to ensure that design concepts are executed flawlessly. You will help bring design implementations to life, ensuring high-quality implementations that meet both technical and user-centric requirements
- Drive UX & UI Excellence: Focus on delivering an outstanding user experience by designing intuitive and polished interfaces. You will continuously iterate on features to enhance performance, accessibility, and usability based on user feedback and data-driven insights
- Enhance Design Systems: Contribute to and expand design systems in collaboration with designers, ensuring that UI components are scalable, reusable, and consistent across the platform
- Mentorship & Advocacy: Help elevate the design culture within the organization by mentoring product design team members through technical challenges and advocating for design excellence across all product areas
- Proactive Feature Development: Craft and iterate on new and existing product features from concept to code, collaborating closely with teams to align on product vision, ensuring each feature drives user engagement and conversion
- Stay Current with Emerging Technologies: Keep a pulse on new technologies and best practices in front-end development and UX design, discovering hidden opportunities to innovate within our environment
Our take
Runway is revolutionizing content creation and video editing with machine learning, harnessing the expansive capabilities of web-based tools. At the forefront of this transformation, the startup offers a suite of AI-powered editing tools tailored for designers, artists, and creators, setting itself apart in an industry dominated by enterprise-focused software solutions.
The company has rapidly gained recognition among some of the world's largest brands, including R/GA, New Balance, Google, and IBM, by appealing directly to creative professionals. This approach has not only solidified Runway's position in the market but also facilitated its integration into the design curricula of esteemed institutions such as NYU, RISD< and MIT.
In a testament to its growing influence and success, Runway achieved unicorn status in 2023 following a landmark $100M funding round, which valued the company at $1.5BThis milestone not only reflects investor confidence but also positions Runway to expand its innovative tools and further democratize access to advanced video editing capabilities globally.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
112% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2023
$141m
SERIES C
Dec 2022
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $238.5m
Company benefits
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage: We cover 100% of medical, dental and vision for our US employees AND their dependents. Based on the plans selected, we have complimentary mental health benefits and a free One Medical membership
- Unlimited days of PTO: We have unlimited PTO with a minimum of 15 days a year. We also have a paid sabbatical program after employees have been with Runway for 3 years and again after 5 years. And of course, we can't forget about Summer Fridays
- 401k Matching, 3% matching: Plan for the future! We provide a 3% 401K match for our US based employees
- Remote $250 stipend: All of our employees outside of commuting distance to the office, can expense up to $250 per month on co-working spaces, lunch or groceries, and internet connection
- Donations supporting our community: Beyond our employees, we have a commitment to our communities. Every quarter, Runway employees choose an organization for the company to support through a donation
- Custom setup, tech setup stipend: In addition to the choice of laptop, all employees get a stipend to customize their tech set up as they want
- Parental leave for all parents: We offer 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave plus a gradual return to work plan. This coverage is for all parents, regardless of how a child is brought into the family
- L&D $600 stipend: We’re investing in our employees’ long term growth by giving every employee $600 per year to spend on their personal or professional development. That means conferences, courses, and books, oh my!
- Wellness $600 stipend: We set ambitious goals and work hard to achieve them, so we believe it’s important to invest in employees’ mental and physical health. The $600 annual wellness stipend can be used for anything from therapy sessions to gym memberships
Company values
- Invent the future: We believe that the best way to predict the future is to invent it. Optimize for the long-term
- Relentless optimism: Building impossible things is hard. We are optimistic about a future where moving creativity forward is not only possible, but inevitable
- Try fast, learn fast: Our success will depend on how fast we learn. Trial and error. Rinse and repeat. Stay humble and learn something every day
- Solve with care: Our product is a mirror of our values
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
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Leadership
Anastasis Germanidis
(CTO)Trained as a Backend Engineer, they have held roles at Zocdoc, Chartbeat, and Quantcast as well as working as a Machine Learning Researcher in Computer Vision for IBM.
Previously co-founded Deenty, an online booking platform for dentist appointments.
Cristóbal Valenzuela
(CEO)Worked as a Researcher at New York University from 2018 to 2019. Also spent time as a Professor at the UAI School of Design.
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