Staff Design Engineer, Clerk Chat
Business messaging platform
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Business messaging platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To redefine telecommunication with AI and making every business conversational.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 5 years of tech/startup or digital product agency experience, or equivalent
- Strong proficiency in Figma and modern design tools
- Extraordinary visual design skills with strong understanding of UX/UI principles, particularly for data-heavy interfaces and analytics platforms
- Front-end development skills in semantic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (React preferred) - ability to collaborate closely with engineers and understand implementation constraints
- Experience designing complex dashboards, monitoring tools, or analytics interfaces
- Strong organizational skills and love for documentation
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, bridging the gap between design and engineering
- Comfort working in a technical environment with APIs, webhooks, and developer-focused products
Desirable
- Experience with conversational UI/chat interface design
- Understanding of AI/ML products and their unique UX challenges
- Background in real-time data visualization and monitoring systems
- Experience maintaining design systems or reusable component libraries
- Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or API-driven architectures
- Experience at growth-stage startups (Series A/B)
What the job involves
- Design and evolve analytics and monitoring interfaces for AI agent performance tracking, execution monitoring, and real-time alerting systems and conversational interface
- Create intuitive conversational experiences that integrate analytics visualizations, inspired by modern chat interfaces like Perplexity
- Work directly with the CTO and engineering team to develop UI/UX for complex multi-channel communication management (SMS, voice, email)
- Champion user experience and accessibility across our platform, maintaining a high quality bar for both technical and non-technical users
- Contribute to the design and development of reusable component patterns for agent configuration, dashboard visualization, and real-time data displays
- Collaborate with engineers on elegant and consistent component APIs using TypeScript/React, with focus on developer experience
- Advocate for users by identifying areas of improvement in our analytics interfaces, agent monitoring dashboards, and communication workflows
- Participate in day-to-day team rituals like design crit, story creation, weekly stand-ups, and sprint planning
- Help us hire more amazing people to grow the team and bring diverse perspectives to our design process
- Document design patterns, guidelines, and best practices for our growing product surface area
- What You Ne
Our take
The advent of artificial intelligence has presented all sorts of opportunities for speeding up and simplifying business communications. Capitalizing on this, Clerk Chat is a conversational messaging platform that uses AI agents to support sales and marketing teams to elevate how they communicate with customers.
Working with SMS, WhatsApp and RCS messaging, the platform enables teams to tailor messaging at scale, enact human-like conversations faster and hence supercharge their operations. The company is working with thousands of customers, who collectively send millions of messages per day.
With such utility, it is no surprise that Clerk Chat has attracted the attention of investors. The company has raised promising seed funds that it will use to improve its messaging capabilities and strengthen relationships with telecom providers.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2024
$7m
SEED
Jan 2024
$0.7m
SEED
Total funding: $7.7m
Company benefits
- Platinum medical benefits from Tier1 carriers (100% of premiums covered by the company for you and one dependent)
- Tier1 dental and vision care for you and one dependent
- FSA - Flexible Spending Account with match
- Dependent Care Spending Account with match
- 401k with 4% match
- Unlimited vacation days and PTO!
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alexander Haque
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Partner Engagement Manager at Netflix, a Partnerships Manager at Samsung Next, COO at LumièreVR and CEO at Retinad.
Igor Boshoer
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Senior Engineering Manager at DocuSign, an Infrastructure Lead at Funding Circle US and an Organizer at Filmologic. Also co-founded Linc.
Will Chertoff
(Co-Founder)Previously a Senior DevOps Engineer at Jyve Corporation, a Senior DevOps Engineer at Funding Circle US and a Senior Software Engineer at Health Advocacy Partners.
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