Staff / Principal

Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next.

As a Staff Design Engineer at Mixpanel, you'll sit within the design organization and lead the transformation of our design system from a component library into the infrastructure that powers how we design, build, and ship in an AI-native world. You'll encode our craft, standards, and vision directly into the systems, tools, and workflows that every designer, engineer, and AI agent in our org builds on. This isn't a maintenance or systems stewardship role. It's a transformative one.

• Build the infrastructure for an AI-native design practice: translate Mixpanel's design standards, principles, and taste into systems that live in the code. Build a token system, component library, documentation, and guidelines that AI agents, AI coding tools, and AI prototyping workflows can reliably build on.
• Shape how Mixpanel looks and behaves in an AI-native world: sit within the product design team and collaborate on reimagining Mixpanel for a world where interfaces are conversational, agentic, and adaptive.
• Own the bridge between design and code: build systems that connect design to code and keep the two in sync. Work directly in the codebase, ship PRs that improve the product.
• Stand up prototyping and AI tooling infrastructure: build workflows, tools, and infrastructure that let designers and PMs prototype at high fidelity, with working code, real components, and interactive states, without waiting on engineering.
• Set and model the craft bar: establish what great looks like through the quality of what you ship. Enable designers to work more code-adjacent and engineers to build with better components.

• Proficiency in modern front-end frameworks: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Next.js
• Experience with design systems. Ideally you've built or overhauled one at scale
• Strong design sensibility: you care about craft, consistency, interaction quality, and taste
• Fluency in AI-assisted workflows: canvas-to-code, code-to-canvas, AI prototyping tools, MCP integrations, and what's emerging in this space
• Experience working with tools like Figma, Storybook, VSCode, Chromatic, and GitHub
• A track record of working across design and engineering: you've done both, and you know how to collaborate across both
• Comfortable operating with high autonomy: you set direction, influence standards, and manage complex projects without a lot of hand-holding
• 8+ years in design engineering, UX engineering, design technology, or a related hybrid role

• Experience designing or building data visualizations
• Background in brand and/or product design
• Experience with accessibility: WCAG 2.2, ARIA patterns, semantic HTML, APCA, accessible data viz
• Experience working in a product analytics or developer-focused product environment

The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level. In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations.

Mixpanel Compensation Range: $236,000—$300,000 USD

• Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
• Mental Wellness Benefit
• Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Volunteer Time Off
• Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break