UX Engineer / Design Technologist

Job Title: UX Engineer / Design Technologist

Work Location:  Tallinn, Estonia

Start Date: ASAP

Foam, a division of Whalar Group, is a cutting-edge SaaS platform designed to empower talent representatives to manage their day-to-day workflow and grow their businesses. Foam offers premium tools and features to agencies, enabling them to streamline their operations, enhance collaboration, win more business, and drive exceptional results for their clients.

We are a curious, diverse team of 300 individuals around the world who are passionate about the Creator Economy. Our proximity, understanding, and trust of creators evolved into a first-of-its-kind creator ecosystem. Under Whalar Group, there are six companies: Whalar, a global creator agency; Sixteenth, a full-service global, 360° creator and talent management company; Foam, a suite of AI tools, templates, and services; Moby Ventures, a creator-centric venture studio; Umi Games, a groundbreaking gaming studio; and The Lighthouse, an IRL campus for creators and their teams.

About the role:

We are seeking a UX Engineer / Design Technologist to join our dynamic product development team. In this high-impact role, you’ll have the unique opportunity to shape the future of the rapidly growing, multi-billion-dollar creator industry. Whalar is a unique player in this space, fostering an in-house product development team of over 60 professionals dedicated to defining the future of creator tools—the operating system for creators. You will be part of our design team reporting to the Director of Design.

This position is to be based in Estonia.

Here’s what you’ll do day to day:

• Design System Leadership: Develop, maintain, and evolve our design system, ensuring consistency, scalability, and adherence to best practices in usability and accessibility.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering teams to ensure seamless implementation of designs, translating design specifications into functional components.Prototyping & Validation: Design and create interactive prototypes to validate design concepts, leveraging tools like Figma, V0, Replit, Cursor etc to accelerate iteration.
• Design Pattern Development: Help frame and plan new design patterns required by the product, ensuring they align with both industry and platform standards.
• Specification and Guidelines Writing: Write clear specifications for new features and components, and define guidelines for their usage to ensure consistency across the product.
• Agile Development Support: Support the development team in an agile environment, ensuring the fastest possible implementation of designs without compromising on quality. 
• Quality Assurance: Conduct regular reviews and audits of the design system, implementing improvements based on user feedback and evolving design practices.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Experience: 6+ years of experience in product design with a strong portfolio showcasing your ability to create user-centric digital experiences
• Technical Proficiency: Deep familiarity with modern design-to-code workflows. Solid understanding of front-end technologies and capable of collaborating in environments that use Tailwind CSS and component libraries like shadcn/ui. Bonus if you’ve used AI-powered dev environments like Cursor or are excited about integrating design with code at speed and scale.
• Tools: Experience with design documentation tools and version control systems.
• Collaboration: Experience of working within fast-paced, ever-changing, agile development teams. Excellent communication and collaboration skills are essential in our fully remote team. The ability to take in and give constructive feedback is a must.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills with a talent for turning complex problems into simple, elegant solutions.
• Proactive mindset: Ability to make things happen with limited direction
• Communication: Strong communication skills in English 

The extra mile:

• Industry knowledge and deep understanding of the influencer/creator ecosystem and the unique players and challenges in this field
• Experience in developing B2B SaaS platforms
• Familiarity with OKRs
• Contributions to open-source design systems or active participation in design and development communities.

Our values:

At Whalar Group, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) isn't just a statement, it's our collective strength. Our people are our superpower. A diverse team and inclusive leadership have shaped Whalar Group since our inception in 2016, fueling a constant evolution of growth. We champion a culture of respect and empathy, fostering a sense of belonging that transcends demographics. We hire individuals of all backgrounds and empower them to thrive, challenge stereotypes, and actively break societal barriers. Learn more. 

Our benefits and perks:

Whalar Group provides flexible benefits and collaborative work environments and experiences so employees can work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs.

Estonia Benefits

• 25 days of PTO + Sick days + Winter break
• Monthly phone/internet reimbursement
• Professional development stipend
• New joiner Home office allowance 
• 16 weeks of paid maternity/paternity leave
• Volunteer days
• Social programs

Whalar Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Equal opportunity extends to all aspects of the employment relationship, including hiring, promotions, training, working conditions, compensation, and benefits.