Web Designer

Hex Hex · Data AI · United States · Design

Lead the design and implementation of Hex's web surfaces, including website and documentation, using React/Next.js and CSS. Owns the end-to-end experience from concept to shipped UI, establishing visual quality and patterns. Collaborates with marketing and design, drives the web roadmap, and supports product illustrations and motion. Over time, will hire, manage, and mentor a team. Requires 8+ years of experience in web/visual/UI design with a strong portfolio, fluency in front-end technologies, and a focus on implementation details and visual consistency.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the design and experience for all of Hex’s web surfaces, including our website, documentation site, and any future experience or surface
  2. Design and implement high-quality, production-ready front-end code (React/Next.js, CSS), owning experiences from concept through shipped UI
  3. Own launch assets alongside marketing, ensuring every major product moment is visually clear, compelling, and on-brand
  4. Establish and maintain visual quality, patterns, and consistency across all web experiences
  5. Drive the long-term web roadmap, identifying opportunities for performance, clarity, storytelling, and experimentation

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in web/visual/UI design
  • Portfolio demonstrating world-class craft, storytelling, and systems thinking
  • Strong across UX, layout, visual design, and typography
  • Experience designing marketing surfaces for technical, B2B, or product-led companies
  • Fluent in front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, React/Next.js)
  • Ability to ship production-quality code
  • Sharp eye for visual consistency, motion, micro-interaction quality, and illustration
  • Ability to operate autonomously with a bias toward velocity
  • Ability to establish processes, patterns, and design rituals for a growing team
  • Clear communication of design decisions
  • Experience with high-level creative direction and hands-on execution
  • Experience with campaign work, long-term system building, and ongoing iteration of a high-traffic website

Nice to have

  • Support product illustrations and light motion
  • Over time, hire, manage, and mentor a team of engineers and designers
  • Influence processes, standards, and creative culture of the Design team

What the JD emphasized

  • production-ready front-end code
  • shipped UI
  • high-quality implementation
  • world-class craft
  • fluent in front-end technologies
  • ship production-quality code
  • bias toward velocity
  • hands-on execution