Staff Design Engineer

Please note: This role is in-office in San Francisco at our headquarters working with the entire company five days per week. We are not open to remote candidates.About UsCampfire builds modern ERP software for finance teams — bringing accounting, close, and reporting workflows into one fast, intuitive system. We're a small, senior team obsessed with craft, speed, and making complex financial software feel simple to use.About The Role🌟We're looking for a Staff Design Engineer to help shape the core experience of Campfire's ERP platform. You'll take on our thorniest, highest-leverage design problems — the ones that touch multiple teams, span complex workflows, and require deep systems thinking. This is a senior individual-contributor role: you'll set design direction, raise the bar for craft across the team, and partner directly with engineering and product leadership to ship work that materially changes how finance teams operate.You'll have significant ownership over ambiguous, cross-cutting problems (think: reimagining the general ledger experience, or designing a coherent system for how data flows between modules) rather than a single feature area.💼 We Need Someone WhoOwn end-to-end design for complex, ambiguous problem spaces spanning multiple product areas — from framing the problem to shipping and iterating post-launchPartner with product and engineering leads as a peer, shaping roadmap and strategy, not just executing against a specDesign for dense, data-heavy workflows (tables, ledgers, reconciliation, reporting) in a way that stays clear and fast to useStrengthen and evolve Campfire's design system and interaction patterns so the product feels coherent as it growsMentor other designers, give sharp critique, and raise the craft bar across the teamTalk directly to customers — finance and accounting teams — to ground design decisions in how they actually workDrive design reviews and help the team make faster, better-informed decisions👥 Ideal Candidate8+ years of product design experience, with a track record of owning complex, high-impact product areas end to endExperience designing for data-dense, workflow-heavy software (fintech, ERP, dev tools, B2B SaaS, or similar) is a strong plusStrong systems thinking — you can zoom out to see how a feature fits the broader product, and zoom in on pixel-level detailsA portfolio that shows range: 0-to-1 work, and rigorous iteration on existing systemsExcellent communication skills; you can build alignment with engineers, PMs, and executives, and explain design rationale clearlyComfort working in ambiguity, with incomplete requirements, and evolving your own scopePrior experience at an early- or growth-stage startup, with a bias toward shipping over perfecting in isolationAble to code your own prototypes (HTML/CSS and enough JavaScript to build interactive, functional mockups)📢 Let's ConnectThink you're the perfect fit? We're excited to meet you! Reach out, share your story, and let's explore how you can ignite change at Campfire.❤️‍🩹 BenefitsWe provide top decile benefits including 100% premium coverage for employees and 80% coverage for dependents with comprehensive healthcare and dental care options.