Founding Design Engineer

Autumn makes best-in-class software and digital marketing accessible to independent hotels, B&Bs, resorts, and more. We're passionate about supporting this underserved segment of hoteliers so these unique properties can continue to thrive for generations to come.

We're founded by repeat entrepreneurs with deep hotel experience and backed by Tier 1 venture capital firms, having raised the largest seed round in hotel tech history. We're a tight-knit team based in New York City, working in person out of our waterfront office in Williamsburg.

We're building an AI-native platform that helps independent hoteliers grow revenue, streamline workflows, and deliver better guest experiences.

We're hiring a Design Engineer with exceptional visual taste and strong product judgment to join our founding team.

You’ll shape both the software hotel operators use and the experiences their guests see. Your work will span Autumn’s product UI, our own website, and reusable website and email templates that hotels use to attract and engage guests.

We want someone who can make a complex product workflow feel simple and create a beautiful, compelling website that makes someone want to book a stay. Strong interaction design, exceptional visual craft, and production-quality front-end code are equally important in this role.

This is a highly hands‑on role. You’ll work directly with founders, engineers, and hotel operators to understand problems, explore solutions, prototype quickly, and ship the result. You’ll build what you design yourself, in production code.

The hotel-facing web work is about creating flexible templates and systems that serve many properties, rather than designing each hotel's website individually.

What You’ll Do

• Own product experiences end to end. Take work from problem definition and user research through information architecture, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, front‑end implementation, and iteration.
• Make complex workflows intuitive. Turn hospitality workflows across revenue, marketing, guest management, and operations into clear interfaces that busy hotel operators can use confidently.
• Design thoughtful AI‑native experiences. Help users delegate work, review outputs, maintain control, and recover when systems fail.
• Design and build Autumn’s website. Translate our positioning and product story into a distinctive, compelling experience, and ship it in code.
• Create reusable hotel website templates. Design and build layouts, components, and customization options that work beautifully across different properties, brands, imagery, and content.
• Create reusable email templates. Design and build responsive HTML email that helps hotels communicate with prospective and returning guests through clear, visually compelling marketing and guest communications.
• Build coherent design systems. Develop components, patterns, and visual foundations in design and in code across product UI, websites, and email, adapting them to each audience and medium.
• Work directly with customers and engineers. Understand real needs, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and ensure the shipped experience reflects the design intent.
• Learn from shipped work. Use customer feedback and performance data to improve usability, engagement, and conversion.

• Has exceptional taste and cares deeply about typography, hierarchy, composition, imagery, interaction, and the details that make an experience feel considered.
• Is equally comfortable designing and building useful product interfaces and compelling consumer‑facing websites.
• Can simplify complicated workflows without losing functionality that users need.
• Thinks beyond a polished screen or page to consider navigation, responsive behavior, loading, empty states,…