# Head of Design Engineering at Tasklet

- Company: Tasklet (YC P26)
- What the company does: Agents that own the work. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://tasklet.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $300K to $450K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tasklet-2/jobs/Qz919CA-head-of-design-engineering
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/tasklet-head-of-design-engineering/

## About the role

Own Tasklet's product design end to end. Make the whole product feel simple, intuitive, coherent, and beautiful—not just individual screens or features. Build what you design. You will personally write production code and ship most of your work. There is no traditional design-to-engineering handoff.

## What they're looking for

- You're a hands-on engineer with exceptional design judgment. You are fluent in modern frontend development and can take an idea all the way to polished production software yourself
- You've created something real from zero. Ideally, you've been a founder or had equivalent ownership of a meaningful product from its earliest conception through real customer use. Your portfolio shows personal authorship, not just participation
- You think in products and systems, not screens. You can form a clear mental model of a complicated system and turn it into something ordinary people immediately understand
- You have exceptional taste and sweat the details. You care about the final 10% that separates functional software from software people love
- You lead while remaining an IC. You make teammates better through shipped work, crisp principles, thoughtful critique, and high standards. You want influence, not a management empire
- You're deeply AI-pilled. You use AI every day to explore more ideas, build faster, and produce better work. You're excited to define new interaction patterns for humans and agents

Tags: Design