About Us
QuillBot was founded in 2017 with a mission to help students and professionals strengthen their writing. Today, we help over 56 million people around the world create great things. Whether you're writing, designing, coding, or collaborating, QuillBot is a place where anyone can create at the speed of thought. Our AI-powered tools help you think clearly, communicate effectively, and create beautifully—across every platform, in any format, at any skill level. If you're passionate about using technology to make the path from inspiration to execution more accessible, intentional, and relevant, come join us.
About the Product Design Team
At QuillBot, our design team sits at the intersection of creativity, craft, and impact. We’re a small, passionate group of designers obsessed with solving real user problems through thoughtful systems, elegant interfaces, and delightful moments. We champion quality, from visual aesthetics to usability, from deep user empathy to innovative interactions. We aren’t just following trends, we aim to set standards in design for AI writing tools.You’ll be joining a design culture that’s collaborative, fast-moving, and outcome-driven—where your ideas can go from concept to shipped in days, and your voice helps shape the product and the team.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end product design, from initial user research and exploration to final pixel-perfect delivery in close collaboration with product managers, engineers, researchers, and senior design leadership.
- Take an active role in designing QuillBot’s browser extension experience for Chrome, Edge, and Safari, contributing to its core capabilities, interaction patterns, and visual design, and shaping how users engage with AI-powered writing directly within web-based workflows.
- Partner with other designers to ensure the browser extension integrates seamlessly with our web app and other product surfaces, creating a unified, consistent, and intuitive user experience across the entire product ecosystem.
- Contribute to and evolve our design language system, balancing reuse of patterns with the thoughtful creation of new, scalable components suitable for the given surface.
- Advocate for user experience by deeply understanding user needs, behaviors, and the broader goals they’re trying to achieve, not just isolated feature usage.
- Craft thoughtful and elegant experiences within the constraints of browser environments, using strong interaction design, clear visual hierarchy, and well-considered micro-interactions, while building a solid understanding of web technologies, extension frameworks, and cross-browser limitations.
- Help nurture a culture of design excellence by actively participating in critiques, mentoring peers, and contributing to team rituals.
Qualifications
- Has 3–5 years of experience designing consumer-facing web products or browser extensions, ideally with complex user flows, productivity tools, or in-context experiences embedded within existing workflows.
- Has a portfolio that showcases systems thinking, polished visual design, and user-centered processes.
- Understands and uses design systems not just to maintain consistency but to scale design across web surfaces and browser environments.
- Is self-directed, thrives in ambiguity, and moves quickly without sacrificing quality.
- Brings strong interaction and visual design skills, with high attention to craft and a solid understanding of responsive design, web patterns, and browser-specific constraints.
- Is a prototyper—whether through Figma, Claude, code, or motion, to quickly explore and test ideas.
- Writes well or values writing, understands how language shapes experience, and how writing and design inform each other.
- Has experience designing for AI-powered tools or is ready to use their understanding to help build the UX of emerging AI capabilities.
- Bonus: Uses AI in their design process, has front-end development skills.
Why Join Us?
- Work on a product with real, meaningful impact helping millions write better every day.
- Join a company that’s still growing fast, but already stable and profitable.
- Collaborate with a talented, mission-driven team that cares deeply about quality, speed, and innovation.
- Help shape the future of writing at the intersection of AI and creativity.
Benefits & Perks
- Competitive salary and annual bonus
- Medical coverage
- Life and accidental insurance
- Vacation & leaves of absence (menstrual, flexible, special, and more!)
- Developmental opportunities through education & developmental reimbursements & professional workshops
- Maternity & parental leave
- Hybrid & remote model with flexible working hours
- On-site & remote company events throughout the year
- Tech & WFH stipends & new hire allowances
- Employee referral program
- Premium access to QuillBot
*Benefits and benefit amounts differ by region. A comprehensive list applicable to your region will be provided in your interview process.
Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria. We strongly encourage you to apply if you're interested: we'd love to learn how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!
This role is eligible for hire in India.
We are a virtual-first company and have employees dispersed throughout the United States, Canada, India, Israel, Germany, and the Netherlands. We have a market-based pay structure that varies by location. The base pay for this position is dependent on multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed. You may also be eligible to participate in our bonus program and may be offered benefits, and other types of compensation.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement (EEO)
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion within our company. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or ability status. We will ensure that individuals who are differently abled are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment as provided to other applicants or employees. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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303 E Wacker Dr, 2101, Chicago, IL, United States, 60601
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