Lead Design Technologist

Full Timelead

SydneyPosted 3 days ago

Role Overview

Culture Amp is hiring a Lead Design Technologist. This is a full-time role in Sydney. posted 3 days ago. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.

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Job description

We’re big believers in the power of IRL, so for most roles we ask Campers to work from their local Culture Amp office an average of 2 days a week to unlock connection, pace and culture together.

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work.

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,000 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

Join us in creating a better world of work

As our Lead Design Technologist you will sit at the bleeding edge of how we design and build product — blurring the line between design and engineering and changing the way Culture Amp ships experiences. This is a horizontal, high-influence role that touches our design system, our AI-assisted workflows, and the future of how designers and engineers collaborate at Culture Amp.

You'll be embedded in our Agentic Engineering team and deeply connected to the design practice. You'll lead the adoption of our next-generation component system, build tooling that empowers designers to take frontend work further, and incubate new patterns at the intersection of AI, accessibility, and adaptive interfaces. This isn't a role for someone who just wants to execute — we're looking for a pioneer who is genuinely obsessed with where the design-to-code workflow is heading, and wants to shape it here.

You'll need to be a self-starter who is comfortable navigating ambiguity, influencing across teams, and bringing both design rigour and engineering pragmatism to every conversation.

What You'll Be Doing

Lead the migration to our next-generation component system (built on Tailwind and React), establishing a golden path for greenfield projects and enabling teams to incrementally refactor existing surfaces
Build tooling and workflows that close the gap between Figma and production — enabling designers to take frontend changes further without always needing an engineer
Prototype emerging interaction patterns and adaptive interface concepts (e.g. accessibility-driven UI personalisation, white-label theming), validating ideas before they hit the roadmap
Help encode design taste into our AI-assisted build workflows — establishing the standards, tokens, and semantic foundations that prevent AI tooling from producing generic, low-quality UI
Act as the connective tissue between design practice, unified systems, and engineering — aligning teams on tooling, standards, and the direction of frontend transformation
Champion accessibility throughout the design and build process, raising the bar for inclusive, high-quality experiences at scale
Share learnings across teams through documentation, demos, and hands-on support — accelerating the capability of designers and engineers alike

What You'll Have

5+ years of experience at the intersection of design and engineering — you've shipped production frontend code and built things designers actually use
Deep proficiency in Figma, including component architecture, variables, and plugin development
Strong working knowledge of React and modern JavaScript — you write code that others can build on and maintain
Hands-on experience with design systems at scale: tokens, semantic foundations, component governance, and the tooling that makes systems stick
A genuine curiosity about AI-assisted design and build workflows — you're already experimenting, not just watching
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills — you can hold a design perspective strongly in an engineering context, and vice versa
Accessibility knowledge in practice (WCAG 2.1), with a track record of building inclusive experiences

Perks & Benefits

At Culture Amp, our people are at the heart of our success. We offer competitive pay and a total rewards package designed to support you at work and in life. This includes:

Equity through our Employee Share Option Program, so you can share in our long-term success
Learning programs and coaching to help you thrive and grow
Quarterly refresh days, an extended end-of-year break and a monthly allowance to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
Inclusive parental leave from day one
A MacBook and budget to set up your home workspace, enabling flexibility
Five annual social impact days to to give back to causes that matter to you
Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)

Our rewards are designed to support different needs and life stages, recognising that what matters most can vary from person to person.

Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds may hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every requirement, but your unique experience matters. If you’re interested in joining us, we strongly encourage you to apply and help us build a more diverse and impactful team.

Accommodations & Data Privacy

If you require reasonable accommodations or adjustments due to a disability to complete the online application or to participate in the interview process, please contact accommodations@cultureamp.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Culture Amp will retain your CV & personal information for a period of two years (four years for the US) from the date of your application process completion. Culture Amp may contact you in relation to future job opportunities during this time period. For further information please see our privacy policy here or contact privacy@cultureamp.com.

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Where is the Lead Design Technologist position at Culture Amp located?

This position is based in Sydney. Culture Amp has not indicated remote or hybrid options for this role, so candidates should plan for on-site work.

What does a Lead Design Technologist at Culture Amp earn?

Culture Amp has not disclosed a salary range in this posting. Many employers share specifics later in the interview process; you can also ask during a recruiter screen if compensation transparency is important to you.

When was the Lead Design Technologist role at Culture Amp posted?

This role was posted on July 7, 2026 (3 days ago). It's still listed as actively hiring; we re-confirm openings against the source system multiple times per day and remove closed roles.