Come build the place where good work gets found.
Web Design Awards has been judging the web's best work since 2014 — the curated index, the judging tools, the hiring board and the agency marketplace behind it. It is a small, remote, distributed team, and the roles below are owned rather than staffed.
- Remote
- Small team
- Distributed
- Est. 2014
Three seats, currently empty.
Every role links out to its full description and application form on Land Early.
You design the pages that a site about design gets judged on. Wireframes through high-fidelity mockups, the layout and type systems underneath, and work that holds up to close scrutiny — because here, it will get some.
What you'd do
- Design responsive pages end to end — wireframe, high-fidelity mockup, prototype, handoff spec.
- Own the layout, typography and UI component systems the rest of the site is built from.
- Hold the work to WCAG and to real device performance, not just to the Figma frame.
- Take the feedback and the usability findings, and rework it until it is right.
What we're after
- A portfolio of live web projects with visible visual rigour.
- Fluent in Figma and in modern responsive layout technique.
- Accessibility is part of how you design, not a pass at the end.
- Runs several projects at once without being managed through them.
Nice to have- Basic HTML/CSS
- Performance-minded design
- Motion & interaction
Hands-on and senior in the load-bearing sense. You own areas of the codebase and make the architectural calls that come with that — across the curated index, the judging tools, and the hiring and agency marketplace.
What you'd do
- Ship features across the whole stack, from schema through to interface.
- Own significant parts of the codebase, and the architecture decisions inside them.
- Review code and bring junior engineers up, deliberately rather than incidentally.
- Take on the production work — performance, scale, reliability — that nobody assigns.
What we're after
- 5+ years professional engineering, with features you owned end to end.
- Strong in a modern backend language and a modern frontend framework.
- Relational databases, APIs and web architecture are familiar ground.
- Comfortable in a small, fast-moving, distributed team.
Nice to have- Performance work
- Accessibility
- SEO-heavy content platforms
- Mentoring
First contact with the agencies and studios we want in the index. Outbound that has been researched rather than blasted, inbound that gets qualified properly, and meetings that are worth the calendar slot.
What you'd do
- Run outbound to design agencies and studios over email, LinkedIn and elsewhere.
- Qualify the inbound, and book the meetings and demos worth taking.
- Research the target accounts properly — the personalisation is the job.
- Keep the CRM honest, and work campaign follow-up alongside marketing.
What we're after
- You have done sales development, business development or outbound before.
- Genuinely strong written and verbal communication.
- Comfortable with volume, and with the follow-up that comes after it.
- You have worked a CRM — HubSpot, Salesforce or similar.
Nice to have- Selling to creative teams
- Outreach / Apollo / Salesloft
What you'd actually be working on.
Not a landing page with a form behind it. Six live products, all of them public.
- 01
The award, and the archive behind it
Every judged winner gets a permanent page, a published score and an embeddable badge. The archive is the reason anyone trusts the rest of it.
See the winners → - 02
Judging tools, and a rubric in public
Submissions run past a real jury against criteria anyone can read. The tooling that makes that fast — and consistent between judges — is a product in its own right.
Read the rubric → - 03
A hiring board for the industry
Design and engineering roles posted by agencies, studios and product teams, indexed by category, city and remote.
Browse the jobs board → - 04
The agency directory and rankings
Studios ranked and indexed by technology, city, country and industry, plus the matching flow that puts briefs in front of the right ones.
See the rankings → - 05
Winner of the Day, in the browser
A free Chrome extension that turns every new tab into an award-winning site. No account, no tracking, one permission.
See the extension → - 06
Everything that makes it findable
Editorial pages, top-100 lists, technology and category indexes, structured data. A platform nobody can find recognises nobody.
See a top 100 →
Small team, real ownership.
Worth knowing before you spend an evening on the application.
Every open role is remote. The platform has been international since 2014 and the team works distributed — which is why written clarity is weighted so heavily in every listing.
Small and fast-moving. There is no layer between you and the decision, and no queue of people to route a question through.
Roles here are owned, not staffed. You take a thing from the first sketch or the first schema through to the version people actually use.
We run an awards platform against a public rubric. It would be a strange place to ship work that would not survive its own judging.
Before you apply.
Are these roles remote?
Yes. Every currently open role is remote. Web Design Awards has been an international platform since 2014 and the team works distributed, which is why clear written communication is called out in every one of the listings.
How do I apply?
Each role on this page links straight to its full description and application form on Land Early, where we run our hiring. There is no separate form to fill in here first.
Is this the same thing as your jobs board?
No. The jobs board carries roles posted by agencies, studios and product teams across the industry, indexed by category, city and remote. This page lists only the roles open at Web Design Awards itself.
Do I need a portfolio?
For the Web Designer role, yes — the listing asks for a portfolio of live web projects, so bring one. For the engineering and sales roles, work you can talk through in detail matters more than the length of the CV.
Nothing here fits what I do.
Then do not force it into one of these. Get in touch and tell us what you would actually be doing — or, if you build sites, submit one for judging. A site that goes through the rubric says more than a cover letter does.
If one of these is obviously you.
Applications go through Land Early. Short form, real person on the other end of it.
Not one of these? Get in touch — or browse the industry jobs board.