Lead Product Designer - Design Systems
About The Position
As the Lead Product Designer, Design Systems, you are responsible for defining, evolving, and scaling our design system to ensure cohesive, accessible, and high-quality experiences across our product ecosystem. This role focuses on being a thought leader and hands-on builder of the foundational components, patterns, and guidelines that empower product teams to move faster while raising the bar for craft, consistency, and brand integrity. As a senior individual contributor and design leader, you will partner with product, engineering, brand, and system leadership to translate system strategy into production-ready solutions. You will raise design standards, bring vision into practice, and mentor others in designing with systems at scale.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in product, visual, or systems design, including significant ownership of design systems.
- Deep expertise building and scaling design systems in complex, multi-product environments.
- Strong systems thinking - you see patterns, anticipate edge cases, and design for scale.
- Hands-on experience designing and maintaining component libraries in tools like Figma and Storybook.
- You stay up to date and have experience with the latest design system features, tooling and benchmarks, including emerging AI-assisted design and development workflows (e.g., MCP, Code Connect, Figma Make, v0).
- Strong understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design principles.
- Experience collaborating closely with Engineering to deliver production-ready components.
- Ability to translate complex system requirements into clear, usable patterns and documentation.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate system decisions and influence adoption.
- Familiarity with front-end technologies and constraints (e.g., CSS, component-based frameworks like React or Angular, and design tokens).
Responsibilities
- Lead the evolution of the company’s design system, creating a shared set of elements that are flexible across web and mobile platforms.
- Design and maintain scalable components, tokens, patterns, and system documentation.
- Partner with engineering to deliver high-quality, performant libraries, tooling, and documentation.
- Champion accessibility, inclusivity, and localization within the design system.
- Advocate for high-quality design craft by raising visual and interaction standards across the organization.
- Enable and educate product teams through documentation, workshops, critiques, and hands-on collaboration.
- Partner with product, engineering, brand, and marketing teams to encourage adoption and alignment.
- Mentor designers and influence the broader organization by promoting systems thinking as a core design capability.
- Continuously identify gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities to improve the system as products evolve.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401K retirement plan
- paid-time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
