Manager (IC), Product Design - Design Systems

Capital One • McLean, NY

5d

About The Position

We are seeking a visionary, tech-forward Product Designer, Design Systems to join our Premium Products and Travel Design team. In this role, you will sit at the intersection of advanced system logic, human-centered design, and front-end engineering. You will operate across portfolios, ensuring our premium digital experiences scale seamlessly while maintaining an uncompromising standard of craft. This is not a traditional Figma-only system role: you will own the end-to-end lifecycle of our component architecture—from initial tokenization in Figma to production-ready code. Furthermore, you will future-proof our design ecosystem. As generative AI and tools redefine interface production, you will transition from a traditional asset creator to an experience auditor, logic planner, and automation coach. You will design the rules, data schemas, and guardrails that govern AI-native environments, ensuring that automated outputs never compromise a cohesive customer journey.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in a Product Design, Systems Design, or Design Engineering role.
• At least 5 years building and scaling multi-level design systems.

Nice To Haves

• Experience navigating highly regulated, data-heavy, or premium/travel-specific digital ecosystems.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating complex systems problem-solving, UI engineering artifacts, and documentation of automated or dynamic layouts.
• Deep code literacy with the ability to navigate, review, and collaborate within front-end code repositories (e.g. React, HTML/CSS, or token pipelines).
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate table-stakes front-end implementation and prototyping is highly valued.
• Experience utilizing advanced AI tooling or LLM workflows (e.g. Claude, automated code generation) within design or development pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build, govern, and maintain scalable component libraries.
• Act as the long-term guardian of components across design files and code repositories by collaborating directly inside the repo with engineering, reviewing code for design parity, and shipping foundational front-end updates when needed.
• Establish the system logic, prompt criteria, and UX frameworks necessary to guide AI-generated patterns.
• Serve as an experience auditor to prevent fragmented user experiences.
• Navigate complex tech ecosystems, mapping disparate data schemas into structurally sound user flows.
• Design sophisticated component interactions optimized for both human users and automated AI agents.
• Act as the core design catalyst within a dedicated cross-functional pod, serving as the technical peer to engineers.
• Partner seamlessly with Enterprise Design Systems teams to ensure local Premium systems align or intentionally deviate from macro enterprise standards.
• Perform rigorous heuristic evaluations of live experiences.
• Establish clear frameworks and UX metrics to measure the health, adoption, and end-to-end coherence of system journeys.
• Act as a player/coach and technical mentor for the design team.
• Lead workshops, facilitate onboarding for new product teams, and coach traditional product designers on scaling their systemic thinking and technical fluency.
• Champion a robust contribution governance model that empowers other designers to co-create and evolve the system without breaking core integrity.

Benefits

• comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being
• performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed