Product Design Lead, Design Systems

Raydar

1d • $147,900 - $280,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As Product Design Lead, Design Systems, you will shape the patterns and design language used across the entire platform. This is a hands-on Staff/Principal-level individual contributor role with broad strategic ownership. You will partner with approximately 18 dedicated engineers and help define an AI-native approach to design quality, prototyping and implementation.

Requirements

• 8-20 years of product design or design systems experience, with approximately 12 years a strong fit for the role's scope.
• Prior Staff, Principal or Lead-level responsibility and the ability to combine vision and strategy with hands-on individual contributor work.
• Experience designing systems, repeatable interaction patterns and UX frameworks for complex B2B platforms, horizontal architectures or developer tools.
• Practical use of AI-assisted coding and prototyping tools such as Cursor, Claude Code or Codex; comfort working close to code rather than relying only on static design files.
• Strong visual, interaction and user experience craft, including accessibility expertise.
• A portfolio showing pattern-level work beyond basic component or token libraries, with clear ownership, trade-offs and outcomes.
• Autonomy, pace and the ability to identify problems, bring partners together and drive solutions without heavy process.

Nice To Haves

• Experience at companies known for strong consumer or mobile design.
• Ownership of a complex design system within a large organization.
• Experience building AI-native design systems or tools that automate design-quality evaluation.
• Strong mobile interaction craft alongside experience with dense enterprise products.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, repeatable interaction patterns, UX flows and frameworks that go beyond component and token libraries.
• Build patterns that work across dense product experiences and the growing mobile design system.
• Develop AI-driven systems that define, measure and check design quality against shared standards.
• Create AI prototyping tools and code-based checks that help teams produce high-quality implementations.
• Own platform-wide initiatives from identifying a problem and setting strategy through hands-on prototyping and delivery.
• Work closely with engineers, product managers and designers to improve craft and the platform's design language.
• Raise the quality of work across teams while remaining an active practitioner.

Benefits

• $200,000-$280,000 annual base salary, plus competitive equity with four-year vesting.
• Compensation depends on location, experience and level. The source also lists broader US location bands of $174,000-$280,000 for Tier 1, $156,600-$261,000 for Tier 2 and $147,900-$246,500 for Tier 3; confirm the applicable package during hiring.
• Staff/Principal scope with significant platform-wide ownership and dedicated engineering support.

What This Job Offers

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