Product Designer (Design Systems Specialist)
About The Position
The Product Designer (Design Systems Specialist) will help define the visual language and user experience for next-generation wearable products, including glasses, watches, and other emerging hardware experiences. The role builds, evolves, and stewards a scalable design system used across products and platforms, collaborating closely with product designers and engineering partners. The designer will develop and maintain reusable components, patterns, templates, and product flows; manage Figma libraries and design-system workflows; document standards and specifications; and support designers using the system. The role also includes conducting design audits across iOS, Android, web, and other supported platforms and identifying ways to improve consistency, scalability, usability, and efficiency across the product ecosystem. This is a contract position based in Seattle, Washington, with a hybrid workplace. The stated pay range is $65.00–$75.00 per hour. The position is expected to close on November 18, 2026. If eligible, benefits for this temporary role may include medical, dental, and vision coverage; critical illness, accident, and hospital coverage; a 401(k) retirement plan; life and disability insurance; a health spending account; transportation benefits; an employee assistance program; and time off or leave.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant product or digital design experience.
- Strong experience developing, maintaining, or stewarding design systems.
- Expert-level proficiency with Figma, including component libraries and reusable design patterns.
- Experience translating product requirements into scalable components and interaction patterns.
- Strong attention to detail and a systems-oriented approach to design.
- Experience creating clear design specifications and documentation.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills and the ability to advocate for design-system standards and practices.
- Experience working closely with product designers and engineering partners.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment with shifting priorities and some ambiguity.
- Experience designing for native platforms such as iOS, Android, macOS, or Windows, as well as responsive web experiences.
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and basic markup concepts.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
- Familiarity with file management and versioning workflows using tools such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or GitHub.
- Experience training designers or scaling design-system knowledge across teams.
- Proficiency creating and presenting design concepts using Apple Keynote or Google Slides.
- Previous experience building or significantly scaling a design system.
- Strong prototyping skills.
- Experience working on complex, multi-platform product ecosystems.
- Ability to clearly present design rationale and build consensus across stakeholders.
- Experience establishing productive partnerships between design systems, product design, and engineering teams.
- Experience with production design and component-level quality assurance.
- Passion for design systems and helping other designers work more consistently and efficiently.
Responsibilities
- Build, organize, maintain, and distribute a comprehensive Figma component library.
- Create and maintain reusable components, patterns, templates, and key product flows.
- Develop detailed design specifications for components and patterns.
- Write, publish, and maintain design-system documentation.
- Partner with product designers to explore and define new component variants.
- Establish and improve design-system workflows across design and engineering.
- Manage design handoffs, specifications, task tracking, and design-system updates.
- Troubleshoot issues involving design files, components, layers, and file organization.
- Provide guidance and support to designers using the design system.
- Conduct detailed design audits across iOS, Android, web, and other supported platforms.
- Identify opportunities to improve consistency, scalability, usability, and efficiency across the product ecosystem.
- Scale design-system knowledge, standards, and best practices across the organization.
- Collaborate with product designers and engineering partners on the visual language and user experience of emerging wearable products.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Critical illness coverage
- Accident coverage
- Hospital coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Voluntary life and AD&D insurance for the employee and dependents
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- Transportation benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Time off/leave, including PTO, vacation, or sick leave
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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