Sr Product Manager, Design Systems

Salesforce•San Francisco, CA

2d•$172,500 - $285,800

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS). SLDS is the industry-defining framework powering Salesforce's user interfaces. In this role, you will be the primary owner of platform health and roadmap for SLDS 1 and SLDS 2, ensuring a massive global base of developers and designers can build with confidence. This is a craft-focused, execution-intensive role where you will collaborate closely with engineering, design, and accessibility specialists to ship consistent, high-quality increments. You will help shape the product roadmap for UI customization, the Design Systems website, and platform maintenance & trust, ensuring backward compatibility and synchronization with design tooling.

Requirements

5+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time on design systems, component libraries, developer tools, or frontend platforms at scale.
Deep understanding of CSS architecture, design tokens, and component-level styling.
Fluency bridging design and engineering, understanding the DOM, CSS, accessibility specs (ARIA, screen reader behavior), and Figma.
Experience writing rigorous acceptance criteria, managing agile backlogs, and leading cross-functional delivery.
Strong analytical instincts — comfortable interpreting telemetry, accessibility audits, and user research to drive prioritization.
Clear, concise communicator across technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on familiarity with SLDS, Lightning Web Components, or another enterprise-scale design system (e.g., Carbon, Fluent, Material, Spectrum).
Prior experience as a designer, front-end engineer, or design technologist.
Deep familiarity with design token architecture and tooling pipelines (e.g., Style Dictionary, Theo).
Experience owning a component library, understanding the cost of breaking changes, and being an accessibility champion.

Responsibilities

Shape the product roadmap for SLDS UI customization, covering both pro-code and no-code/low-code user customization.
Define requirements and acceptance criteria for new styling capabilities.
Collaborate deeply with design and engineering on strategy and execution.
Prioritize opportunities based on user insights, data, and business objectives.
Drive the product roadmap for the Design Systems website, focusing on developer and designer documentation, component references, and contribution guidance.
Define and prioritize improvements to maximize builder self-service and reduce support burden.
Collaborate with content, engineering, design, and the broader community to maintain documentation.
Own the backlog and release roadmap for SLDS 1 and SLDS 2, balancing enhancements, bug resolution, technical debt, and compliance.
Maintain absolute backward compatibility for all updates.
Collaborate with design tooling teams to ensure Figma UI kits, linters, and validators stay in sync with the component library.