Senior Interaction Visual Designer

Intuitive•Sunnyvale, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Visual/Interaction Designer, Ion Design System, owns the visual language and design system for Intuitive’s Ion products. The role defines, evolves, and protects visual structure, hierarchy, components, layouts, and patterns that support clear, consistent experiences across Ion clinical workflows and product touchpoints, including the PlanPoint laptop and robotic experience. The designer translates shared company design-system foundations into product-specific solutions for clinical environments, touchscreens, procedural workflows, and specialized interfaces. They establish reusable patterns and components, guide their application across product areas, and ensure designs are cohesive, accessible, technically feasible, and ready for implementation. The role also identifies opportunities to extend or improve the Ion Design System. As a senior individual contributor, this designer exercises visual-design judgment, influences design direction, resolves complex and ambiguous problems, and raises design quality and consistency across the team. They contribute to critiques, provide mentorship and feedback, and help establish a durable visual-design practice for Ion. The position is full-time and based in Sunnyvale, California.

Requirements

At least 5 years of professional experience in visual design, product design, production design, design systems, or a related discipline.
Advanced Figma expertise, including component libraries, variables, component properties, conditions, variants, and auto layout.
Strong visual design skills and experience creating detailed specifications for engineering implementation.
Experience designing responsive interfaces, working directly with Engineers, and conducting visual quality assurance.
Strong visual judgment and attention to quality, consistency, hierarchy, and craft.
Ability to take ownership of complex work and navigate ambiguity.
Effective communication and collaboration skills across Design, Engineering, Product, Clinical, and Human Factors partners.
Ability to balance visual quality, usability, accessibility, technical feasibility, and product constraints.
Bachelor’s degree in Visual Design, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related discipline preferred; equivalent experience may be considered.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing for technically complex products.
Experience with QML, medical devices, robotics, or other safety-critical products.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Interaction Designers to develop clear, polished interfaces for Intuitive’s robotic surgical systems.
Define and maintain visual rules, patterns, and conventions for the Ion product.
Build and maintain Figma component libraries, including components, states, variants, and responsive behaviors.
Create production-ready Figma files and specifications for Engineering.
Partner with Engineers throughout implementation and conduct visual quality assurance.
Design across screen sizes and support localization, translation, and consistent implementation.
Contribute to the continued evolution of the Ion Design System and mentor other designers.
Influence design direction, resolve complex and ambiguous problems, and raise the quality and consistency of design across the team.
Contribute to design critiques and provide mentorship and feedback.