Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

Bumble Inc. • Austin, TX

19h

About The Position

At Bumble, we exist to help people build healthy, equitable relationships and friendships — and the design system is one of the most powerful ways we bring that mission to life at scale. As a Senior Designer on our Design Systems team, you’ll shape the foundations of Bumble’s product experience, ensuring our interfaces feel intuitive, inclusive, and deeply human across iOS, Android, and web.

You’ll treat the design system as a product in its own right: one that reflects our members’ desired outcomes while making the right thing to do the easy thing to do for teams. Working in close partnership with product designers, engineers, research, and brand, you’ll help embed Bumble values like Respect, Excellence, and Curiosity into the patterns and components used by millions of people every day. You’ll also play an active role in using and supporting AI-powered workflows that help teams design and build with greater clarity, speed, and consistency.

Requirements

• You bring deep empathy for diverse users and consistently design with inclusion, accessibility, and safety at the forefront, reflecting Bumble’s values of Respect and Courage.
• You have strong experience designing and scaling component libraries, tokens, and patterns across multiple products or teams, balancing visual craft with usability and performance.
• You’re highly fluent in Figma, including components, variants, variable collections, libraries, and documentation workflows, and comfortable managing complex token systems (Tokens Studio experience is a plus).
• You communicate clearly and collaboratively with designers and engineers, explaining trade-offs and rationale in a way that builds trust, alignment, and shared ownership.
• You take ownership of your work end-to-end, collaborate with purpose across functions, and see ideas through from insight to impact, adapting plans with an agile mindset.
• You’re comfortable using AI-powered tools to support design exploration, documentation, and system maintenance, and you’re curious about how AI can responsibly improve design system workflows over time.
• Typically requires 7–9 years of experience using and maintaining or contributing to product design systems (frontend development is highly valued, though not a requirement or responsibility).
• You’re collaborative, low-ego, and excited to coach and elevate others across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Design, evolve, and maintain system tokens, components, and patterns that are accessible, resilient, and scalable across platforms, championing inclusive design practices aligned with our value of Respect.
• Audit existing product experiences to identify design debt, inconsistencies, and opportunities to improve system coverage, then take ownership of prioritising and delivering meaningful improvements.
• Partner closely with engineering to ensure strong parity between Figma libraries and production code, collaborating through shared design-to-code workflows and AI-supported documentation practices.
• Create clear, discoverable system documentation — including usage guidelines, do/don’ts, component states, motion, and error handling — that empowers teams to ship confidently and efficiently.
• Advocate for safe-by-design and accessible patterns that reflect Bumble’s commitment to kindness, safety, and equitable experiences for diverse members.
• Support and onboard product teams adopting the design system, facilitating alignment sessions, and responding thoughtfully to system support requests.
• Contribute to the design system’s product strategy by helping define its vision, roadmap, and success metrics, including adoption, usability improvements, and reduced time-to-ship.
• Use qualitative and quantitative feedback from designers, engineers, and members — alongside AI-assisted insights — to iterate, measure impact, and continuously improve the system with an agile mindset.

What This Job Offers

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