Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

Flex • New York, NY

2d • $156,000 - $172,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Product Designer at Flex, you’ll help shape the future of financial access for consumers underserved by traditional products, partnering closely with our platform team to drive the evolution and adoption of our new Ultraviolet design system, as we migrate from our legacy foundation. You will lead initiatives from discovery through delivery—defining the system’s long-term vision, identifying opportunities for improvement, and creating scalable solutions that enhance product quality and team efficiency. Your work will ensure tight alignment between design and engineering by keeping our Figma libraries accurate, intuitive, and fully synced with Storybook components. Collaborating with product managers, engineers, data analysts, and a talented design team, you’ll play a critical role in building seamless, meaningful experiences that improve the financial lives of millions of Americans. This is a hybrid position with on-site expectations in our New York Headquarters or San Francisco/ Bay Area Office, 2-3 days per week depending on location. For candidates outside of a required location, you may be eligible for our relocation assistance program.

Requirements

• 4+ years experience designing and shipping consumer products
• Strong Figma expertise, including component creation, variants, auto-layout, and library management
• Experience maintaining and managing design system libraries for mid to large size design teams
• Understanding of design tokens, component versioning, and scalable system architecture
• Proven ability to document and annotate designs for cross-functional collaboration
• Experience working on or with larger, multi-disciplinary teams (design, engineering, product)
• Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
• Comfort documenting and explaining system rationale and guidance, including leveraging best practices, research, data
• Track record of supporting the design of simple, intuitive products that are powered by complex systems and edge cases
• Demonstrated aptitude for getting things done to make your team successful – wearing several different hats when necessary
• Strong native mobile app design experience (iOS and Android)
• Figma expert, and experience using AI tools to sketch and prototype
• Comfort with ambiguous problems
• Motivation to be a self-starter
• Passion for improving every day people’s financial well being
• A portfolio of work detailing your contributions to shipped solutions

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Storybook or similar coded component libraries is strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance our Figma design system libraries, ensuring components are accurate, scalable, and easy to use.
• Build, annotate, and publish components following Ultraviolet design standards and documentation best practices.
• Contribute to and help manage design system libraries, maintain documentation on usage and guidance for stakeholders
• Facilitate alignment with your cross-functional partners, stakeholders, and designers in other parts of the organization to ensure that our system is flexible and scalable
• Partner with the design team to ensure that Figma components are optimized for usability and discoverability
• Solicit feedback from and provide feedback to designers and collaborators across teams to align with core experience principles and systems best practices
• Care deeply for and lead by example by setting the standard for high quality craft through your approach to design systems through interaction design, prototyping, and visual design choices
• Collaborate across design and engineering to improve processes, documentation, and to ensure accurate implementation
• Ensure Figma aligns with Storybook as a source of truth for what is built in code, partnering closely with engineers to maintain design–dev parity
• Contribute to our Design System, by aligning it with industry best practices and evolving our patterns to scale a modern, polished user experience
• Bring an excitement to adopt new technologies into your process to help us move faster and deliver even better results

Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision available from Day 1
• Company equity
• 401(k) plan with company match (our company match kicks off at the beginning of 2026)
• Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Flex Cares Program
• Free Flex subscription
• Competitive compensation + company equity
• Unlimited PTO

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees