Sr. Design Systems Designer

Alteryx • MA

81d • $139,475 - $160,300

About The Position

At Alteryx, we believe that analytics can empower all employees to make faster, more insightful, and more confident decisions — regardless of technical skill level. With our low-code, no-code platform and easy drag-and-drop capabilities, everyone can move on from report building and say hello to data storytelling. Alteryx is headquartered in Irvine, California, and has additional offices across the globe. The Alteryx UX team is seeking a Senior Design System Designer to play a critical role in advancing our Onyx Design System. You will partner with fellow designers, engineers, accessibility experts, and brand teams to shape and scale a cohesive user experience across our platform. In this role, you’ll focus on the design, documentation, and evolution of components and patterns within Figma. As a senior individual contributor, you'll help drive adoption, influence standards, and support system-wide consistency, ensuring that the Onyx system continues to meet the needs of product teams and end users. You’ll work in close partnership with others across the UX organization to ensure our design system is robust, intuitive, and future-proof. Please provide a portfolio when applying to this position.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product design, with at least 2 years focused on contributing to design systems.
• Proficiency in Figma, including component architecture, variants, tokens, libraries, and design file organization.
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates thoughtful contributions to a shared design system, including documentation and collaboration with engineering.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and influencing design outcomes at the platform or pattern level.
• Familiarity with WCAG accessibility principles and how they apply to system components.
• Clear and effective communicator—able to articulate rationale, gather alignment, and advocate for system goals across teams.
• Experience working on complex or enterprise-scale products is highly valued.

Nice To Haves

• Experience contributing to or collaborating with DesignOps functions—such as improving design workflows, tooling, documentation practices, or system governance.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the evolution and maintenance of the Onyx Design System in Figma, with a focus on high-quality components, patterns, tokens, and documentation.
• Ensure visual consistency, clarity, and craftsmanship across system components by applying strong foundational principles in layout, color, typography, and hierarchy.
• Help lead visual standards discussions across the UX organization, advocating for elevated visual quality and consistency across products and platforms.
• Conduct audits of in-product visual design, identify areas of visual drift or inconsistency, and propose system-based solutions to resolve them.
• Partner closely with engineers to ensure components are implemented with visual precision, accessibility, and scalability in mind.
• Drive adoption of the system by evangelizing best practices across product design, engineering, and brand teams.
• Act as a mentor to other product and system designers, offering design critiques, onboarding, and training.
• Partner with accessibility, content, localization, and brand teams to ensure inclusive and scalable system foundations.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve system tooling, documentation, and developer experience.
• Advocate for the strategic value of design systems at team and organizational levels.
• Advocate for a system-first mindset through design critiques, internal presentations, and informal coaching.

Benefits

• Medical
• Retirement
• Financial
• Wellness
• Time off
• Employee discounts

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees