Staff Design Systems Designer

Harvey • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

As a Staff Design Systems Designer, you will define the foundations that make Harvey’s product coherent, scalable, and trustworthy as it grows in complexity. The design system is not just a library of components—it is the shared language between design, engineering, and AI that ensures consistency, quality, and confidence across every interaction.
In this role, you will operate as both a systems thinker and hands-on builder. Working in close partnership with frontend and platform engineering, you will design, ship, and evolve the components, patterns, and tokens that power the product. Your work will directly shape how quickly teams can build, how reliably the product behaves, and how confidently users interact with AI-driven workflows.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in product design, with significant ownership of design systems in complex product environments
• An excelelnt portfolio demonstrating system-level thinking, component design, and real product impact
• Deep understanding of component architecture, design tokens, and how design systems scale across teams
• Proven experience partnering closely with frontend engineers to ship high-quality, production systems
• Strong working knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design practices
• Ability to clearly articulate system decisions and tradeoffs to designers, engineers, and cross-functional partners
• Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and bringing structure where it doesn’t yet exist

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the core design system foundations, including components, patterns, and tokens that scale across complex, AI-powered experiences
• Design, prototype, and ship production-ready system components in tight collaboration with frontend engineering
• Partner directly with frontend and platform engineers to ensure system decisions translate cleanly into code, with shared ownership of quality, performance, and maintainability
• Establish clear contribution, governance, and deprecation models that balance velocity with system integrity
• Embed accessibility, responsiveness, and performance into the system by default
• Document system usage and best practices in a way that is clear, practical, and trusted by product teams
• Advocate for system adoption and consistency in product planning, design reviews, and execution
• Anticipate future product and platform needs, evolving the system proactively as Harvey scales

What This Job Offers

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