Staff Product Designer, Design System

Zscaler•San Jose, CA

6h•Hybrid

About The Position

About Zscaler Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. As an AI-forward enterprise, we are constantly pushing the envelope, leveraging the world’s largest security data lake to power our cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform. This innovation protects our customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We say, impact over activity. We seek innovators who actively use AI to amplify their impact and who thrive in an environment where we leverage intelligent systems to stay ahead of evolving threats. We believe in transparency and value constructive, honest debate—we’re focused on getting to the best ideas, faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this, we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership, and accountability. We value high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency where you’re enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If you’re driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges, and want to be part of the team that’s helping to secure the AI age, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity. Role We are looking for a Staff Product Designer, Design System to join our team. This is a Hybrid (3 days - San Jose HQ) role, reporting to the Senior Manager, Product Design in the Product Management department. As the Staff Product Designer for the Design System, you will participate in the evolution of the organization’s design ecosystem, ensuring consistency, scalability, and excellence across all products. Leveraging cutting-edge tools and treating AI as a daily craft instrument, you will work closely with Design, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to set visual, interaction, and structural standards across Zscaler's product surfaces.

Requirements

Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a proven history of integrating new technologies to enhance daily workflows and augment problem-solving
8-10 years of Product Design experience, with 2+ years of experience in creating, scaling, and maintaining enterprise-grade Design Systems, accompanied by a portfolio showcasing component libraries, user guidelines, and successful adoption strategies
Experience working closely with engineering and design to align on Design System goals, provide mentorship, and advocate for design principles and best practices
Deep fluency in token architecture, theming, accessibility (WCAG), and responsive design
Deep understanding of front-end constraints and techniques, with fluency in working closely with engineering and reading code to understand implementation details
Extensive experience in design tools like Figma (or other design software) for component development

Nice To Haves

Ability to solve complex design challenges by developing scalable solutions that address user needs and align with technical, business, and product objectives
AI-powered tooling or automation built to accelerate design system workflows, generation, documentation, or handoff
Experience designing systems for cybersecurity, infrastructure, developer tools, or other highly technical or complex domains

Responsibilities

Create and refine scalable components and patterns, ensuring adaptability and consistency to improve product efficiency and cohesiveness
Contribute to and refine the Zscaler Design System end-to-end, including tokens, components, patterns, documentation, and governance
Use modern, AI-powered tool stacks such as Claude Code and Cursor to generate, iterate on, and launch live prototypes and products
Compress the loop between idea and shipped pattern by accelerating documentation and automating design-to-code handoff