Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

Hinge Health • San Francisco, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Staff Product Designer on our Design System team, you’ll join a tight-knit, collaborative team who cares deeply about creating cohesive and intuitive product experiences. Our team is at the center of solving impactful problems for millions of members who are managing their joint and muscle health, and making a meaningful difference in their lives. In this role, you’ll directly shape the future of our Design System, focused on creating and evolving shared patterns and components to ensure a cohesive user experience across Hinge Health’s product suite. You’ll define not just what the system is, but how it evolves, how decisions get made, and how consistency and flexibility are balanced as Hinge Health ships rapidly. This is a high-impact role, at an especially exciting time in Hinge Health’s journey. As we scale with 51% year-over-year revenue gains and a member base expanding by over 47% annually, this role will be instrumental in sustaining our momentum and shaping the future of care.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product design experience, with deep ownership of a design system at scale.
• A standout portfolio showcasing high-impact design systems work and leadership across complex systems initiatives.
• Highly effective communicator with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and align teams around design direction.
• Demonstrated success mentoring designers and elevating the quality of team output.
• Deep fluency with tokens, component architecture, variants, and Figma systems craft.
• Experience with Claude Code (or other agentic coding tools), MCPs, and other AI workflows.
• Strong opinions on system governance, contribution models, and adoption strategies.
• Experience partnering with platform engineers on implementation, parity, and release cadence.

Responsibilities

• Own the Design System: Lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Hinge Health’s design system. Define and evolve core components, patterns, tokens, and interaction standards used across the product. Ensure the system supports a wide range of surfaces, from core product UI to Agent flows, enterprise templates, and integrated design systems.
• Partner Deeply with Engineering: Collaborate closely with engineers on implementation details, tradeoffs, and system architecture. Influence code-level decisions that affect system consistency and adoption. Help shape tooling, Storybook usage, and contribution workflows so the system is easy to use and maintain.
• Set Standards & Governance: Partner with feature teams through office hours and design reviews. You will help teams navigate patterns the system doesn't yet cover and decide when a design should become a global standard or remain a local solution. Establish clear contribution models, review processes, and decision-making frameworks for system changes. Act as a design system “domain owner,” providing guidance and sign-off on system-level decisions. Document principles, patterns, and rationale so decisions scale beyond individuals.
• Raise the Bar for Design Quality: Identify inconsistencies, duplication, and fragmentation across the product and drive systematic improvements. Balance speed with craft, knowing when to be opinionated and when to enable flexibility. Advocate for system-level thinking across product, design, and engineering.

Benefits

• Participation in our Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), allowing you to acquire company stock via payroll at a 15% discount against the lower market price.
• Comprehensive and inclusive medical coverage and benefit programs for you and your dependents.
• Flexible retirement savings through Traditional or Roth 401(k) investment paths.
• Dedicated lifestyle stipends designed to fuel your professional growth and continuous learning.

What This Job Offers

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