Own and guide the continued evolution of the organization’s design system and establish standards that can be consistently applied across the product.
Define reusable components, patterns, interaction behaviors, visual standards, and design tokens that support scalable product development.
Establish practical processes for creating, reviewing, documenting, and maintaining design system components.
Identify areas of inconsistency, visual debt, outdated patterns, and usability issues across an established software platform.
Develop strategies for modernizing legacy experiences while maintaining continuity and usability for existing users.
Create and maintain design system documentation that provides clear guidance for designers and developers.
Partner with front-end engineers to ensure components and design patterns are implemented accurately and efficiently.
Review implemented experiences and provide guidance when products or features do not align with established design standards.
Design user experiences for complex web-based workflows and applications when new components or patterns are required.
Translate complicated requirements into intuitive user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
Develop reusable interaction patterns that improve usability while reducing duplicated design and development effort.
Establish and maintain standards for typography, spacing, color, layout, iconography, responsive behavior, and other visual elements.
Ensure design decisions support accessibility and inclusive user experiences, with particular attention to WCAG standards.
Work with Product Managers, Engineers, QA, and other stakeholders throughout discovery, design, development, and implementation.
Present design recommendations and explain the reasoning behind design system decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Help product teams understand how and when to use established components and patterns.
Participate in design reviews and provide constructive feedback to promote consistency and quality.
Use customer feedback, usability findings, analytics, and other available information to identify opportunities for product improvement.
Mentor and support other designers in design system practices, accessibility, visual design, and interaction design.
Evaluate new design and prototyping technologies and determine where AI-assisted tools can improve efficiency and exploration.
Use AI responsibly to accelerate design concepts, variations, documentation, and prototypes while applying appropriate human review.
Help establish processes that allow the design system to evolve as the product, technology, and user needs change.
6+ years of experience in UX Design, Product Design, Visual Product Design, Interaction Design, or a related discipline.
Demonstrated experience creating, managing, or evolving a design system used across a complex digital product.
Strong understanding of component-based design, reusable patterns, design tokens, and scalable UI frameworks.
Experience designing for SaaS, enterprise, B2B, or other complex software products.
Proven experience modernizing existing web applications or helping establish consistency across large or mature product environments.
Strong portfolio demonstrating design system work, visual design, interaction design, product modernization, and shipped experiences.
Advanced proficiency with Figma and experience working with component libraries, variants, variables, and design-system workflows.
Experience collaborating with engineers working in component-based front-end environments such as React, Angular, Storybook, or comparable technologies.
Strong understanding of responsive design and modern web interface principles.
Working knowledge of HTML and CSS and an understanding of how design decisions translate into front-end implementation.
Familiarity with accessibility standards, particularly WCAG.
Experience collaborating with Product, Engineering, QA, and other cross-functional teams.
Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and build alignment.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to balance consistency with flexibility and understand when an established pattern should—and should not—be applied.
Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and take ownership of a large area of the product experience.
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