Senior Product Designer — Design Systems

Accountabilities • Scale and evolve the design system, with particular attention to high-traffic and legacy product experiences.

• Audit existing product experiences to identify component gaps, inconsistencies, duplication, and opportunities for consolidation.

• Partner closely with engineers to create scalable, accessible, reusable, and production-ready components.

• Champion usability, accessibility, visual consistency, interaction quality, and design excellence across the product.

• Establish, document, and communicate design-system principles, standards, and key design decisions across the organization.

• Explore and introduce AI-enabled workflows for component discovery, documentation, quality assurance, pattern generation, and design-to-development efficiency.

• Reduce duplication and streamline collaboration between design and engineering through reusable systems and improved workflows.

• Measure and improve design-system adoption, usability, effectiveness, and overall organizational impact.

• Contribute hands-on to product design while balancing flexibility, consistency, scalability, and user needs.

• Serve as a strategic partner to Product Design, Engineering, and Product Management, helping shape a cohesive and scalable product experience.

Requirements

• 4–7 years of product design experience, including significant hands-on experience working with design systems.

• Proven experience building, scaling, maintaining, or evolving a design system within a digital product environment.

• Strong expertise in component-based design, reusable interaction patterns, and systems thinking.

• Advanced proficiency in Figma and familiarity with modern design-system workflows and practices.

• Strong understanding of how design-system components and patterns translate into production code.

• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with engineers and navigate tradeoffs between flexibility, consistency, maintainability, and scalability.

• Hands-on experience with AI tools and a genuine curiosity about applying AI to design systems and product-development workflows.

• Excellent visual design, interaction design, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

• Strong ability to communicate design principles and decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Portfolio demonstrating meaningful, measurable design-system work and its impact on product experiences.

• Experience in fintech, ecommerce, or other complex transactional product environments is a plus.

• Comfortable working in a remote environment and collaborating across multidisciplinary teams.

• Willingness to begin in a six-month contract-to-hire arrangement, with potential conversion to full-time based on mutual fit and business needs.

Benefits

• Compensation:  $95/hour.

• Contract-to-hire:  Initial six-month contract with the intention to convert to a full-time position based on mutual fit and business needs.

• Remote flexibility:  Fully remote role based in the United States.

• Growth opportunity:  Opportunity to shape the foundation of a major product experience and become a key partner to Product Design and Engineering.

• AI innovation:  Hands-on opportunity to explore emerging AI applications in design systems and design-to-development workflows.

• Collaborative environment:  Work closely with experienced Product, Design, and Engineering teams on high-impact initiatives.

• Long-term impact:  Build reusable systems and processes that improve product quality and efficiency across the organization.

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