UX: Staff Product Designer, Design Systems - Visual

Accountabilities:

• • Own and evolve a three-tier design token architecture spanning global, semantic, and component-specific tokens, ensuring it can support multi-theme, multi-platform, and multi-density requirements.
  • Make and communicate architectural decisions around token naming, tier boundaries, semantic abstraction, flexibility, constraints, and long-term scalability.
  • Lead safe token migration strategies that minimize disruption for downstream teams and establish governance practices that keep consuming teams aligned.
  • Own the system-level visual language across color, typography, spacing, iconography, and motion, ensuring product experiences remain cohesive and distinctive.
  • Serve as the final visual quality bar for the design system, evaluating visual direction and resolving disagreements through clear principles, strong craft, and evidence.
  • Develop design principles and tenets that help designers make consistent visual decisions without requiring extensive alignment for every choice.
  • Lead initiatives to make the token layer machine-readable, including structuring token names and documentation for AI coding tools, MCP integrations, and generative UI systems.
  • Partner with product teams across the organization as an authority on tokens and visual language, helping teams use the system effectively while identifying friction that should inform future evolution.
  • Collaborate closely with engineers to maintain implementation fidelity, understand technical constraints, and advocate credibly for design intent.
  • Contribute to design-system governance, including contribution reviews, quality standards, and policies that prevent token drift across the product platform.
  • Provide Staff-level leadership across multiple projects, identifying high-impact problems, developing solutions, and driving initiatives through to completion with a high degree of autonomy.

  Requirements

  • Demonstrated hands-on ownership of a multi-tier token architecture at enterprise scale, ideally within a multi-product or multi-platform environment.
  • Proven experience making consequential token architecture decisions involving naming conventions, tier structures, semantic abstraction, and breaking-change management.
  • Expert-level visual design craft with a systems-oriented understanding of color, typography, spacing, iconography, and motion as interconnected elements of a unified visual language.
  • Experience evolving a mature design language while balancing brand evolution, system consistency, scalability, and stakeholder needs.
  • A portfolio demonstrating high-quality visual product outcomes resulting from design-system and token work, not only technically sound architecture.
  • Ability to establish and apply design principles or tenets to ambiguous visual challenges while reducing unnecessary alignment overhead.
  • Working knowledge of machine-readable design systems, including W3C DTCG token formats, semantic naming, and documentation structures suitable for AI tool ingestion.
  • Familiarity with the evolution of design-token standards and tooling, including Tokens Studio, Style Dictionary, Figma Variables API, and emerging MCP and AI integrations.
  • Curiosity about AI-powered design tooling combined with strong judgment about where human design decisions and deliberate system constraints remain essential.
  • Staff-level autonomy, strategic thinking, and the ability to identify problems, propose solutions, and drive execution without close direction.
  • Strong understanding of engineering constraints and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers on implementation fidelity.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex design-system architecture to non-specialist stakeholders and senior product leaders.
  • Proven experience serving as a visual quality bar for a system used by many designers, including the ability to navigate disagreement while maintaining trust and strong relationships.
  • Experience working cross-functionally with product, engineering, and design partners and a strong understanding of business and product strategy.

  Benefits

  • Annual cash compensation range of $190,100–$304,200 USD.
  • Some roles may be eligible to participate in an equity plan through restricted stock units (RSUs).
  • Remote work opportunity within the United States, with flexibility across home and office environments.
  • Benefits and perks designed to support employees as part of the overall compensation package.
  • Opportunities for professional growth, design leadership, and long-term thought leadership within a large product organization.
  • Participation in in-person product events and team gatherings designed to strengthen connection and collaboration.
  • Regional in-person onboarding requirements may apply depending on the team and role.
  • Opportunity to influence a large-scale design system spanning multiple products, platforms, and emerging AI experiences.
  • High-impact collaboration with product designers, engineers, product leaders, and other cross-functional partners.