Senior UX Designer, Design System

- Define, maintain, and evolve components, patterns, and interaction standards that serve the full product surface.

- Partner closely with Engineering on system implementation, architecture decisions, and handoff processes.

- Proactively identify gaps by monitoring how the system is used across products, and close those gaps before they become workarounds.

- Reduce redundant design and development work by standardizing the most common solutions.

- Support design and engineering teams in adopting the system effectively, through documentation, reviews, and direct collaboration.

- Govern the contribution process: how changes get proposed, reviewed, and approved.

- Maintain a healthy system backlog and triage incoming requests with clear prioritization.

- 7+ years of experience in UX/product design, with at least 4 years focused on design systems

- Proven expertise working with Figma variables and component architecture, including how they map to coded token structures.

- Experience dealing with accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) and how they inform component design and documentation.

- Strong systems thinking; you naturally see patterns, spot inconsistencies, and design for reuse.

- Demonstrated experience building and scaling a design system, ideally at a product company with multiple teams.

- Ability to balance consistency with flexibility; you know when to standardize and when to leave room for product judgment.

- Comfort working closely with Engineering, including familiarity with how design tokens, component libraries, and handoff tooling work in practice.

- AI-first mindset by proactively integrating LLMs and automation into the design system workflow to reduce manual friction, while maintaining a critical eye for quality and system integrity

- Clear communicator and cross-team influencer - you can get alignment from designers, engineers, and PMs without authority.

- Detail-oriented and reliable; teams depend on the system being accurate and well-documented.

- Comfortable in a governance role: setting standards, running reviews, and saying no when the system integrity is at stake.

- Hands-on experience with design token pipelines and tooling (e.g., Style Dictionary, Theo, or equivalent).

- Experience with component library tooling, including writing or reviewing component documentation at the code layer.

- Familiarity with version control (Git) and how design system changes move through a development workflow.