Product Designer, Design Systems
$160,000–$260,000 year
RemoteUnited States or San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Drive design ↔ engineering workflow improvements by treating seams between functions as design problems, establishing shared language and clearer handoffs. Own component craft and system coherence across iOS, Android, and web, pressure-testing patterns in real product work rather than just spec'ing. Build the semantic layer that scales, defining naming, usage rules, and decision guidance so the right choice is easy for designers, engineers, and agents. Set adoption standards and documentation workflows, including AI-assisted checks for consistency and accessibility. Establish agent-first systems and workflows that help humans and AI agents use the system correctly without tribal knowledge. Set the operating cadence with design and engineering to maintain system coherence and drive adoption.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years in product design
- real depth in design systems built on tokens, component APIs, and a single source of truth in code
- experience building a design system
- contributing meaningfully to components/patterns/tokens, governance, adoption, and the messy realities of getting it used
- systems thinker mindset
- ability to defend taste and pinpoint what is off or right
- clear communication and cross-functional drive
- autonomy and end-to-end ownership
- fluency with AI in craft
- accessibility and scale mindset
Desired Qualifications
- Comfort building or changing components in code (Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, or web)
- Shipped consumer-scale mobile products across many markets/locales
- Built a design system engineers actually used — and that outlasted your time on the team
- A point of view on where design-to-code and agent workflows are heading, and what's still broken
- Experience in language learning, education, or another domain where cross-cultural nuance shapes the product
Hiring someone like this?
Get your role in front of qualified candidates on Sorce.