Sr Staff Product/Principal Designer : Design Systems (Net Sec)

Lead efforts to modernize and scale Palo Alto Networks' design system for an enterprise-scale platform. Responsibilities include designing components, UI patterns, and a data visualization library; collaborating with engineering to integrate systems via MCP and ensure code parity with Figma; utilizing GenAI to automate workflows; documenting design system usage in Figma/Storybook; evangelizing adoption of the design system across teams; making data-informed design decisions from concept to implementation using usability testing and customer feedback; enabling multi-theme support with tokens and defining scalable governance models for design systems in production environments. This role emphasizes collaboration with designers, product managers, and engineers to reduce handoff friction and deliver polished, scalable templates and experiences for Fortune 500 and national security contexts.