Staff Systems Designer, Language
$460,000–$710,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Serve as the centralized authority for language standards across Consumer, translating brand and editorial guidelines into objective, systematic rules that guide human authors and AI agents. Own taxonomy and terminology schemas to ensure semantic consistency across components, localization pipelines, and dynamic content generators. Establish authoritative logic for reusable content patterns and author specifications structurally embedded in Hawkins components. Build plug-and-play extension models allowing decentralized domains to apply unique voice requirements within shared guardrails. Partner with localization, legal, and accessibility to translate compliance requirements into system-level design constraints and coordinate the release lifecycle of encoded schemas.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience as a Content Systems leader
- demonstrated track record of owning and scaling a content standards function
- experience creating programmatic style guides
- evaluation frameworks
- reusable UI patterns
- rule-based terminology systems
- experience creating systems that became the authoritative source of truth for an entire organization
- Proven track record of navigating competing organizational priorities across product, legal, brand, and localization
- Direct experience with LLM orchestration
- prompt engineering
- AI-assisted writing workflows
- pragmatic point of view on how to programmatically constrain generative models so outputs remain safe and on-brand
- Fluency at the intersection of editorial craft and technical system infrastructure
- Deep understanding of localization
- Deep understanding of accessibility as structural constraints
- experience building core frameworks that naturally scale across languages, regions, and assistive technology contexts
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