About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Product Designer — Design Systems based in United States.
This is a high-impact design role focused on scaling and evolving a design system across a growing B2B product platform.
Responsibilities
- Scale and evolve the design system, with particular attention to high-traffic and legacy product experiences.
- Audit existing product experiences to identify component gaps, inconsistencies, duplication, and opportunities for consolidation.
- Partner closely with engineers to create scalable, accessible, reusable, and production-ready components.
- Champion usability, accessibility, visual consistency, interaction quality, and design excellence across the product.
- Establish, document, and communicate design-system principles, standards, and key design decisions across the organization.
- Explore and introduce AI-enabled workflows for component discovery, documentation, quality assurance, pattern generation, and design-to-development efficiency.
- Reduce duplication and streamline collaboration between design and engineering through reusable systems and improved workflows.
- Measure and improve design-system adoption, usability, effectiveness, and overall organizational impact.
- Contribute hands-on to product design while balancing flexibility, consistency, scalability, and user needs.
- Serve as a strategic partner to Product Design, Engineering, and Product Management, helping shape a cohesive and scalable product experience.
Requirements
- 4–7 years of product design experience, including significant hands-on experience working with design systems.
- Proven experience building, scaling, maintaining, or evolving a design system within a digital product environment.
- Strong expertise in component-based design, reusable interaction patterns, and systems thinking.
- Advanced proficiency in Figma and familiarity with modern design-system workflows and practices.
- Strong understanding of how design-system components and patterns translate into production code.
- Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with engineers and navigate tradeoffs between flexibility, consistency, maintainability, and scalability.
- Hands-on experience with AI tools and a genuine curiosity about applying AI to design systems and product-development workflows.
- Excellent visual design, interaction design, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong ability to communicate design principles and decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Portfolio demonstrating meaningful, measurable design-system work and its impact on product experiences.
- Experience in fintech, ecommerce, or other complex transactional product environments is a plus.
- Comfortable working in a remote environment and collaborating across multidisciplinary teams.
- Willingness to begin in a six-month contract-to-hire arrangement, with potential conversion to full-time based on mutual fit and business needs.
Conditions
- Compensation: $95/hour.
- Contract-to-hire: Initial six-month contract with the intention to convert to a full-time position based on mutual fit and business needs.
- Remote flexibility: Fully remote role based in the United States.
- Growth opportunity: Opportunity to shape the foundation of a major product experience and become a key partner to Product Design and Engineering.
- AI innovation: Hands-on opportunity to explore emerging AI applications in design systems and design-to-development workflows.
- Collaborative environment: Work closely with experienced Product, Design, and Engineering teams on high-impact initiatives.
- Long-term impact: Build reusable systems and processes that improve product quality and efficiency across the organization.