Senior Designer Technologist, Design Systems

📋 Description

• Own and improve core system infra: repos, publishing workflows, and component playgrounds.
• Evolve token workflows, theming, and distribution of tokens into product codebases.
• Reduce system drift by strengthening design-to-code feedback loops and guardrails.
• Contribute to components with maintainable patterns, accessibility defaults, cross-platform.
• Build internal tools: Figma plugins, generators, PR/CI checks, and lint rules.
• Model system guidance for checks, in-tool guidance, and automation.
• Instrument and iterate: measure adoption and quality; evolve tooling from usage.
• Use AI-assisted workflows to speed audits and repetitive tasks with strong review.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience across product design and/or front-end engineering, including shipping and maintaining a design system adopted by multiple product teams.
• Portfolio demonstrating design systems mastery (components, patterns, tokens, governance) and cross-platform consistency; portfolio link required.
• Advanced proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and a modern front-end framework (React or similar).
• Proven experience delivering internal tools (e.g., Figma plugins, scripts, CLIs, CI automations) with testing, maintainability, and observability where appropriate.
• Fluency in Figma at a systems level: component architecture, variants/props strategy, naming conventions, library structure, and publishing/versioning.
• Strong understanding of design tokens (semantic vs. primitive), theming/density, and mapping token decisions to UI intent.
• Demonstrated ability to reason about component UX—including anatomy, states, edge cases, responsive behavior, motion—and to establish accessibility defaults.
• Hands-on experience working in shared component codebases/monorepos with multi-team contribution models.
• Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development or design workflows to reduce toil and accelerate delivery with appropriate judgment, review, and security considerations.
• Experience driving system adoption through metrics, deprecation/migration programs, and cross-functional enablement.
• Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible "Flex First" remote work policy.
• New hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
• Regular in-person events to build community.
• Competitive benefits aligned to location.