Product Designer

Contribute to the evolution of a scalable design system that improves product consistency, accessibility, and usability. Collaborate with product teams to gather feedback, identify gaps, and shape features that meet their needs.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the evolution of a scalable design system that improves product consistency, accessibility, and usability
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure smooth implementation and quality alignment between design tokens, components, and code
• Collaborate with product teams (design + engineering) who consume the system to gather feedback, identify gaps, and shape features that meet their needs
• Track and report adoption metrics, using insights to drive system improvements and advocate for system use across the organization
• Proactively identify and address usability problems and opportunities across the platform through hands-on usage of our products
• Bring a modern, fresh perspective to the UI—introducing design patterns, visual styles, and interaction approaches that elevate the overall experience
• Create, maintain, and improve system documentation in a clear, consumable format for designers and engineers
• Participate in user testing and validation of components, ensuring accessibility, responsiveness, and adherence to UX best practices
• Work effectively in a fast-paced, iterative environment, balancing quality with speed to deliver value quickly
• Co-lead initiatives with Design, Product Management, and Engineering to align the system with business goals, technical constraints, and user needs
• Mentor peers on design system best practices and influence product teams to take a systematic approach to design

Requirements

• 2-4 years of experience designing and shipping digital products and design systems
• Training and comfort using the tools and practices of HCD, UX, and Design Systems – Figma, Zeroheight, Storybook, GitHub
• Demonstrated success incorporating WCAG accessibility practices and tools (e.g. Stark) into componentry and tokens
• Comfortable using AI tools to streamline workflow while exercising a discerning eye to edit and refine outputs
• Experience participating in the product development process as an equal partner to Product Managers and Engineering
• Demonstrated systems thinker, with a broad and holistic approach to understand how all the pieces connect together
• An understanding of how research, data, heuristics and design sense play into decision making
• Experience designing componentry and collaborating with Engineering through the end-to-end process
• Proven ability to manage multiple design requests in a timely fashion, with competing priorities and deadlines
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate asynchronously and with teams across time zones
• Fluent in conversational and written English communication

Key Skills

• Familiarity with device screen sizes and responsive grid principles
• Familiarity with frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.)
• Inclination to tinker and experiment with the goal of improving and scaling workflows
• Experience designing for variable data and multiple form-factors
• Ability to create usage guides and annotations to be used cross-functionally
• Interaction design sensibility for micro-interactions and motion