Principal Product Designer - Design Systems

Expedia Group seeks a Principal Designer to advance the design system, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and scalability across their portfolio of brands.

Responsibilities

• Design the next generation of Expedia’s multi-brand design system, creating a shared set of elements that are highly brand flexible.
• Contribute to the evolution of Expedia’s design system by creating components, tokens, and patterns that scale across brands and platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering partners to deliver reliable libraries, tooling, and documentation.
• Ensure the system reflects accessibility, inclusivity, and localization standards, supporting diverse travelers across the globe.
• Champion design craft and quality by raising the bar for both visual and interaction design standards.
• Partner with product, engineering, brand, and marketing teams to encourage adoption and alignment.
• Mentor designers and advocate for systems thinking across the design organization.
• Translate system strategy into actionable, usable solutions that empower teams and accelerate delivery.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in product, visual, or systems design with a portfolio showing impact at scale.
• Deep expertise in design systems and cross-platform frameworks with hands-on experience creating and evolving component libraries.
• Strong craft in visual and interaction design, balancing brand expression and usability.
• Experience collaborating with engineering to deliver production-ready components and documentation.
• Figma expertise is preferred.
• Ability to influence adoption and drive consistency in a large, matrixed organization.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, bringing clarity and inspiring confidence.
• A systems thinker who thrives in complexity but delivers solutions that are clear, usable, and scalable.

Key Skills

• Design systems and cross-platform frameworks
• Visual and interaction design
• Collaboration with engineering
• Figma
• Communication and storytelling
• Systems thinking

Benefits

• Full benefits package including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model, and career development resources.
• Medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership.