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Product Designer, Design Systems

Betterhelp • Mountain View, United States of America 🇺🇸

Remote $198,400 - $217,800 Contract Mid-level

BetterHelp is seeking a Contract Design System Designer to lead the creation of an AI-compatible design system and product blueprint, establishing foundations for scalable and consistent design across digital experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Audit existing design assets and component usage to identify gaps and redundancies
  • Build a unified, scalable Figma design system, with tokens, variables, and AI-ready structure for future automation
  • Define foundational elements, typography, color, spacing, iconography, accessibility, with documentation for consistent use
  • Prepare the system for localization and internationalization, ensuring components adapt seamlessly to new markets
  • Introduce processes and frameworks that keep the design system aligned as the product evolves quickly
  • Create and maintain a comprehensive product blueprint capturing key user flows (onboarding, payments, navigation, etc.)
  • Bring together fragmented files and flows into a single source of truth, establishing a full picture of the current experience
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to identify missing areas and progressively document them
  • Partner with engineers to ensure system components map cleanly to code (e.g., React libraries or design tokens)
  • Work closely with designers to drive adoption and streamline workflows
  • Provide clear documentation, usage guidelines, and best practices to enable system scalability
  • Structure the design system for AI-enhanced workflows (e.g., Figma Make AI, generative component creation, and tokenized design)
  • Identify opportunities for automation and AI integration within design ops, documentation, and localization workflows

Requirements

  • 3–6 years in Product or UX/UI design, with direct experience building or maintaining a design system from zero (0→1)
  • Comfortable navigating fast-moving teams and incomplete product documentation, you bring order and clarity to evolving systems
  • Skilled in componentization, design tokens, auto-layout, and variables within Figma
  • Comfortable partnering with front-end engineers to ensure design–dev alignment
  • Experienced in creating structured documentation and scalable guidelines
  • Curious and proactive about AI integration in design tools and workflows (Figma Make AI, design tokens, automation)
  • Familiar with building systems that support multiple languages and regions

Key Skills

  • Componentization
  • Design tokens
  • Auto-layout
  • Variables within Figma
  • Partnership with front-end engineers
  • Structured documentation
  • Scalable guidelines
  • AI integration in design tools and workflows

Benefits

  • The chance to build something that changes lives – and that people love
  • Free BetterHelp accounts for all team members
  • An awesome community of co-workers

About Betterhelp

BetterHelp is on a mission to remove traditional barriers to therapy and make mental health care more accessible to everyone, with a diverse team of licensed clinicians, engineers, product pros, creatives, marketers, and business leaders.

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