Staff Product Designer, Patterns

Lead the stewardship and evolution of design patterns and component libraries to ensure cohesive user experiences. Partner with cross-functional teams to empower them in leveraging best-in-class design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Drive System Quality: Lead the stewardship, evolution, and adoption of our core design patterns, component libraries, and gestalt subsystems—ensuring cohesive, delightful, and accessible user experiences at scale
• Partner Horizontally: Act as a strategic advisor and a hands-on partner to product, engineering, and design teams across Personalisation and core surfaces, empowering them to leverage best-in-class patterns and ship with confidence
• Advance Systemic Thinking: Apply methodical, systematic approaches to pattern creation: balancing product usability, craft, accessibility, and business needs—with input from a wide range of stakeholders
• Prototype & Technologize: Rapidly visualize, prototype, and validate new ideas; translate abstract solutions into practical, scalable patterns using Figma, code, AI, or whatever is needed to inspire clarity and adoption
• Uphold and Elevate Craft: Conduct quality audits, review flows and handoffs, and directly contribute hands-on design when needed—always advocating for the highest standards
• Mentor & Scale Impact: Inspire and guide other designers in craft, systemic thinking, and best practices through critique, guidance, and sharing your expertise across teams
• Champion Accessibility & Inclusion: Ensure our design systems support diverse user needs and raise the bar on inclusion and accessibility from the ground up
• Communicate & Influence: Clearly articulate your design thinking, rationale, and vision—presenting work to teams, leaders, and executives, and rallying consensus

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in design, a related field or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience in product design, with significant time spent driving or evolving design systems or pattern libraries
• Portfolio demonstrating polished interface design, systemic thinking, component-based UIs, and tangible influence across large organizations
• Track record in staff/principal-level roles, influencing horizontally, upholding design quality, and partnering cross-functionally—ideally in large-scale consumer or platform environments
• Design technologist mindset: Comfortable experimenting with Figma prototypes, AI, and (optionally) front-end code; curious and opinionated about technical feasibility, accessibility, and how we can streamline design workflows and processes through systems and tools

Key Skills

• Product design
• Design systems and pattern libraries
• Figma prototypes and front-end code
• Systemic thinking and component-based UIs
• Design technologist mindset

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Multiple health benefit options
• Responsible Time Off
• 401(k) matching
• Opportunities and support for major career growth