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Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

Zip 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America

Hybrid $150,000 - $200,000 Full-time Lead

The designer will lead the design systems, working closely with the frontend platform team to evolve design systems and patterns. They will also design best-in-class experiences for platform features and ensure high-quality user interfaces.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to Zip’s vision and how to reimagine the procurement space with elegant, modern, interfaces
  • Grow and mature Design System capabilities and toolkits by pioneering new foundations, components, practices and methodologies
  • Develop a long-term strategy for design systems at Zip and collaborate closely with engineering and design to ensure components are implemented correctly
  • Drive requirements gathering with designers and engineers to build a well-rounded understanding of different product areas to help design of flexible and extensible frameworks, patterns, and components
  • Set a high quality standard for user interfaces across the board, inventorying inconsistencies and proposing the necessary improvements
  • Develop usage guidelines that teach designers and engineers how to use the components and patterns across design and code
  • Collaborate with other designers to craft and maintain a holistic product vision across Zip’s suite of products
  • Evangelize the Design System’s importance across the company in presentations, meetings, and other forums

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience as a design systems or product designer at a digital product company
  • Expertise in Figma, Storybook, WCAG compliance, and other design systems tools
  • A foundational understanding of HTML/CSS, how to design across multiple breakpoints, devices, and locales, and the ability to talk with developers about the implementation details
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating samples of best practice Design System deliverables
  • Exceptionally strong visual, UI and interaction skills
  • Highly organized & systematic thinker with experience in driving a design process and working collaboratively to solve problems

Key Skills

  • Design systems
  • Product design
  • Figma
  • Storybook
  • WCAG compliance
  • HTML/CSS
  • Visual design
  • UI design
  • Interaction design

Benefits

  • Start-up equity
  • Health, vision & dental coverage
  • Catered lunches & dinners for TO employees
  • Team building events & happy hours
  • Flexible PTO
  • Apple equipment plus home office budget

About Zip

Zip is the world’s leading AI-powered procurement orchestration platform, empowering businesses to accelerate the procurement process, mitigate risk, and drive growth by offering a single front door to unify the teams, tasks, and tools involved in working with suppliers. With Zip, businesses can maximize employee adoption of purchasing policies and increase spend visibility and control. As the leading solution for optimizing business spend, Zip’s AI-powered platform is trusted by hundreds of leading enterprises worldwide, including AMD, Anthropic, Arm, Canva, Coinbase, Discover, Dollar Tree, HP, Instacart, Lyft, Northwestern Mutual, Pinterest, Prudential, Reddit, Sephora, Snowflake, Sprouts Farmers Market, and Toast to maximize the ROI of every dollar. Zip in October of 2024 secured a $190 million Series D at a $2.2 billion valuation marking the largest investment in procurement technology in over two decades. Zip’s impact has been transformative: over $107 billion in customer spend

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