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Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

Ladders 🇺🇸 United States of America

$130,000 - $160,000 Full-time Senior

Lead the strategy and evolution of the design system, specifically extending it for AI-driven product patterns and components. Partner with cross-functional teams to establish governance, promote adoption, and mentor designers on systems thinking.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the strategy and evolution of the design system, specifically extending it for AI-driven product patterns and components. Partner with cross-functional teams to establish governance, promote adoption, and mentor designers on systems thinking.

Requirements

  • Requires over 7 years of product design experience within complex B2B SaaS environments and deep expertise in scalable design systems. Must be proficient in Figma, accessibility principles, and have a proven track record of influencing stakeholders and mentoring others.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • Health & wellness stipend
  • Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
  • Commuter benefits
  • Family planning benefits
  • Matching 401(k) contribution
  • Flexible PTO policy
  • 80 hours of sick time
  • 11 company-paid holidays
  • Virtual team-building activities

Key Skills

product design design systems Figma accessibility principles systems thinking mentorship stakeholder influence B2B SaaS environments scalable design

About Ladders

We lead the leaders. Ladder’s community of 10 mm leading professionals come to us to be inspired, grow in their careers, and get ahead in their professional lives. We focus on the $100K+ job market, representing 25% of all jobs and about 50% of income in the US & Canada. We build data-driven tools, marketplaces, news and entertainment products for our growing audience, and the companies, recruiters, and advertisers that want to reach them. We work best with people who enjoy using their talents, commitment and hard work to achieve great successes for millions of real life users through products that impact their careers. We are deeply technology-driven -- about half the company are engineers, technical product people or product designers -- but we never build technology for technology’s sake. We’re always trying to connect our efforts to the good it can do in people’s lives.

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