Staff / Principal Product Designer, Design Systems

📋 Description

• Own the design system and its governance in code
• Define architecture, tokens, primitives, and motion language
• Collaborate with frontend guild, engineers, and design team as equals
• Set the craft bar and build systems enabling scale
• Shipped design systems used by 80+ engineers/PMs
• Lead end-to-end surfaces including research, QA, and shipping

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of product design experience with design systems ownership
• Designs in code mindset; comfortable building beyond Figma
• Genuine design taste with strong typography, motion, and branding
• Systems thinking, primitives, edge cases, governance, and tokens
• Ability to ship; fast, but high-quality with critique
• Owns craft and can point to visual language you built

🎁 Benefits

• In-person role in New York City
• Collaborative, AI-assisted design workflow