Senior Product Designer — Design Systems

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Product Designer — Design Systems based in United States.

This is a senior product design opportunity focused on scaling and evolving a design system across a growing digital product platform. You will help modernize legacy experiences, establish reusable patterns, and create a more consistent and accessible product experience. The role combines strategic systems thinking with hands-on design execution and close collaboration with Product, Design, and Engineering teams. You will play a key role in strengthening the connection between design and development while improving how teams discover, adopt, and contribute to the system. A major focus will be exploring AI-enabled workflows that can accelerate component discovery, documentation, quality assurance, and pattern generation. You will have meaningful influence over design standards, product quality, and the efficiency of cross-functional teams. This role is well suited to a systems-minded designer who is comfortable navigating complexity, advocating for quality, and turning design principles into scalable solutions.

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Accountabilities

• Scale and continuously evolve the design system, prioritizing high-traffic and legacy product experiences.

• Audit existing interfaces to identify component gaps, inconsistencies, duplication, and opportunities for consolidation.

• Design reusable components and interaction patterns that support scalable product development.

• Partner closely with engineers to ensure components are accessible, production-ready, and accurately translated from design into code.

• Champion usability, accessibility, visual consistency, and overall product quality across the platform.

• Establish, document, and communicate design system principles, standards, and design decisions across the organization.

• Explore and implement AI-enabled workflows for component discovery, documentation, quality checks, and pattern generation.

• Identify opportunities to reduce duplication and improve efficiency across Product Design and Engineering.

• Monitor system adoption and usability, using insights to continuously improve the effectiveness of the design system.

• Collaborate with Product Management, Product Design, and Engineering to balance flexibility, consistency, scalability, and business needs.

Requirements

• 4–7 years of professional product design experience, including significant hands-on experience with design systems.

• Proven track record of building, scaling, or evolving a design system within a digital product environment.

• Strong expertise in component-based design, reusable interaction patterns, and scalable design practices.

• Advanced proficiency with Figma and modern design system workflows.

• Strong understanding of how design system components and patterns translate into production code.

• Demonstrated experience partnering closely with engineers and resolving tradeoffs between flexibility, consistency, maintainability, and scalability.

• Hands-on experience using AI tools, with genuine curiosity about their potential to improve product design and design system workflows.

• Excellent visual design, interaction design, communication, collaboration, and systems-thinking skills.

• Ability to think strategically while remaining highly hands-on in design execution.

• Strong portfolio demonstrating meaningful contributions to design systems and scalable product experiences.

• Experience in fintech, ecommerce, B2B software, or other complex digital product environments is a plus.

• Comfortable working independently, navigating ambiguity, and influencing cross-functional stakeholders.

Benefits

• 6-month contract-to-hire opportunity, with potential conversion to a full-time position based on mutual fit and business needs.

• Contract rate of $95 per hour.

• Opportunity to shape the foundation of a large-scale product experience and influence design standards across the organization.

• High-impact collaboration with Product Design, Engineering, and Product Management teams.

• Hands-on exposure to AI-enabled design workflows and emerging approaches to design system automation.

• Opportunity to modernize legacy experiences and improve consistency, accessibility, and usability across the product.

• Significant ownership and influence over the evolution and adoption of a company-wide design system.

• Environment that values strategic thinking, experimentation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

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