Senior Product Designer (Design Systems)
About this role
Design systems have evolved beyond component libraries and style guides. Done well, they improve product quality, accelerate delivery, strengthen collaboration between design and engineering, and create consistency across teams, products, and experiences. We're looking for a Senior Product Designer with deep expertise in design systems to help organizations build, evolve, and scale these foundations. This is a consulting role. You'll work directly with clients to assess existing systems, define future-state approaches, build scalable foundations, and help teams adopt better ways of working. We need someone who can do the work, explain the work, and help others succeed with it.
What You'll Do
Assess and evaluate existing design systems, processes, and operating models
Help clients define design system strategies, roadmaps, governance models, and adoption plans
Design and build scalable systems including components, patterns, foundations, and documentation
Partner closely with engineering teams to ensure systems work effectively across design and code
Improve consistency, quality, accessibility, and scalability across products and experiences
Use AI and emerging technologies to improve how systems are created, maintained, and evolved
Guide teams through implementation and adoption challenges
Help clients understand what good looks like and how to get there
Contribute to thought leadership, accelerators, and reusable methods that strengthen Product Studio's capabilities
Qualifications
What We're Looking For
Deep expertise in design systems and scalable product design
Experience building, evolving, and governing design systems used across multiple teams, products, or business units
Strong understanding of component architecture, design tokens, accessibility, and cross-platform consistency
Ability to work comfortably with both designers and engineers
Strong consulting and communication skills
Ability to explain complex concepts clearly and influence stakeholders at different levels of an organization
Experience helping teams adopt and operationalize design systems
Extensive experience using AI as part of your day-to-day practice and exploring how it changes design system creation and management
Curiosity, pragmatism, and a bias toward action
A portfolio that demonstrates both strategic thinking and hands-on execution
Enterprise Context Matters
Most of our clients are large organizations with multiple teams, products, stakeholders, and technical constraints. Experience working in enterprise, B2B, technology, software, consulting, or platform environments is highly valuable. We're looking for people who understand that successful design systems are as much about adoption, governance, and collaboration as they are about components and tooling.
AI and Emerging Technology
The way design systems are created, maintained, documented, and governed is changing rapidly. We're looking for someone who is actively building with AI and exploring how these technologies improve quality, consistency, speed, and scalability. Part of this role is helping clients understand how AI is changing design systems and how they can take advantage of those changes.
Additional Information
Portfolio Requirements
A portfolio is required. Please include examples that demonstrate:
Design systems you helped create or evolve
Your specific contributions and decisions
Adoption, governance, or operational improvements
Collaboration with engineering teams
Scalability, accessibility, and consistency challenges you solved
How AI has influenced your workflows, methods, or outcomes
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