Sr. Product Designer II - Design Systems

📋 Description

• Own and drive the design system roadmap with stakeholder alignment.
• Define and evolve system UX: components, patterns, accessibility, motion.
• Lead token strategy end-to-end (theming, density) with engineering APIs.
• Establish strong governance and lifecycle management for design systems.
• Create implementation-aware specs with edge cases and acceptance criteria; integrate with Figma/Storybook workflows.
• Build design enablement with linting rules, templates, and AI-assisted support.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years in product design shipping and maintaining a design system adopted by multiple product teams.
• Portfolio showcasing design systems mastery; portfolio link required.
• Technical fluency in component-based workflows (Figma libraries and Storybook) with UX constraints.
• Hands-on experience with token pipelines and tooling (CSS variables, semantic tokens) and specs with acceptance criteria.
• Proven accessibility competency (WCAG 2.1 AA) with accessible defaults and patterns.
• Experience using AI/automation to improve delivery speed/quality for design systems.

🎁 Benefits

• Flex First remote work policy details.
• Eligible for new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
• See benefits offerings (Taste of Instacart).