Principal Systems Designer

Summary

Join Workleap as a Design Lead and spearhead the creation of a unified, modern design system for our employee experience platforms. You will define and evolve design patterns, principles, and components, collaborating closely with engineers and designers across multiple products. Responsibilities include designing reusable and inclusive solutions, supporting designers in system adoption, and continuously improving design workflows. The ideal candidate possesses deep experience building and scaling design systems in multi-product environments, expertise in interaction design and accessibility, and strong collaboration skills. You will be embedded within a team of engineers dedicated to frontend foundations and shared services, working closely with product designers and content strategists. The role involves modernizing foundations, rethinking components, and improving tools and workflows to support a unified, AI-ready product platform.

Requirements

• Deep experience building and scaling design systems in multi-product environments
• Expertise in interaction design, accessibility, and inclusive UI patterns
• Strong collaboration with engineers, with a focus on systems that work in the real world
• Fluency in design tools like Figma, and comfort shaping documentation and tooling
• A passion for empowering others, simplifying complexity, and improving quality at scale
• Experience mentoring, leading by example, and being a strong design partner
• A curiosity for emerging UX patterns, especially in AI-driven and adaptive experiences
• Excellent communication skills — you make ideas, decisions, and systems feel clear and approachable

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve our shared design system — patterns, principles, components, and guidelines — across multiple products and brands
• Design flexible, reusable, and inclusive solutions that scale across teams, use cases, and platforms
• Work closely with developers to bring the system to life through tooling, documentation, theming, and collaboration
• Support designers across Workleap and ShareGate — helping them adopt the system, use it well, and focus on what matters most
• Continuously improve how we work — reducing friction, increasing speed, and scaling design quality through better systems and workflows
• Bring a future-ready mindset — designing patterns and frameworks that support AI-powered features, predictive UIs, and new interaction models
• Contribute daily to improve UX practices across teams through feedback, office hours, and other rituals
• Lead system reviews with cross-team designers
• Identify opportunities, clear blockers, and support team success
• Sketch a new pattern for the design system
• Pair with a developer to refine and implement it
• Update documentation to keep it current and clear
• Align on priorities with product leadership

Benefits

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