Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

Summary

Join our entrepreneurial and fast-paced team as the Staff Product Designer, where you'll lead the design side of our design system, collaborate cross-functionally, and focus on long-term strategy for the design system and AgencyAnalytics web platform.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in product design, with a strong focus on design systems and front-end development collaboration
• Interaction/UI Design Expertise: A strong understanding of common patterns, best practices, and trade-offs in interaction design and UI design, to ensure that our design language and DS deliver exceptional user experience through excellent usability
• Design Systems Expertise: Proven experience owning or heavily contributing to the evolution of design systems in a fast-paced, product-driven environment
• Front-End Knowledge: Familiarity with front-end development processes and constraints (e.g., CSS, flexbox, spacing, padding/margin), ensuring seamless collaboration with developers
• Strategic & Hands-On Balance: Ability to balance strategic thinking about design systems with hands-on component creation and refinement
• Systems Thinking: Strong ability to think in systems and develop scalable solutions that balance business goals with user needs
• Collaboration: Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience working closely with engineers, product managers, and other designers
• Initiative & Ownership: Proactive and self-directed, with the ability to take ownership of large projects and deliver impactful results
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to articulate complex ideas to diverse stakeholders and lead training sessions for team members
• Attention to Detail: Keen attention to design details and a passion for crafting polished, user-friendly interfaces
• Tool Expertise: Familiarity with Figma and Storybook

Responsibilities

• Own and Evolve the Design System: Lead the design side of our design system, ensuring it reflects our design language and principles, meets product and engineering needs, and scales with our platform's growth
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with the design team, front-end developers, and the App Platform Team to align on component needs, design standards, and implementation best practices
• Hands-On Design Work: Spend 70% of your time actively improving the component library, creating and refining reusable components, and documenting guidelines for component usage and design language
• Strategic Input: Spend 30% of your time focusing on long-term strategy for the design system and AgencyAnalytics web platform, including governance suggestions, identifying areas for improvement, and evolving our design language to meet the needs of the business
• Documentation & Governance: Develop and maintain thorough documentation for the design system, providing clear guidelines for its use across design and development teams. Lead the development of governance processes for component updates and changes
• Training & Communication: Take the lead in training and mentoring other designers and engineers on the design system, ensuring its consistent application across the platform. Proactively communicate updates and best practices
• Front-End Development Collaboration: While not expected to code, work closely with developers to understand technical constraints, provide design input, and ensure high-quality implementation of design components
• Continuous Improvement: Once the design system matures, take on other initiatives such as auditing and refining interaction patterns or redesigning system-wide UX elements (e.g., notifications, and error messages)