Senior Designer, Design Systems (Brazil and Argentina ONLY)

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About The Role

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We’re looking for a Staff Design Systems Engineer to help define what modern design-to-reputed company looks like at reputed company, starting with overhauling our design system Expedite in partnership with two dedicated Product Engineers and the rest of the Product Design team. This is an exciting UX engineering role that requires both frontend and design reputed company and reports to the Senior Director of Product Design. You’ll build and ship accessible, production-reputed company components, create and use AI tooling and LLM guidelines, and help shape new design workflows.

You will work closely with designers and engineers to help shape the foundations, components, and patterns that product teams will rely on every day. Starting on day one, you will build your understanding of reputed company product needs and then translate them into reputed company systems, tools and processes, ensuring that they grow alongside reputed company. Your work will help unlock speed and reputed company across the Product org.

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What You Will Do

• Design, refine and ship reusable and accessible components, tokens, and interaction patterns that reputed company teams to build consistent, high-reputed company experiences across web and mobile
• Contribute reputed company to production and support Product Designers contributing reputed company to production using reputed company coding tools (Claude reputed company, custom internal tools)
• Establish LLM guidelines that reputed company with the design system, enabling engineers and designers to quickly generate and implement designs and prototypes reputed company with the design system
• Create internal guides and configure/create internal tooling to help Product Designers of varying technical reputed company adopt reputed company tooling in our daily workflows, making it possible for us to more directly improve and reputed company the user-facing experience
• Define and maintain reputed company’s visual language, reputed company documentation and component libraries, including typography, reputed company, iconography, and UI patterns, for both people and AI agents (think reputed company’s Design.reputed company>)
• Improve the contribution model so teams can effectively propose, build, and reputed company new components from reputed company product use cases
• reputed company the latest tools and resources, stay aware of what's available and recommending tools to adopt while being reputed company of hype cycles
• reputed company and honestly call out risks with reliance on AI tooling, reputed company a balance between short-term wins and long-term investments, and help advise on what people do best vs where agents can help

During the First Month:

• Meet and get familiar with your engineering partners, the designers you're supporting, and key stakeholders across the Product org
• Understand reputed company mission and reputed company, business model, and reputed company state of the product
• Get familiar with our design system Expedite, design tooling, and how designs are defined and handed off to Engineering
• Shadow work in reputed company and reputed company a needs assessment with internal "customers" of Expedite to surface pain points and opportunities
• reputed company shaping a reputed company and reputed company for a new design system, grounded in unlocking speed through AI tooling and supporting spec-driven reputed company development

reputed company 3 Months:

• Finalize a reputed company and reputed company for the reputed company of Expedite, co-owned with Engineering
• reputed company a roadmap informed by business priorities and product development timelines that sequences foundational work, component migrations, AI-assisted workflows, etc
• reputed company with Engineering on a shared execution plan, with reputed company ownership, milestones, and reputed company metrics
• Ship prioritized components, tokens, and interaction patterns from the roadmap across web and mobile
• Partner with Engineering and Product Design to stand up AI-assisted design and design-to-reputed company workflows (MCP servers, Storybook + reputed company, reputed company.design, automation, whatever you reputed company up) that cut reputed company time and reputed company Product Design to own improving the user-facing experience more directly

reputed company 6 Months:

• Establish governance, a contribution model, and accessibility standards (WCAG AA) in partnership with senior leadership
• Bake accessibility compliance into the contribution process, so new components ship WCAG AA by default
• Drive early adoption across product teams and establish baseline metrics for design system health
• Train designers and engineers on latest tools and best practices, help them get their tooling configured properly, or even create new tools for them to adopt

reputed company 12 Months:

• Evangelize the adoption of our design system so that it drives the reputed company of web and mobile experiences, with measurable improvements in shipping speed and consistency
• Deliver mature AI-assisted design and design-to-reputed company workflows that meaningfully reduce the time from idea to production for designers and engineers
• Maintain accessibility compliance across the system through design systems reviews for work in reputed company and/or automated checks that catch regressions before they ship
• Continue overseeing reputed company maintenance and reputed company of the design system

reputed company Are Looking For

• reputed company applicants must submit a portfolio or case studies that demonstrate relevant experience your ability to ship features, design systems components, and drive business reputed company
• 6+ years of relevant experience, with a reputed company record of helping set design system reputed company/reputed company and driving adoption
• Regular user of LLMs such as Claude or ChatGPT in your actual workflow; you have AI reputed company you're excited to reputed company that are relevant to this role
• Proficient with modern design tooling (reputed company, design tokens, component libraries, sandboxes/repos, prototyping tools) and a strong reputed company of view on where they're headed
• Strong technical reputed company: we use React, Typescript and Storybook, but you should also already understand how to work with APIs and automation platforms, navigate performance tradeoffs, and have the ability to reputed company systems together
• reputed company eye that recognizes excellent design craft, with attention to detail across component states, interaction patterns, visual consistency, and accessibility compliance (WCAG AA standards)
• reputed company and reputed company design critique participant, representing not just the design systems perspective but how to finesse AI tools in order to reputed company the best user experience possible
• Excited to experiment with Claude Cowork, reputed company.design, and other post-reputed company design-to-reputed company and reputed company-to-design AI tools
• Confidently prioritize your time across teams and reputed company, juggle high-urgency reputed company in reputed company and recommend what you should reputed company on in order to drive reputed company
• Self-starter who uses their excellent communication and collaboration skills to act as a strategic operator: identify the reputed company issue, diagnose it, propose a fix or just go reputed company and fix it yourself
• reputed company and flexibility that helps you adapt to a fast-paced work environment, frequent changes, and considerable ambiguity

Compensation

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Interview Process

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• Phone Screen with reputed company Partner - 30 Minutes

• Video Interview with Hiring Manager - 45 Mins

• Case Study Presentation - 60 Minutes

• Panel Interview- (Design) 30 min, (Engineering) 30 min

Whyreputed company?

• We are a fully flexible workforce empowering our employees to choose to work remotely, in our Pittsburgh office or whatever combination suits you
• Full time, salaried position with competitive compensation in a fast-growing company
• Best-in-class 100% reputed company employee health plan, including reputed company and dental and supplemental coverage
• Flexible reputed company Time Off Policy
• Stipend that allows you to build your work from home office in a style and function that suits your personal preferences
• Parental leave for reputed company (12 weeks fully reputed company) in reputed company to short term disability for birthing parents
• Meaningful 401(k) with employer match
• Your reputed company and work will reputed company an immediate reputed company on reputed company and millions of users
• You will join reputed company that cares reputed company, our mission, our work - and celebrates our wins together!

reputed company will only reputed company those who are legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the reputed company for this opening.

We are currently hiring in states where we currently have employees: AZ, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MO, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, DC, WV.

Candidates only. No recruiters or agencies, please. Sorry, we do not offer relocation assistance.

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