Senior Design Technologist - Design Systems
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United StatesFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Required Skills
- FigmaJavascriptTypeScriptReact
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience across product design and/or front-end engineering
- Ownership of a production design system used by multiple teams
- Strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in design systems, UI components, tokens, and scalable cross-platform design practices
- Advanced proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and modern frameworks such as React
- Experience building internal tools (Figma plugins, scripts, CLIs, or automation pipelines) with maintainability and testing considerations
- Deep expertise in Figma for systems work, including components, variants, naming conventions, and library architecture
- Strong understanding of design tokens, theming strategies, and mapping design decisions to implementation
- Ability to design and implement accessible, scalable UI components including states, edge cases, and responsive behavior
- Experience working in shared codebases or monorepos with multi-team collaboration models
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and responsible use of automation in engineering/design processes
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve core design system infrastructure, including repositories, publishing workflows, and component development environments such as Storybook or equivalents
- Improve and scale design token systems (semantic and primitive), theming strategies, and distribution pipelines into product codebases
- Strengthen design-to-code workflows to reduce drift, improve consistency, and embed system guardrails directly into development processes
- Develop and maintain reusable UI components with strong attention to accessibility, responsiveness, and cross-platform consistency
- Build internal tools such as Figma plugins, generators, CLIs, and CI/CD automations to improve team productivity and system adoption
- Define and model system standards in structured formats that can be used for automation, validation, and developer guidance
- Measure system usage, identify friction points, and iterate on tools, documentation, and governance practices based on real-world feedback
- Leverage AI-assisted workflows to accelerate audits, migrations, and repetitive engineering/design tasks while ensuring quality and security
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