Staff Design Systems Engineer

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NicheEducation Technology

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.Full-TimeStaff

Salary$164,000-$195,000

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Job Details

Experience: 6+ years
Required Skills: FigmaTypeScriptUI DesignReactPrototyping

Requirements

6+ years of relevant experience with a track record of setting design system vision and driving adoption.
Portfolio or case studies demonstrating relevant experience and ability to drive business impact.
Regular user of LLMs (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) in your actual workflow.
Proficient with modern design tooling such as Figma, design tokens, and prototyping tools.
Strong technical fluency in React, TypeScript, and Storybook.
Understanding of APIs, automation platforms, and performance tradeoffs.
Eye for design craft including component states, interaction patterns, and visual consistency.
Deep knowledge of accessibility compliance (WCAG AA standards).
Experience or strong interest in post-Figma design-to-code AI tools.
Ability to prioritize work across multiple high-urgency projects.

Responsibilities

Design, refine and ship reusable and accessible components, tokens, and interaction patterns for web and mobile.
Contribute production code and support product designers using agentic coding tools.
Establish LLM guidelines and configure internal tools to enable AI-assisted design and coding workflows.
Define and maintain the visual language, documentation, and component libraries for both human and AI consumption.
Improve the system contribution model to enable product teams to scale new components.
Establish governance and accessibility standards (WCAG AA) to ensure system health and compliance.
Train and mentor design and engineering teams on best practices and new tool adoption.

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