Senior UX Designer, Design Systems

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona, +33 more states.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement design solutions that enhance clarity, unity, and visual appeal across product experiences — from initial exploration to detailed execution.

• Collaborate with UX research and data teams to ground design choices in user behaviors, needs, and motivations.

• Convert concepts into unified, user-centered designs, balancing efficiency with craftsmanship and structure with narrative.

• Contribute to the information architecture and advocate for best practices that elevate the design standard within the team.

• Actively engage in team critiques, offering constructive feedback and nurturing a robust design culture.

• May assist with additional projects as assigned, ensuring timely and efficient completion aligned with organizational goals and standards.

• Proactively develop and incorporate AI fluency into your design practice, contributing to shared workflows and assisting teammates in exploring how AI can enable quicker, more consistent design results.

• Work closely with product, engineering, and internal teams to translate creative direction into practical, user-centered solutions.

• Effectively communicate design intent through visuals, prototypes, and storytelling that align teams and stakeholders.

• Lead through influence — promoting alignment, enhancing work quality, and guiding peers in addressing design challenges with clarity.

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to establish timelines, trade-offs, and constraints throughout the design process.

• Assist in the development of component specifications, token definitions, and library maintenance in partnership with the UX team, ensuring accuracy and consistency across the system.

• Identify gaps and opportunities within the system, helping to define patterns that support product growth and scalability.

• Partner with front-end engineers to ensure specifications translate smoothly into production and maintain a reliable token pipeline.

• Support the creation of documentation and guidelines that facilitate adoption across design and development, including versioning and deprecation as the system evolves.

• Gain proficiency with AI-powered design tools, applying them to generate and validate on-system designs using the design system as a dependable foundation.

⛳️ Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in leading the end-to-end delivery of products, from ideation and discovery to pixel-perfect designs.

• Experience collaborating with remote, geographically distributed, cross-functional teams on complex product features.

• Proven experience in leading discovery, ideation, and user research sessions.

• Some hands-on experience with design systems work — contributing to components, tokens, or documentation.

• Strong skills in design tools (e.g. Figma), including component libraries, and a desire to deepen your knowledge of Variables and token workflows.

• Familiarity with token architecture and a strong willingness to learn how design tokens relate to engineering implementation.

• You adopt a user-first mindset in UX design, basing decisions on research and data.

• You are a compelling storyteller with experience presenting to audiences at various organizational levels.

• Experience mentoring junior designers.

• Familiarity with AI-powered design tools and a genuine interest in how they can be integrated into a strong design system — or enthusiasm to develop that fluency as the field advances.

• You thrive in a feedback-oriented culture and approach conflict with curiosity.

• You are committed to fostering a collaborative and inclusive workplace, actively centering and amplifying diverse backgrounds and perspectives.

• You are passionate about progressive causes and politics, seeking to make a meaningful impact through your work.

• You are comfortable with our design and tech stacks and willing to explore areas beyond your current expertise with curiosity.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy.

• Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; along with a fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement for out-of-pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability insurance.

• Fully covered basic and AD&D life insurance, plus a voluntary supplemental life insurance option.

• Options for dependent and healthcare flexible spending accounts.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits available for employees.

• Automatic 2% employer-paid 401K contribution, with an additional match of up to 6% on employee contributions.

• A minimum of three months of paid medical, family, and parental leave (including for all new parents and adoptions).

• Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees.

• Additional perks such as quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times.