Staff Product Designer – Design Systems

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of and enhance a key area of Trellis: Tokens and Visual Language, Components, or Patterns.

• Collaborate with product, engineering, content design, research, and design technology to establish scalable and accessible system guidance.

• Make informed system decisions that balance consistency, flexibility, accessibility, technical limitations, product requirements, and customer experience.

• Minimize product fragmentation by creating reliable shared foundations.

• Enhance coherence between Figma, documentation, and front-end implementation.

• Develop documentation and usage guidelines for designers, engineers, and AI-assisted tools.

• Work alongside product teams to identify adoption challenges, edge cases, implementation gaps, and emerging requirements.

• Contribute to governance and contribution frameworks.

• Promote accessibility, internationalization, responsive design, and high implementation standards.

• Collaborate with design technologists and engineers on component APIs, design tokens, implementation fidelity, acceptance criteria, and system tools.

• Uphold a high quality standard and foster trust throughout the organization.

• Enhance Trellis's machine readability to facilitate AI coding tools, MCP integrations, and generative UI workflows.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant experience with enterprise design systems or intricate multi-product platforms.

• Background encompassing governance, adoption, documentation, accessibility, contribution models, and cross-team collaboration.

• Strong proficiency in one or more areas such as tokens and visual language, reusable components, product patterns, accessibility, documentation, governance, adoption, or Figma-to-code alignment.

• Extensive experience in enterprise SaaS, CRM, developer tools, commerce, data-intensive products, AI-assisted workflows, or other complex product settings.

• Expertise in designing reusable components that consider anatomy, states, variants, behaviors, accessibility, responsive rules, and implementation limitations.

• Proven experience in managing visual foundations at scale, including tokens, theming, color, typography, iconography, and motion.

• Strong partnership with engineering on component APIs, tokens, documentation, implementation fidelity, and front-end architecture.

• A track record of enhancing adoption, contribution models, governance, migration, and team empowerment.

• Ability to operate at a staff level with autonomy in identifying challenges, setting direction, influencing stakeholders, and resolving issues without close supervision.

• Strong product craft that balances consistency, flexibility, usability, accessibility, and practical implementation.

• Curiosity and diligence in advancing design systems for AI-assisted product development.

• A portfolio showcasing system-level projects.

• Excellent communication skills for articulating system decisions to designers, engineers, product leaders, and non-specialist stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for an equity plan, including restricted stock units (RSUs), for qualifying positions.

• Annual bonus targets under HubSpot’s bonus structure for eligible roles.

• On-target commission for roles eligible for commissions.

• Overtime pay eligibility for certain positions.

• Benefits and perks designed to support employee growth.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Opportunities for in-person gatherings, such as the Product Group Summit, for broader Product team members.

• Disability accommodations and alternative travel arrangements available for those with travel limitations.