Senior Product Designer, Design Systems Job at Zip (San Francisco)

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

Zip

Location:
United States , San Francisco

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

150000.00 - 200000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

We're looking to bring on a designer to lead our design systems. You will be working closely with our frontend platform and foundations team to evolve our design systems and patterns, and build and evangelize best practices across all of our product teams. This will be a hybrid product design and design systems role, where you’ll spend 80% of your time building and scaling our design system and 20% on designing best-in-class experiences for our platform features. You’ll work with a tight-knit team that values open communication and cross-functional collaboration. We move quickly to solve a wide range of complex product challenges with 100% emphasis on end-user experience.

Job Responsibility:

Contribute to Zip’s vision and how to reimagine the procurement space with elegant, modern, interfaces
Grow and mature our Design System capabilities and toolkits by pioneering new foundations, components, practices and methodologies
Develop a long-term strategy for design systems at Zip and collaborate closely with engineering and design to ensure components are implemented correctly
Drive requirements gathering with designers and engineers to build a well-rounded understanding of different product areas to help design of flexible and extensible frameworks, patterns, and components
Set a high quality standard for user interfaces across the board, inventorying inconsistencies and proposing the necessary improvements
Develop usage guidelines that teach designers and engineers how to use the components and patterns across design and code
create channels for feedback and improvements to ensure consistent implementation of components in code across multiple product verticals
Organize robust Figma libraries, and keep them neat and usable
Collaborate with other designers to craft and maintain a holistic product vision across Zip’s suite of products
Evangelize the Design System’s importance across the company in presentations, meetings, and other forums

Requirements:

5+ years experience as a design systems or product designer at a digital product company, contributing/leading the design and visual execution of product experiences
At least 3 years of design systems experience is required
Expertise in Figma, Storybook, WCAG compliance, and other design systems tools
A foundational understanding of HTML/CSS, how to design across multiple breakpoints, devices, and locales, and the ability to talk with developers about the implementation details
Strong portfolio demonstrating samples of best practice Design System deliverables (style foundations, components, interaction design, iconography, and prototypes)
Exceptionally strong visual, UI and interaction skills — you’re a champion for design and product excellence
Highly organized & systematic thinker with experience in driving a design process and working collaboratively to solve problems
Excitement about socializing a design system across an organization
Thrive in ambiguity and can independently prioritize work based on user needs and business goals, and take responsibility to drive product ideas forward
Great presentation, collaboration and communication skills
Strong organizational skills
ability to manage multiple projects at various stages

What we offer:

Start-up equity
Health, vision & dental coverage
Catered lunches & dinners for TO employees
Team building events & happy hours
Flexible PTO
Apple equipment plus home office budget

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 18, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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