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Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

United States, San Francisco 150000.00 - 200000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 18, 2026
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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

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