HighLevel - Lead Product Designer, Design Systems
Requirements
• 7+ years of relevant product design experience, including building or leading a multi-team design system • An exceptionally strong portfolio with at least one system-level case study that covers your role, architecture, governance and measurable impact • Advanced visual and interaction design craft, with strong care for hierarchy, layout, typography, grids, spacing, motion, usability, accessibility and product quality • Expert command of Figma libraries, variables, modes, component properties and token pipelines, with a record of architecting scalable systems across teams and connecting them to AI tools • Deep fluency in front-end development, including HTML, CSS and component frameworks such as React or Vue, with the ability to review implementations for fidelity • Hands-on experience vibe coding prototypes with AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor to test primitives, templates and patterns before production • Deep knowledge of WCAG and hands-on experience designing and testing accessible components • A clear point of view on how design systems should support AI-assisted development, plus experience designing AI-driven or intelligent interfaces • Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex ideas, lead critiques and workshops and persuade engineers, product managers, designers and senior stakeholders through rationale, evidence and craft • You raise the bar for consistency, craft and product quality across the teams that build with the system • You thrive at high shipping velocity and see the design system as what makes speed and quality compatible • You know when a problem needs a new primitive or component and when it needs better guidance • You build trust through warmth, candor, accountability and genuine respect for your teammates as people • You enjoy leading collaboration across time zones and cultural contexts, including with US- and India-based teammates • You advocate for accessibility, inclusion and ethical design • $150,000 - $190,000 a year
Responsibilities
• Lead strategy and execution for one or more areas of the design system, grounded in product needs, usage data and technical constraints • Define and evolve visual foundations, including tokens, theming, color, typography, spacing, iconography and motion • Design and refine components and patterns, including anatomy, states, variants, responsive behavior, edge cases and failure states • Create primitives, templates and starter kits that help teams build quickly with AI tools while staying on-system • Encode visual, interaction, content and accessibility rules as documentation and machine-readable guidance that AI coding tools and agents can follow • Partner with front-end engineers on token architecture, component APIs and implementation fidelity so Figma, documentation and code stay in sync • Shape contribution, versioning, deprecation and governance models that let the system grow without fragmentation • Guide product teams onto the system, study how it's used in what ships and feed what you learn back into it • Drive innovation by staying ahead of emerging trends in design and technology • Set standards for usability, accessibility, interaction quality and visual consistency, and mentor designers through critique and system reviews • Collaborate effectively across US, UK and India time zones in a 100% remote environment
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