Senior UX Designer, Design Systems

Job Description:

  • Conceptualize and create design solutions that bring clarity, cohesion, and visual impact across product experiences — from early exploration through detailed execution.
  • Partner with UX research and data teams to ground design decisions in user behaviors, needs, and motivations.
  • Translate concepts into cohesive, user-centered designs, balancing speed with craft and structure with storytelling.
  • Contribute to information architecture and influence best practices that raise the standard of design across the team.
  • Participate actively in team crits, providing constructive feedback and fostering a strong design culture.
  • May support supplementary projects as assigned, ensuring timely and efficient completion in line with organizational objectives and standards.
  • Actively build and apply AI fluency in your design practice, contributing to shared workflows and helping teammates explore how AI can support faster, more consistent design outcomes.
  • Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and internal teams to translate creative direction into practical, user-centered solutions.
  • Communicate design intent effectively through visuals, prototypes, and storytelling that align teams and stakeholders.
  • Lead through influence — fostering alignment, elevating work quality, and helping peers think through design challenges with clarity.
  • Work with cross-functional partners to define timelines, trade-offs, and constraints throughout the design process.
  • Contribute to component specs, token definitions, and library maintenance in collaboration with the UX team, ensuring accuracy and consistency across the system.
  • Identify gaps and opportunities within the system, helping define patterns that support product growth and scalability.
  • Partner with front-end engineers to ensure specs translate cleanly into production and the token pipeline stays reliable.
  • Support documentation and guidelines that enable adoption across design and development, including versioning and deprecation as the system evolves.
  • Develop fluency with AI-powered design tools, applying them to generate and validate on-system designs using the design system as a reliable foundation.

Requirements:

  • 3–5 years of experience leading end-to-end delivery of products, starting from ideation and discovery to pixel-perfect mocks.
  • Experience working with remote, geographically distributed, cross-functional teams on complex product features.
  • Experience leading discovery, ideation, and user research sessions.
  • Some hands-on exposure to design systems work — contributing to components, tokens, or documentation.
  • Strong design tooling skills (e.g. Figma), including component libraries and an interest in deepening your Variables and token workflow knowledge.
  • Familiarity with token architecture and an eagerness to learn how design tokens connect to engineering implementation.
  • You bring a user-first approach to UX design, grounding decisions in research and data.
  • You're a strong storyteller with experience presenting to audiences at multiple levels of the organization.
  • Experience mentoring junior designers.
  • Familiarity with AI-powered design tools and genuine curiosity about how they can be grounded in a strong design system — or excitement to develop that fluency as the space evolves.
  • You're comfortable working in a culture of feedback and approach conflict with curiosity.
  • You're dedicated to fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment, and don't just welcome, but center and amplify, backgrounds and points of view that differ from yours.
  • You care about progressive causes and politics and want to spend your time making a meaningful impact by doing what you do best.
  • You're comfortable with our design and tech stacks and are not afraid to dive in with curiosity to areas beyond your comfort.

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; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability
  • Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
  • Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
  • Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
  • A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
  • Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
  • Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times
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