Senior Visual Designer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 8, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 2, 2026.
Join Grindr, the world's largest social networking app for the LGBTQ+ community, as a Senior Visual Designer. In this role, you will own the development and ongoing refinement of Grindr's core design system, partner with product designers and engineers, and contribute strong visual design craft. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy in a lean environment and lead the integration of our design system with AI tools. Enjoy a range of benefits, including 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums, 401k matching, flexible PTO, equity for all employees, and more.
Missions
- Développer, documenter et affiner le système de design de Grindr, y compris les composants, les tokens, les motifs et les directives.
- Collaborer directement avec les designers de produits et les ingénieurs pour garantir l'adoption cohérente du système et son évolution.
- Identifier et résoudre les incohérences de design dans l'application principale, en visant une expérience produit plus cohérente.
Profil recherché
- Experience documenting systems clearly for audiences with varying levels of design fluency - product designers, engineers, and non-design stakeholders- Proficiency in Figma, including component architecture, variables, auto layout, and design token management
- 5+ years of product or visual design experience, with at least 2-3 years of focused design systems ownership - building or significantly evolving a system, not just contributing to one
- Demonstrated experience working in smaller or mid-size companies where you built or maintained systems with limited resources and without a dedicated systems team around you
- Track record of partnering with engineers to implement design systems in code - comfortable working across the design-to-development handoff
- Strong visual design skills - typography, color, iconography, spacing, and motion - with a portfolio that shows craft alongside systems thinking
- Are energized by constraints - limited headcount, fast timelines, and high standards feel like the right conditions to do your best work, not obstacles to it
- Care as much about the quality of what the system produces as the quality of the system itself - visual craft and structural rigor are not in tension for you
- Thrive in environments where you are the primary owner of a system, not one contributor among many - you make decisions, document them, and stand behind them
- Are AI-native or rapidly becoming so - you actively use AI tools in your workflow and are always looking for new ways to leverage them