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With our AI-powered Global Work Platform™, companies can hire, pay, and manage employees in 185+ countries-removing risk, red tape, and guesswork from global growth. Backed by more than a decade of compliance leadership and local expertise, Pebl helps businesses move fast, stay compliant, and scale with confidence. With Pebl, companies everywhere can hire great talent anywhere.\nWhere Your Work Moves the Needle.\nAt Pebl, every team member drives our success. Joining us means more than filling a role-you’re accountable for results and impact. Our values guide how we operate, execute, and collaborate across borders. By putting them into action, you’ll help us scale faster, compete harder, and lead the future of global work.\nWhat Makes You a Great Fit\nDesign systems are infrastructure. They determine how fast teams move, how consistent the product feels, and how much trust users place in every interaction. We're looking for a designer who understands this deeply - someone who brings both systems-level thinking and exceptional craft to the work.\nIn this role, you'll own and evolve our design system end-to-end: the component library, the token architecture, the documentation, and the workflows that connect design to production. You'll work in close partnership with engineering and product to ensure the system scales across web and mobile surfaces - and that it stays useful, adoptable, and ahead of the curve as our product and tooling landscape evolves.\nThis is a high-ownership, high-visibility role. You'll shape the shared language that every product team works from, and influence how designers and engineers across the org build together.\nThis role will require in-office collaboration Monday-Wednesday in our Palo Alto, CA office.\nHow You'll Make an Impact:\nOwn the architecture, strategy, and evolution of the design system - components, tokens, patterns, and documentation - across web and mobile surfaces\n\nDesign and ship production-ready components with a high bar for craft: well-defined states, variants, interaction models, responsiveness, and accessibility baked in from the start\n\nPartner closely with frontend engineering to ensure system decisions translate cleanly into code - with shared ownership of quality, parity, and maintainability\n\nCreate clear, opinionated documentation and usage guidance: best practices, anti-patterns, decision frameworks, and contribution standards that teams can act on immediately\n\nBuild and maintain governance models that balance system integrity with the speed product teams need\n\nConduct regular audits to identify inconsistencies, gaps, and opportunities to improve component coverage and design-to-code parity\n\nLead the evaluation and integration of AI-powered design tooling - including Figma AI, MCP integrations, StoryBook MCP and generative workflows - into how the system is built and consumed\n\nAnticipate shifts in the product, platform, and tooling landscape, and evolve the system proactively towards an agentic workflow.\n\nLet’s Connect If You Have:\n7+ years of product design experience, with at least 3 years owning or significantly contributing to a design system at a product company\n\nAn outstanding portfolio demonstrating systems-level thinking, component craft, and real impact at scale\n\nExtraordinary visual design taste - a rigorous, opinionated eye for typography, color, spacing, and interaction quality that raises the bar across every surface\n\nExpert-level Figma skills: component architecture, variables, tokens, auto-layout, and the discipline to keep a shared library production-aligned\n\nComfort working across the design-to-code workflow - you know your way around design tokens, Storybook, and GitHub, and can collaborate closely with engineers on implementation\n\nStrong understanding of front-end fundamentals (HTML, CSS, React or equivalent) and how design decisions translate into code\n\nKnowledge of accessibility standards and a commitment to inclusive design baked into every component by default\n\nStrong written communication skills - you write documentation that is clear, opinionated, and easy to act on\n\nTrack record of leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders on system strategy and investment\n\nBonus Points\nExperience integrating AI tools into design and development workflows - AI-assisted prototyping, automated component generation, design-to-code pipelines\n\nBackground building or contributing to open-source design systems\n\nFamiliarity with design-to-code automation tools and AI-driven product development workflows\n\nExternal thought leadership through writing, speaking, or open-source contributions in the design systems space\n\nExperience in enterprise SaaS, fintech, or other complex, data-dense product environments\n\nWhy This Role Matters\nA strong design system isn't just a component library - it's a force multiplier. It's what lets teams move faster without sacrificing quality. It's what keeps a product feeling coherent as complexity grows. And in an era where AI tools are increasingly part of the design and development workflow, a well-structured system becomes the foundation everything else is built on. We are a fast paced company, and impact is made fast.\nOur Commitment to You\nAt Pebl, we’re committed to supporting our team with comprehensive rewards and benefits designed to meet diverse needs across roles and locations. Our core offerings include:\nFlexible Time Off - Take the time you need to recharge.\n\nParental Leave - Support for growing families.\n\nHealth and Dental Insurance - Where applicable, to cover you and your loved ones.\n\nRetirement Savings + Employee Incentive Plan - Plan for the future while sharing our success.\n\nPlease visit our career page for more information.\nPebl is an Equal Opportunity Employer.\nWe power global teams and believe diverse perspectives drive innovation and impact. Employment decisions at Pebl are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. 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