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Its 40+ products help businesses manage everything from payroll and hiring to devices and expenses. The company invests heavily in design systems so these products feel like one connected experience.\nThe role / why it matters\nAs Product Design Lead, Design Systems, you will shape the patterns and design language used across the entire platform. This is a hands-on Staff/Principal-level individual contributor role with broad strategic ownership. You will partner with approximately 18 dedicated engineers and help define an AI-native approach to design quality, prototyping and implementation.\nWhat you'll do\nDesign scalable, repeatable interaction patterns, UX flows and frameworks that go beyond component and token libraries.\nBuild patterns that work across dense product experiences and the growing mobile design system.\nDevelop AI-driven systems that define, measure and check design quality against shared standards.\nCreate AI prototyping tools and code-based checks that help teams produce high-quality implementations.\nOwn platform-wide initiatives from identifying a problem and setting strategy through hands-on prototyping and delivery.\nWork closely with engineers, product managers and designers to improve craft and the platform's design language.\nRaise the quality of work across teams while remaining an active practitioner.\nRequirements\nWhat we're looking for\n8-20 years of product design or design systems experience, with approximately 12 years a strong fit for the role's scope.\nPrior Staff, Principal or Lead-level responsibility and the ability to combine vision and strategy with hands-on individual contributor work.\nExperience designing systems, repeatable interaction patterns and UX frameworks for complex B2B platforms, horizontal architectures or developer tools.\nPractical use of AI-assisted coding and prototyping tools such as Cursor, Claude Code or Codex; comfort working close to code rather than relying only on static design files.\nStrong visual, interaction and user experience craft, including accessibility expertise.\nA portfolio showing pattern-level work beyond basic component or token libraries, with clear ownership, trade-offs and outcomes.\nAutonomy, pace and the ability to identify problems, bring partners together and drive solutions without heavy process.\nBonus points\nExperience at companies known for strong consumer or mobile design.\nOwnership of a complex design system within a large organization.\nExperience building AI-native design systems or tools that automate design-quality evaluation.\nStrong mobile interaction craft alongside experience with dense enterprise products.\nBenefits\nCompensation and benefits\n$200,000-$280,000 annual base salary, plus competitive equity with four-year vesting.\nCompensation depends on location, experience and level. 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