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Senior or Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

Harvey· Design
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$205.8k - $315kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Role focused on defining and evolving an AI-native design system that enables scalable, high-quality product experiences across Design, Engineering, and Product, with strong emphasis on system architecture, tokens, accessibility, and AI-enabled workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Build an AI-native design system that sets the bar for design quality for Design, Engineering, and Product through technical direction and collaboration
  • Design, prototype, and ship production-ready system components in tight collaboration with frontend and platform engineering, with shared ownership of quality, performance, and maintainability
  • Define and evolve the core design system foundations (components, patterns, and tokens) that scale across complex, AI-powered experiences
  • Push both the architecture and the implementation of the system: shape component APIs, token structure, theming, and composition patterns alongside engineering, not downstream of it
  • Advocate for technical approaches with confidence, especially in new or ambiguous territory where established patterns don't yet exist
  • Embed accessibility, responsiveness, and performance into the system by default
  • Establish clear contribution, governance, and deprecation models that balance velocity with system integrity
  • Raise the bar for system quality across the product through design reviews, critique, and hands-on work
  • Build alignment across Design, Engineering, and Product through technical direction and collaboration
  • Anticipate future product and platform needs, evolving the system proactively as Harvey scales
  • Own AI design and implementation workflows for the design team, establishing best practices for prototyping and shipping with AI
  • Establish in-code prototyping patterns that make it easier to be innovative and consistent as designers increasingly leverage IDEs to experiment and ship.
  • Define AI-assisted design and implementation workflows, establishing best practices for prototyping and shipping with AI
  • Document system usage and best practices in a way that is clear, practical, and trusted by product teams

Qualifications

  • 5+ years (Senior) / 8+ years (Staff) of product design experience, with significant ownership of design systems in complex product environments
  • A design portfolio that demonstrates high design craft in system-level thinking, but a strong point of view on quality, and visual cohesion
  • Deep design systems expertise, including an understanding of the history and evolution of the discipline
  • Excellent design engineering communication: you articulate system decisions and tradeoffs fluently to designers, engineers, and cross-functional partners
  • Ability to clearly articulate system decisions and tradeoffs to designers, engineers, and cross-functional partners
  • Strong knowledge of scalable system architecture and component implementation: component API design, design tokens, theming strategies, and how systems hold up across teams and codebases
  • Design Engineer experience preferred, but not required in an AI-first world where the boundary between design and engineering is shifting
  • High ownership: you treat the system as a product, not a ticket queue
  • Strong opinions, loosely held, being comfortable challenging conventions and evolving best practices as the discipline changes
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and bringing structure where it doesn't yet exist

Skills

Required:Design systemsDesign engineering communication

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
  • flexible PTO
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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