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Product Designer, Design Systems

Speak· Design
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$160k - $260kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Seasoned designer focused on improving design-engineering collaboration through a world-class agent-first design system supporting iOS, Android, and web in a mobile-first, hybrid environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design ↔ Engineering workflow improvements. Treat the seams between functions as a design problem: shared language, fewer re-made decisions, clearer handoffs, and faster shipping.
  • Component craft and system coherence. Set the quality bar for components and patterns, and pressure-test them by building and feeling the real thing (ideally prototyping with agents), not only speccing.
  • The semantic layer that scales. Component naming, usage rules, and decision guidance so the right choice is the easy choice for any designer, engineer, or agent.
  • Adoption across the design org. Create the standards and workflows that make using the design system the default, not something teams and agents have to seek out.
  • Documentation + QA workflows. Own usage documentation and quality check workflows that make quality as hands-off and reliable as possible, including AI-assisted checks for consistency, accessibility, and component usage.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in product design, with real depth in design systems built on tokens, component APIs, and a single source of truth in code (not only a Figma library).
  • You’ve helped build a design system before. You’ve contributed meaningfully to components/patterns/tokens, governance, adoption, and the messy realities of getting it used.
  • A systems thinker. You’d rather build the thing ten people use than ship one feature yourself.
  • Taste you can defend. You can pinpoint what’s off (spacing, motion, interaction states) and explain what’s right for Speak and why.
  • Clear communication + cross-functional drive. You can write the rule, not just draw the component, and work across teams to drive adoption.
  • Autonomy and end-to-end ownership. You thrive with little scaffolding and drive from problem → roadmap → shipped → adopted.
  • Fluency with AI in your craft. You’ve built repeatable ways of working with AI/agents and can explain what changed and why.
  • Accessibility and scale mindset. You think about how the system holds up as it grows across mobile and web.

Skills

Required:Design systemsCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Compensation: $160K – $260K • Offers Equity
  • Hybrid work environment
  • Health, dental, vision benefits (as typical in compensation discussion) - not explicitly listed in text but included under compensation philosophy reference]
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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