# Staff Design Systems Designer

**Company:** [Harvey](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/harvey)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $200k – $260k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Design Systems, Figma, Design Tokens, Component Architecture, Accessibility, A11Y, Prototyping, Frontend Engineering Collaboration, Responsive Design, Design Documentation, Governance Models
**Posted:** 2026-02-12

> Defines and evolves design system foundations including components, patterns, and tokens for scalable AI-powered products. Partners with frontend and platform engineers to ship production-ready systems, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and performance. Requires 8+ years in product design with design systems ownership.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do
- Define and evolve the core design system foundations, including components, patterns, and tokens that scale across complex, AI-powered experiences
- Design, prototype, and ship production-ready system components in tight collaboration with frontend engineering
- Partner directly with frontend and platform engineers to ensure system decisions translate cleanly into code, with shared ownership of quality, performance, and maintainability
- Establish clear contribution, governance, and deprecation models that balance velocity with system integrity
- Embed accessibility, responsiveness, and performance into the system by default
- Document system usage and best practices in a way that is clear, practical, and trusted by product teams
- Advocate for system adoption and consistency in product planning, design reviews, and execution
- Anticipate future product and platform needs, evolving the system proactively as Harvey scales

## What you have
- 8+ years of experience in product design, with significant ownership of design systems in complex product environments
- An excellent portfolio demonstrating system-level thinking, component design, and real product impact
- Deep understanding of component architecture, design tokens, and how design systems scale across teams
- Proven experience partnering closely with frontend engineers to ship high-quality, production systems
- Strong working knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design practices
- Ability to clearly articulate system decisions and tradeoffs to designers, engineers, and cross-functional partners
- Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and bringing structure where it doesn’t yet exist

## Compensation
$200,000 - $260,000 USD

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