System Designer
Design and scale platform-level systems that create consistent experiences across complex products, platforms, and interaction models. The role requires 6+ years of product, UX, or design systems experience, strong accessibility and systems thinking, and a bachelor’s degree in engineering or design.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the foundational design language for a platform-level build system.
- Build and scale a platform-level design system supporting multiple products and tools.
- Establish scalable design system assets across design and code.
- Define agent-driven design system patterns that enable AI agents and coding tools to generate experiences using approved components, patterns, and rules.
- Create code-based standards, reusable skills, and implementation guidance for engineers and AI coding tools.
- Establish and maintain accessibility standards across components, patterns, and platforms.
- Validate the design system across real products and workflows.
- Support a multi-platform ecosystem spanning web, in-vehicle interfaces, devices, enterprise tools, and emerging surfaces.
- Define patterns for click, touch, voice, and agent-driven interactions.
- Maintain high standards for visual design, brand, usability, accessibility, and consistency.
- Document systems for designers, engineers, customers, and AI-assisted development workflows.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in product design, UX design, or design systems, ideally with complex B2B, technical, or data-heavy software.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or design.
- Strong experience building and scaling platform-level design systems across multiple products or tools.
- Excellent visual and interaction design skills.
- Strong understanding of design system architecture, accessibility, and inclusive design.
- Experience translating design systems into production code, reusable components, and AI-consumable standards.
- Strong systems thinking and ability to design for complex enterprise ecosystems.
- Experience partnering closely with engineering.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience shipping design system components directly in a production codebase.
- Experience creating AI coding guidelines, skills, rules, or agent-driven design system workflows.
- Experience running research or usability validation.
- Experience designing for automotive, enterprise software, developer tools, or platform products.
- Experience with embedded devices, voice, multimodal, or agent-driven interfaces.
Skills
Design Systems, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Information Architecture, Accessibility, Inclusive Design, Production Code, Reusable Components, AI Agents, Web Design, Voice Interfaces, Multimodal Interfaces
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