# Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

**Company:** [Hinge Health](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hinge-health)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $195k – $275k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Figma, Design Systems, Component Architecture, Design Tokens, Storybook, Product Design, Design Governance, Stakeholder Management, Mentorship, AI Workflows
**Posted:** 2026-06-08

> Lead vision, strategy, and roadmap for Hinge Health's design system. Define components, patterns, tokens, and standards while partnering with engineering on implementation and governance.

## Job Description

## What You'll Accomplish

### Own the Design System
- Lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Hinge Health’s design system
- Define and evolve core components, patterns, tokens, and interaction standards used across the product
- Ensure the system supports a wide range of surfaces, from core product UI to Agent flows, enterprise templates, and integrated design systems

### Partner Deeply with Engineering
- Collaborate closely with engineers on implementation details, tradeoffs, and system architecture
- Influence code-level decisions that affect system consistency and adoption
- Help shape tooling, Storybook usage, and contribution workflows so the system is easy to use and maintain

### Set Standards & Governance
- Partner with feature teams through office hours and design reviews
- Help teams navigate patterns the system doesn't yet cover and decide when a design should become a global standard or remain a local solution
- Establish clear contribution models, review processes, and decision-making frameworks for system changes
- Act as a design system “domain owner,” providing guidance and sign-off on system-level decisions
- Document principles, patterns, and rationale so decisions scale beyond individuals

### Raise the Bar for Design Quality
- Identify inconsistencies, duplication, and fragmentation across the product and drive systematic improvements
- Balance speed with craft, knowing when to be opinionated and when to enable flexibility
- Advocate for system-level thinking across product, design, and engineering

## Basic Qualifications
- 8+ years of product design experience, with deep ownership of a design system at scale
- A standout portfolio showcasing high-impact design systems work and leadership across complex systems initiatives
- Highly effective communicator with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and align teams around design direction
- Demonstrated success mentoring designers and elevating the quality of team output
- Deep fluency with tokens, component architecture, variants, and Figma systems craft
- Experience with Claude Code (or other agentic coding tools), MCPs, and other AI workflows
- Strong opinions on system governance, contribution models, and adoption strategies
- Experience partnering with platform engineers on implementation, parity, and release cadence

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