Product Manager, Design Systems
Own the strategy and execution of design-system capabilities used by multiple product teams, partnering across product, design, and engineering to improve experience consistency and development speed. Requires 8+ years of product management experience and expertise with platforms, shared infrastructure, or design systems.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for design-system capabilities within the AI & App Experience team.
- Partner with Product Design and Engineering to evolve shared components, patterns, tooling, and infrastructure.
- Improve how product teams discover, adopt, and contribute to the design system while balancing consistency and flexibility.
- Translate internal product-builder needs into product priorities, requirements, and measurable outcomes.
- Drive alignment and tradeoffs across product areas and shared platform needs.
- Establish success measures using adoption, effectiveness, consistency, and business-impact signals.
- Explore how emerging AI capabilities can improve design, development, and maintenance of app experiences.
Requirements
- 8+ years of Product Management experience.
- Experience owning complex products, platforms, or internal systems from strategy through execution in a technology environment.
- Experience with design systems, developer platforms, UI frameworks, shared product infrastructure, or similar horizontal capabilities.
- Track record of turning ambiguous cross-functional problems into product strategy, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
- Strong partnership with Product Design and Engineering, including fluency in component architecture, platform constraints, user experience tradeoffs, and implementation decisions.
- Experience driving adoption of shared products or platforms across multiple teams and influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
- Experience using data, research, and customer or internal-user feedback to prioritize investments and assess product value.
- Experience balancing quality, consistency, scale, speed, and durable foundations.
Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $196,000–$255,000.
- Eligible for a bonus, equity package, and comprehensive benefits.
- Benefits include health, financial, and wellbeing coverage; paid time off; parental leave; family-planning reimbursement; commuter benefits; wellness stipend; and backup care benefits.
Skills
Product Strategy, Product Roadmapping, Design Systems, Developer Platforms, Ui Frameworks, Product Infrastructure, Component Architecture, Product Design, Engineering Collaboration, Data Analysis, User Research, Artificial Intelligence
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