Senior Illustrator

Responsibilities

• Execute illustration work across product surfaces: Rider, Driver, Marketing with a high craft bar and deep understanding of our system and style
• Lead ongoing brand migration work: moving existing illustrations into the updated style across multiple product verticals
• Own and maintain Lyft's illustration libraries in Figma — including organization, naming, publishing, and code handoff via LPL
• Develop motion design capabilities for illustrated assets; this is an emerging need and a real opportunity to define how Lyft's visual identity moves
• Manage the illustration intake process: triage requests, run office hours, set priorities alongside the DPM and manager
• Partner with (contract illustrator) on assignments — package work clearly, review output, and maintain quality and consistency across execution
• Collaborate with engineers to ship illustrations through LPL — SVGs to code, PRs reviewed, library updates published
• Work with Marketing, Brand, and Content teams to extend the illustration system beyond product surfaces
• Contribute to documentation, onboarding materials, and illustration guidelines so the system is legible to everyone who depends on it

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional illustration experience, ideally in a product or brand context
• Strong Figma skills, you work natively in Figma
• Demonstrated experience building or maintaining an illustration system, component library, or visual language at scale
• Comfort working directly with engineering: you understand how assets move from Figma to code and can own that handoff without hand-holding
• Motion or animation experience, or a genuine appetite to develop it. After Effects, Lottie, or equivalent
• Ability to manage a varied workload: migration work, net-new requests, and system maintenance all at once
• Clear communicator: you can run a stakeholder review, give useful feedback to a contractor, and write a brief that someone can execute from
• Familiarity with design systems, or similar component-based systems a plus

Benefits

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future
• In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Subsidized commuter benefits
• Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership