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Staff Design Systems Designer

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.

200k – 260kSan Francisco, CAProduct DesignHybrid8+ YOE

About the role

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

Skills

Design SystemsFigmaDesign TokensComponent ArchitectureAccessibilityA11YPrototypingFrontend Engineering CollaborationResponsive DesignDesign DocumentationGovernance Models

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