Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

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