Staff Visual Product Designer, Design Systems

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• Role: Staff Visual Product Designer, Design Systems

Description

Staff Visual Product Designer focused on Design Systems. Shape the visual language of the product and the systems that bring it to life by defining and evolving scalable patterns across design and engineering ecosystems. Create cohesive experiences for customers navigating complex security and compliance workflows, combining visual craft with systems thinking, product judgment, and cross-team influence.

What you’ll do as a Staff Visual Product Designer, Design Systems

• Define and evolve the visual design language across product surfaces to create a cohesive, distinctive, and scalable customer experience.
• Set a high bar for visual craft across typography, color, layout, iconography, illustration, motion, data visualization, and interaction details.
• Partner across Design Systems, Product, Engineering, Research, Content Design, and Brand to translate customer and business needs into system-level solutions.
• Own and evolve foundational design system elements: design tokens, component visual states, responsive behavior, theming, density, and platform-specific adaptations.
• Create reusable patterns and guidance so product teams solve common problems consistently while preserving flexibility for different customer workflows.
• Design and prototype system components and end-to-end product experiences using high-fidelity exploration to communicate intent and accelerate alignment.
• Bring visual clarity and hierarchy to complex, data-rich workflows for security, compliance, IT, legal, finance, and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure fidelity, accessibility, performance, and maintainability.
• Establish principles, standards, and review practices that raise the quality and consistency of product design.
• Advocate for inclusive and accessible visual design across color, contrast, typography, motion, and interaction states.
• Support emerging needs including AI-powered experiences, personalization, automation, and complex enterprise workflows.
• Use customer insights, product data, usability feedback, and competitive research to improve the system and its impact.
• Work AI-natively, using AI tools throughout the design process, including shipping designs for non-deterministic AI-powered experiences (chat, agentic modalities, etc.).
• Facilitate critiques, workshops, and cross-functional reviews to improve visual and product decisions.
• Influence product strategy and roadmap through design perspectives, narratives, prototypes, and a clear point of view.
• Mentor designers and help build a culture of thoughtful critique, continuous learning, experimentation, and customer obsession.
• Create documentation, examples, and enablement materials to make the design system easy to understand, adopt, and extend.
• Define and measure design system impact through adoption, consistency, accessibility, usability, delivery efficiency, and customer outcomes.
• Represent Design Systems in planning processes and product reviews to align teams around a shared vision.
• Share best practices to strengthen design craft and improve visual product quality across the organization.

How to be successful in this role

• 8+ years designing digital products, with significant visual product design experience for complex B2B SaaS or enterprise software.
• Deep expertise in visual design including typography, color, composition, layout, iconography, illustration, motion, interaction states, and data visualization.
• Portfolio showing exceptional visual craft and systems thinking at both component and end-to-end workflow levels.
• Experience creating, evolving, and scaling product design systems used by multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of design tokens, component architecture, responsive design, accessibility, and the relationship between design tools and front-end implementation.
• Track record of turning ambiguous product/customer problems into clear, reusable visual solutions.
• Experience partnering with engineers to bring detailed designs to life and making pragmatic decisions under implementation constraints.
• Strong product thinking across customer needs, business goals, technical constraints, and relationships among product surfaces and workflows.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and facilitation to influence product and engineering partners without formal authority.
• Balance consistency and flexibility: know when to extend an existing pattern vs introduce new ones.
• Ability to give and receive thoughtful feedback and mentor to raise the quality bar.
• Comfort in ambiguity: decide with incomplete information and balance strategy with action.
• Experience designing in cybersecurity, compliance, GRC, IT, infrastructure, financial services, or other regulated domain is a plus.
• Experience with Figma and familiarity with front-end technologies or design system implementation workflows is a plus.
• Commitment to principles including customer obsession and leading with resilience.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Computer Science, or related field.
• Authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future employer sponsorship.
• Responsible for protecting company and customer data in how you operate and deliver results.
• Open to using AI to amplify skills with curiosity, willingness to learn, and sound judgment applying AI responsibly.

What you can expect

• Industry-competitive salary and equity.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans.
• 16 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents.
• Health & wellness stipend.
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend.
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office.
• Family planning benefits.
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting.
• Flexible PTO policy plus 80 hours of sick time.
• 11 company-paid holidays.
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events.