Principal Product Designer (Design Systems)

Mable; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Power your career

Parental leave

Hybrid workplace

Flexi Leave Days

Floating public holiday

Reward and Recognition

Job summary

Mable is seeking a Principal Product Designer to advance our multi-brand design system across HomeMade and Mable, with hands-on ownership and decision authority. You’ll shape structure, tokens, components and AI tool integration, while collaborating with product designers and engineers to ensure consistency across web and mobile.

Remote from other Australian locations will be considered; most designers split time between Sydney or Melbourne offices and remote work.

Qualifications

• 8+ years as a product designer
• Portfolio showing systems thinking with reusable components
• Advanced Figma: components, variants, tokens
• Experience with multi-brand or multi-product design systems
• Experience with AI tools like Claude in design workflows
• Strong collaboration with engineering to ship components
• Solid understanding of accessibility standards and practical application
• Clear written communication to document decisions and guidelines
• Confidence in driving system direction and decisions
• Experience operating with autonomy and setting system-level direction

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the multi-brand design system across HomeMade and Mable
• Design and maintain tokens, components and patterns across brands, web and mobile
• Connect design system to AI tooling for reliable consumption by AI
• Audit component usage, flag inconsistencies, drive consolidation
• Write documentation and usage guidelines for designers and engineers
• Partner with engineers to keep design and code in sync
• Set governance to keep system consistent as teams contribute
• Lead the Design System Guild to drive shared ownership
• Champion accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA standards
• Advocate for design system value across the org and adoption
• Continuously improve the system based on feedback and AI workflows

Skills

Design system ownership

Systems thinking

Figma advanced

AI tooling in design

Cross-functional collaboration

Accessibility WCAG

Clear written communication

Autonomy

Decision making

Collaborate with engineering

Tools

Figma

Job description

HomeMade, Mable, Leap in! and Mable Direct are entities under the Attain Healthtech Group of companies. While our companies are diverse, three similarities bind us:

1. We exist to create lasting, positive change across the entire care and support sector - impacting more lives, elevating standards and shaping the future of care

2. We believe in technology as an enabler

3. We’re driven by helping customers attain better outcomes

This position is part of the Mable team.

About Mable

Mable is one of Australia's leading and fastest-growing healthtech platforms. As a purpose-driven company, we are where thousands of people with disability and older Australians have connected with independent support workers of their choosing and on terms that suit them.

With more than 25 million hours of support facilitated since 2014, it's no wonder we have been recognised on the AFR's Top 100, Deloitte Tech Fast 50, were previously awarded Australian Growth & Technology Growth Company of the Year.

By working at Mable, you will join a high productivity and dynamic team environment, leading to meaningful change in Australia's care and support sectors.

To find out more, visit https://mable.com.au/

About the role

We're looking for a Principal Product Designer to take our design system to its next stage across our multiple brands. This is a hands-on role with real ownership; you'll own the direction and be the final decision point for how the system scales across brands and connects into the AI tooling that's becoming core to how we design and build, thinking in systems that work for both designers and AI tools alike.

Most designers work partly in the Sydney or Melbourne Mable offices, and partly from home. Candidates who would work remotely from other Australian locations will be considered.

You'll work closely with our product designers across both HomeMade and Mable and our engineering teams. You'll also partner with our AI platform work to make sure the system is built in a way that AI tools can reliably consume and build from.

You will also be part of the Customer Experience team, working with and receiving support from design managers and other talented product designers.

What you'll do

• Own and evolve the multi-brand design system across HomeMade and Mable, making the calls on structure, priority and direction

• Design and maintain design tokens, components and patterns that scale consistently across both brands and across web and mobile

• Establish and evolve how our design system connects to AI tooling, including Claude and Claude Code, so that AI-assisted design and development can reliably use accurate, up-to-date system components

• Audit current component usage across both products, flag inconsistencies and drive consolidation where it makes sense

• Write clear documentation and usage guidelines that make the system easy to adopt, for both designers and engineers

• Partner closely with engineers to make sure design and code stay in sync, and that components are implemented and quality checked properly

• Set and uphold governance for the design system, so it stays consistent as more people contribute to and use it

• Lead the Design System Guild, a cross-functional group of product designers and engineers, to drive shared ownership and keep the system evolving with input from the people actually using it

• Champion accessibility as a baseline, designing and documenting to WCAG 2.2 AA standards

• Advocate for the design system's value across the org, and help other designers understand how to use and contribute to it well

• Continuously improve the system based on feedback, usage data and how AI-assisted workflows are actually being used in practice

• 8+ years as a product designer, with 4-5+ years specifically owning or heavily shaping a design system
• A portfolio that shows strong systems thinking, not just individual product design, and reusable components across multiple products
• Advanced Figma skills, including component libraries, variants, variables and design tokens
• Experience working with a multi-brand or multi-product design system
• Practical experience using AI tools like Claude in a design workflow, and genuine curiosity about how design systems and AI tooling should work together
• Strong collaboration skills with engineering, with real experience getting components built and shipped, not just designed
• Solid understanding of accessibility standards and how to apply them practically
• Clear written communication, you'll need to document decisions and guidelines that other people can actually follow
• Confidence making and owning decisions, this role needs someone who can drive the system forward, not just maintain what exists
• Demonstrated experience operating with a high degree of autonomy, setting direction and making system-level decisions

We’re powered by purpose

We’re Switched On

We know our customers because we listen and want to learn. We engage within the community and the sector and always act on insights.

We’re Bold

We’re ambitious and embrace creativity to solve challenges. We’re here to reshape the industry and back big ideas.

We’re One

We channel our passion into a positive environment. We welcome diversity and collaborate to make the most of our different skills and ways of thinking.

We’re Impactful

We work hard to deliver change. We innovate and move fast to make a difference in the sector and people’s lives.

Values we share as part of Attain Healthtech

Break New Ground

We simplify care with creativity and bold ideas.

Make It Matter

We put people at the centre and create impact that improves lives.

Own The Outcome

We aim high, deliver excellence and drive results that last.

Our benefits

Power your career

Learn from industry experts, experienced leaders, and on-the-job opportunities.

Access parental leave

Get 14 weeks of paid leave for primary carers and 6 weeks of paid leave for secondary carers plus superannuation.

Work with flexibility

We’re a hybrid workplace, balancing time in the office with remote work.

Flexi Leave Days

Get one extra paid leave day per quarter for what makes you happy.

Take a floating public holiday

Acknowledge a significant day your way with family and friends.

Be rewarded

Celebrate wins and recognise great performance with an easy and accessible Reward and Recognition program.

We are one

As an organisation, we celebrate our diversity and welcome all people, regardless of their family responsibilities, ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

If this role has stood out to you but you don’t feel like you ‘tick all the boxes,’ we strongly encourage you to apply nonetheless. We value diversity in experience, and you might just bring something we are looking for to our organisation!