Senior Product Designer — AI-Driven Design Systems Lead

CommBank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CommBank is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape staff-facing experiences, modernise a complex platform and build scalable design-system patterns that empower delivery teams.

You’ll work across design, product and engineering to deliver accessible, high-quality UX at scale, mentor a small team, and partner with leadership to drive pragmatic, impactful design decisions.

This role blends craft, systems thinking and AI-enabled tooling in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing complex digital products or platforms.
• Deep expertise building and evolving design systems in Figma.
• Technical fluency working with engineers and coded component libraries.
• Experience with design tokens, Storybook, Figma Dev Mode or similar tooling.
• Practical experience using AI in design and software-delivery workflows.
• Strong UI, interaction and information-architecture craft.
• Ability to influence delivery-focused stakeholders without relying on authority.
• Pragmatism in modernising legacy products incrementally.
• Strong communication, facilitation and relationship-building skills.
• Experience mentoring and developing other designers.
• A portfolio demonstrating design-system, platform and technical impact.

Responsibilities

• Shape platform UI, navigation and information architecture.
• Use and contribute to the shared staff design system.
• Build scalable Figma components, patterns, variables and libraries.
• Partner with engineers to translate design-system intent into code.
• Use AI tooling to accelerate design, prototyping and design-to-code workflows.
• Create pragmatic approaches for migrating legacy experiences to the design system.
• Make high-quality UX easier for delivery teams to adopt.
• Build trusted partnerships with Product and Technology leads.
• Improve design-to-development workflows, guidance and quality practices.
• Facilitate alignment across Design, Product and Engineering.
• Champion accessible, consistent and evidence-led design.

Skills

UI/UX design

Design systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Figma

Storybook

Figma Dev Mode

Design tokens

Job description

CommBank is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape staff-facing experiences, modernise a complex platform and build scalable design-system patterns that empower delivery teams.

You’ll work across design, product and engineering to deliver accessible, high-quality UX at scale, mentor a small team, and partner with leadership to drive pragmatic, impactful design decisions.

This role blends craft, systems thinking and AI-enabled tooling in a fast-paced environment.