Design Systems Lead — Staff Product Designer (Relocation & Visa)

Into Design Systems; Auckland; Remote; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Halter in Auckland, New Zealand HQ is seeking a Staff Product Designer to lead the design foundations across mobile and web and to build and maintain design systems with engineers. The role focuses on setting standards, crafting accessible visuals, and shaping system architecture in collaboration with engineering teams.

You will spend time with farmers and graziers in the field to ensure practical, scalable design and to translate field conditions into robust design patterns.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing digital products with focus on design systems.
• Exceptional visual craft across typography, layout, spacing, color, accessibility, interaction and motion.
• Proven experience shipping a design system with engineers.
• Knowledge of tokens and component libraries and Figma-to-code connection.
• Portfolio showing foundational systems work and high-craft experiences built with it.
• Conviction and the language to make your judgment explicit, teachable and useful to others.
• Track record of coaching other designers and building alignment.

Responsibilities

• Set, own and advance design foundations across mobile and web.
• Set the standard for craft and make that standard usable through principles, guidance and worked examples.
• Shape the technical architecture and system structure alongside engineers.
• Treat the system as a product: set its direction and prioritise what to build next based on what designers and engineers need.
• Give teams a clear point of view on which pattern to reach for and why.
• Turn field conditions into standards the system carries by default (legibility, target sizes, clarity at a glance).
• Work with teams to spot what’s working across new product surfaces and promote it into documented, reusable foundations.
• Decide what earns the right to be a pattern and what should be a considered one-off.

Skills

Design systems at scale

Visual craftsmanship

Shipping design system

Tokens and component libraries

Figma-to-code integration

Portfolio of systems work

Judgment communication

Coaching designers

Tools

Figma

Design systems tooling

Job description

Halter in Auckland, New Zealand HQ is seeking a Staff Product Designer to lead the design foundations across mobile and web and to build and maintain design systems with engineers. The role focuses on setting standards, crafting accessible visuals, and shaping system architecture in collaboration with engineering teams.

You will spend time with farmers and graziers in the field to ensure practical, scalable design and to translate field conditions into robust design patterns.