Art Director, Product Design Systems - US Based Remote

Anywhere Real Estate; Buffalo (NY); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading real estate technology firm in Buffalo is seeking an Art Director to elevate the visual language of its digital products. This hands-on leadership position involves defining design standards, evolving the design system, and mentoring other designers. Ideal candidates have 8–12 years of experience in visual/UI design and a strong portfolio that showcases their design leadership. This role supports a culture of innovation and empowerment.

Benefits

Employee recognition programs

Health and wellness benefits

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in visual/UI design, art direction, or design systems in a product environment.
• Portfolio demonstrating visual design leadership in digital products.
• Expertise in typography, color, iconography, and visual design systems.

Responsibilities

• Set the visual quality bar across the product ecosystem.
• Evolve the design system to enable high-quality art direction.
• Lead creation and refinement of visual assets within product UI.

Skills

visual/UI design

art direction

design systems

mentoring

communication

Education

8–12 years of experience in visual/UI design

3–5+ years in a senior/lead role

Tools

Figma

Jira

Confluence

GitHub

Job description

Overview

Art Director, Product Design Systems

The Anywhere UX team is scaling quickly, and we’re looking for an Art Director, Product Design Systems to define and elevate the visual language of our digital products. In this role, you’ll guide the evolution of our design system (Bespoke) and set the creative standard for how our products look, feel, and connect with users.

You’ll lead the principles, assets, and system foundations that shape our UI — from typography, color, and layout to illustrations, iconography, and imagery. You’ll collaborate closely with design, engineering, and brand partners to balance cohesion and differentiation across our ecosystem, ensuring that our products are not only consistent, but compelling.

This is a hands-on leadership role for a designer who thrives at the intersection of craft, systems thinking, and cross-functional influence.

What you’ll do

• Set the visual quality bar across our product ecosystem, ensuring UI is polished, purposeful, and connected to our design language.

• Evolve Bespoke, our design system, to enable high-quality art direction and scalable UI foundations.

• Lead the creation and refinement of visual assets including illustrations, iconography, color, and imagery within product UI.

• Partner with Brand Studio to align product design with company brand expression, while maintaining a unified product experience.

• Mentor and inspire designers, raising the bar for craft, collaboration, and system thinking.

• Shape governance models that drive adoption and maintain high execution quality without slowing delivery.

• Advocate with cross-functional leaders on the impact of visual/UI design on usability, accessibility, and brand perception.

• Support strategic storytelling by designing clear, compelling presentations and visuals for team-wide and cross-functional communications.

• Experiment with emerging tools and technologies (including AI) to accelerate asset creation, documentation, and system management.

What you bring

• 8–12 years of experience in visual/UI design, art direction, or design systems in a product environment.

• 3–5+ years in a senior/lead role with experience mentoring or managing designers, strongly preferred.

• A portfolio demonstrating visual design leadership in digital products (UI, systems, creative direction).

• Expertise in typography, color, iconography, and visual design systems.

• Experience balancing brand alignment with product-specific differentiation.

• Proficiency with Figma and shared asset libraries.

• Familiarity with documentation tools (Zeroheight, Storybook) and collaboration platforms (Jira, Confluence, GitHub).

• Strong communication and storytelling skills; ability to influence partners and executives.

Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (http://www.anywhere.re/) (NYSE: HOUS) is moving real estate to what's next. Home to some of the most recognized brands in real estate — Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate, Century 21®, Coldwell Banker®, Coldwell Banker Commercial®, Corcoran®, ERA®, and Sotheby’s International Realty®, we fulfill our purpose to empower everyone's next move through our services, which include franchise, brokerage, relocation, and title and settlement businesses, as well as mortgage and title insurance underwriter minority owned joint ventures. Anywhere supports nearly 1 million home sale transactions annually and our portfolio of industry-leading brands turns houses into homes in more than 118 countries and territories across the world.

At Anywhere, we are empowering everyone’s next move – your career included. What differentiates us is our scale, expertise, network, and unique business model that positions us as a trusted advisor throughout every stage of the real estate transaction. We pursue talent – strategic thinkers who are eager to always find a better way, relentlessly focus on talent, obsess about growth, and achieve exceptional results. We value our people-first culture, which thrives on empowerment, innovation, and cross-company collaboration as we keep moving the world forward, together. Read more about our company culture and values in our annual Impact Report (https://anywhere.re/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2024-Impact-Report.pdf).

We are proud of our award-winning culture and are consistently recognized as an employer of choice by various organizations including:

• Great Place to Work

• Forbes World’s Best Employers

• Newsweek World’s Most Trustworthy Companies

• Ethisphere World’s Most Ethical Companies

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