Design Systems Lead & Strategy Architect — NYC Onsite

TempoAtlas; New York (NY); On-site; USD 210,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

401k match

Parental leave

Paid vacation

Commuter benefits

Lunches and snacks

Equipment & workspace

Job summary

BitGo is seeking a design leader who remains hands-on, mentors a senior design team, and sits beside the Chief Product Officer to shape business strategy. The role demands owning the design system end to end and guiding the team through discovery with product and engineering.

As a player-coach, you will manage and ship design surfaces, drive strategic impact, and elevate design within a regulated digital-asset platform. Expect ~50% IC work to start as the team scales.

Qualifications

• Experience leading design in complex domains (financial services or crypto)
• Hands-on in Figma and craft-focused
• Ability to ship design work today and critique craft

Responsibilities

• Own surfaces directly and ship them at the agreed quality bar
• Invest in each designer's growth and define the next level
• Amplify design's visibility and strategic impact in the company
• Join product and engineering at discovery and shape roadmaps
• Own the design system end-to-end: tokens, patterns, governance, adoption
• Shape and design seven product areas with shared primitives
• Establish UX and systems thinking as a company-wide practice
• Set processes to move fast without sacrificing quality (critique, docs, reviews)
• Understand technical constraints and trade-offs with engineering
• Be the face of design internally and externally

Skills

Design leadership

Figma

Mentoring designers

Systems thinking

Product strategy

Tools

Figma

Job description

BitGo is seeking a design leader who remains hands-on, mentors a senior design team, and sits beside the Chief Product Officer to shape business strategy. The role demands owning the design system end to end and guiding the team through discovery with product and engineering.

As a player-coach, you will manage and ship design surfaces, drive strategic impact, and elevate design within a regulated digital-asset platform. Expect ~50% IC work to start as the team scales.