Design Systems Product Designer - Scale UI, Define Strategy

Underdog: Verified engineers. Interview-ready. Searching confidentially. And companies apply to you; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 204,000 - 276,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical benefits

401(k) program

Commuter benefits

Unlimited PTO

Catered lunch five days a week

Snacks and coffee

Job summary

Underdog is seeking a Design System Product Designer to create, maintain, and scale the foundational UI building blocks that power the customer experience. This role defines the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the design system while partnering with engineering to ensure adoption and implementation quality.

You will own the design system, develop workflows with Figma libraries, documentation, and quality checks, and help shape design documentation and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in product design.
• Deep expertise in Figma, including component libraries, tokens, variants, and systematic file organization.
• A commitment to learning as AI changes UI/UX design.
• Proclivity for adopting AI tools in design workflow.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• Experience in fast-paced environments with multiple priorities and high expectations for craft.
• Portfolio showing scalable design patterns and cohesive experiences.

Responsibilities

• Creating, maintaining, and scaling component libraries, design tokens, interaction patterns, and accessibility standards.
• Defining and owning the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the design system.
• Partnering with engineering to ensure system adoption, alignment, and implementation quality.
• Developing workflows that improve designer-developer collaboration, including Figma libraries, documentation, and quality checks.
• Shaping internal best practices for design documentation, guidelines, and cross-team collaboration.
• Raising the bar for design craft and execution across the organization.

Skills

Product design

Design systems

AI in design

Documentation

Communication

Tools

Figma

Job description

Underdog is seeking a Design System Product Designer to create, maintain, and scale the foundational UI building blocks that power the customer experience. This role defines the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the design system while partnering with engineering to ensure adoption and implementation quality.

You will own the design system, develop workflows with Figma libraries, documentation, and quality checks, and help shape design documentation and cross-team collaboration.